“‘Poor housing is the elephant in the asthma room and must be addressed in a deliberate and intentional manner to truly eliminate disparities in outcomes among adult patients with asthma.’” – Philly News
New project maps how green major cities are
“Which cities have the greenest streets?…Rating a huge number of street corners for the relative greenery of their appearance, Treepedia … is one of the most detailed catalogs of urban greenery available.” – City Lab
Hawaiian pesticide discussions heat up in the new year
“’There’s still zero transparency for the long-term cumulative impacts on various communities around the islands for what [pesticides are] being sprayed and any impact it may be having over the long term…and that’s something that we have a clear obligation above anything else to dive into, because it is health and safety and people have a right to know.’” – West Hawaii Today
Landfills or incineration – how do we deal with our garbage problem?
“As the [waste-to-energy] debate intensifies, experts on either side of the aisle can at least agree on one thing: it’s this mindfulness that’s missing from our trash strategy.” – Salon
New research highlights links between human health and Earth’s health
“Rather than trying to eliminate ecologies, we should try to understand and protect them, and to understand that their health is of pressing concern to our own.” – Anthropocene Magazine
Expansion of Toxic Waste Site Raises Controversy in Detroit
“The message was loud and clear: ‘Don’t ignore the wishes of residents and their elected officials: Stop poisoning Detroit.’” – Detroit Metro Times
How do health and well-being connect to bodily processes?
EH co-director Laura Kubzansky attended a symposium on the science of health and happiness Friday, commenting “the ironic thing about modern health care is that it isn’t really about health at all” – Harvard Gazette
“Ocean Robot” tech could lessen impacts of algae blooms
EH Fellow Stephanie Moore is part of a team deploying a “laboratory in a can” – an ocean robot that enables researches to gather information quickly in remote offshore locations to track harmful algae blooms. “The instrument will make it much easier to get crucial information about blooms and toxins [to the public] sooner.” –Seattle Times
Energy insecurity: the hidden and addressable hardship
Entering December, EH Fellow Diana Hernández’s emerging research on energy insecurity and the connection between household utilities’ affects on hardship and health becomes more pressing. “The physiological, behavioral, and psychological effects of what it’s like to struggle for sufficient household energy aren’t as well recognized by poverty researchers. ‘This expense and experience has largely been ignored, to the detriment of families dealing with this crisis every day’” – City Lab “Energy insecurity…
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“Why Bother? – Qualitative Research Methods in Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences”
Presentation by Madeleine K. Scammell, D.Sc. Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Boston University School of Public Health and JPB Environmental Health Fellow at Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health Boston University December 14, 2015 at 4 pm in NRPH B15 room