JPB Fellows Hector Olvera, Allison Appleton, Christina H. Fuller, Annie Belcourt and Co-Director Laura D. Kubzansky recently published a paper about the Integrated Socio-Enviornmental Model (ISEM) of health and well-being in Springer International Publishing’s journal “Current Environmental Health Reports.” Learn more about the publication.
Latest Article: A Collaboration Among Fellows
An Integrated Socio-Environmental Model of Health and Well-Being: a Conceptual Framework Exploring the Joint Contribution of Environmental and Social Exposures to Health and Disease Over the Life Span JPB Fellows Allison Appleton, Hector Olvera, Christina H. Fuller, and Annie Belcourt recently published a paper about the Integrated Socio-Enviornmental Model (ISEM) of health and well-being in Springer International Publishing’s journal “Current Environmental Health Reports.” Read more here.
Notorious Toms River Superfund site gets 5 more years of water testing
Dow Chemical is working with Suez Water to devise a groundwater testing procedure that will continue for at least the next five years. After that, the federal Environmental Protection Agency, which oversees Reich Farm, will decide if more testing is needed. Read more.
Citizen scientists are the new community activists
As the fight for environmental justice intensifies in the Washington area, a new breed of community activist has emerged: the citizen scientist. They are ordinary residents using a basic understanding of civics and science in service to the health of their communities. Read More
UTEP Welcomes Harvard Fellows
The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) hosted the JPB Environmental Health Fellows’ final workshop from March 12-15, 2018. The three-and-a-half year fellowship was established in 2014 with Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health to promote a new generation of environmental health scholars committed to comprehensive approaches to address health disparities in disadvantaged communities. Read more
Fractivism: Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds by Sara Wylie
JPB Fellow Sara Wylies latest book: Fractivism: Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds talks about the impact of fracking in the United States. In Fractivism she traces the history of fracking and the ways scientists and everyday people are coming together to hold accountable an industry that has managed to evade regulation. Read more.
The hidden health inequalities that American Indians and Alaskan Natives face
By JPB Fellow Annie Belcourt. I was an American Indian student pursuing a doctoral degree in clinical psychology in the 1990s, when I realized the stark contrast between my life experiences growing up on my home reservation and those of my non-Native peers. Read more.
Sara Wylie, PhD
Associate Professor of Anthropology Social Science and Environmental Health Research Institute Northeastern University s.wylie@northeastern.edu Fellowship Projects: Open Water Data-Community Visualization of Clean Water Act Violations Project / Citizen Science Research / Developing, Validating, and Distributing a Low Cost Tool for Community Mapping of Hydrogen Sulfide with Photographic Paper Study Fellowship Collaborations: Debts & Reciprocity vs. Deficits & Harms: Developing EJ Communication Tools to Catalyze Action / Exploring the Use of…
Chunrong Jia, PhD
Professor of Environmental Health Science Division of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Environmental Health School of Public Health University of Memphis cjia@memphis.edu Fellowship Projects: Energy, Environment and Health in Affordable Housing Development / Indoor VOC Exposure and Home Energy Insecurity in an Environmental Justice Community / The Role of Environmental Exposure Reduction (REER) in a Multicomponent Asthma Intervention Dr. Chunrong Jia is Professor of Environmental Health (EH) in University of Memphis School of…
Christina Fuller, SC.D.
Associate Professor College of Engineering University of Georgia Christina.Fuller@uga.edu “I am dedicated to a productive academic career in which my research takes a comprehensive approach to examining and understanding the multifaceted nature of environmental health disparities. Through my work in corporate, academic and community settings I have seen inequities in the burden of environmental hazards on minority and marginalized communities. The JPB Fellowship provides the opportunity to build my knowledge…