“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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Fellow Publications
Madeleine Scammell Peer-Reviewed Manuscripts: Engaging Communities in Research on Cumulative Risk and Social Stress-Environment Interactions: Lessons Learned from EPA’s STAR Program Payne-Sturges,Devon C., Korfmacher, Katrina Smith, Cory-Slechta,Deborah A., Jimenez, Maria, Symanski, Elaine, Carr Shmool, Jessie L., Dotson-Newman, Ogonnaya, Clougherty, Jane E., French, Robert , Levy, Jonathan I., Laumbach, Robert, Rodgers, Kathryn, Bongiovanni, Roseann and Scammell, Madeleine K. Engaging Communities in Research on Cumulative Risk and Social Stress-Environment Interactions: Lessons Learned from EPA’s…
“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
“Legionnaires’ deaths are just a symptom” EH Fellow Diana Hernández in the New York Daily News
“Water-cooling towers infected with the Legionella bacteria are not the fundamental cause of death among residents of the South Bronx. In the latest outbreak, the main culprits are the underlying health conditions that have made so many Bronxites more vulnerable to disease and death than other New Yorkers.” Read the full article HERE
Kofi Berko, PhD
Senior Environmental Scientist Policy & Standard Division Office of Lead Hazard Control & Healthy Homes U.S. Dept. of Housing & Urban Development J.Kofi.Berko@HUD.gov J. Kofi Berko, Jr is an environmental scientist with the Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development headquarters in Washington DC. He develops Notice of Fund Availability (NOFA) for healthy homes and lead technical studies, manages the…