health – The JPB Environmental Health Fellows Program

December 8, 2016

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

March 26, 2021 JPB Fellow Marccus Hendrix is paving the way to equitable infrastructure reform
Locals can tell you exactly which streets need repaving, which sidewalks require fixing, which spots pool with rainwater after a…

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February 24, 2021 Toxic Metals in Nail Polishes, But Not on the Labels
A new School of Public Health study is the first to evaluate metals in the new generation of metallic nail…

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February 23, 2021 Black, Hispanic families hit hardest by dementia
It can begin with the occasional missed bill payment. An inability to remember names. Telling the same story repeatedly. There…

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February 23, 2021 Disasters: Deconstructed Podcast – “Infrastructure Justice” by Marccus Hendrink
Darien and Ksenia are joined by Dr. Marccus Hendricks, an Environmental Planning professor at the University of Maryland and Director…

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February 20, 2021 Texas’ blackouts may come at a steep cost
As the lights begin to turn back on after nearly a week of outages across Texas, residents who already struggled…

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