The Harvard Chan National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Center for Environmental Health is a coordinated set of resources and facilities supporting environmental health research and training activities throughout the greater Boston area. The center promotes integration between basic and applied environmental science, and fosters collaborations that cross departmental and institutional boundaries.
By pinpointing the link between arsenic exposure, folic acid, and spina bifida, research from Harvard Chan School’s Maitreyi Mazumdar is helping the government of Bangladesh take action to prevent the often disabling spinal condition.
Extreme heat may lead to more hospitalizations among adults living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, especially those from racial minorities, according to a new Harvard Chan School study.
This October, our Center partnered with the SALA Series to support a multi-sectoral summit: Better Health for All – Connecting Science, Business, and Communities for Change. The Summit built new…
In spring 2024, the Community Engagement Core of the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center provided a Community Action Fund (CAF) grant to the New England Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit, generally…
NIEHS Director Rick Woychik, PhD, visited the Chan School on September 9, 2024. Following meetings with faculty members, Woychik gave a lecture titled “Planning Future Directions for Environmental Health Sciences.”…
The Harvard Chan NIEHS Center has strong representation at the 36th Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE 2024). Faculty, affiliates, and trainees are facilitating sessions, leading workshops, speaking in symposia, and giving oral and poster presentations.
Harvard Chan welcomed 60+ participants from 4 countries and 22 states for a two-day Community Exposures and Health Boot Camp in August 2024. Led by Harvard’s Dr. Tamarra James-Todd and…
Harvard Chan NIEHS members Dr. Jin-Ah Park and Dr. Joanne E. Sordillo recently published findings in Allergy, “Transcriptomic profiles of well-differentiated airway epithelial cells in response to environmental triggers of…
The New York Times Magazine highlighted Center Deputy Director Dr. Tamarra James-Todd’s research into the negative health outcomes—cancer and adverse reproductive conditions—linked to ingredients in chemical hair relaxers and other hair products. These chemicals have caused harm to generations of Black women.
“Findings from an international collaborative study of uranium miners from France, the Czech Republic, Canada, Germany and the United States” Please join us for the Environmental Health in Action Colloquium…
