Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health
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 Boston area. The center promotes integration between basic and applied environmental science, and fosters collaborations that cross departmental and institutional boundaries.
665 Huntington Ave.
Building 1-1402
Boston, MA 02115
Colloquium Series Speakers and Recordings
The Harvard Chan NIEHS Center holds a monthly lecture series with environmental health thought leaders from around the world.
Context matters when it comes to addressing environmental health challenges in LMICs
Oct 3, 2024 | Adetoun Mustafa, PhD, MPH, ISEEF | Lead City University, Nigeria
Planning future directions for environmental health sciences
Sept 9, 2024 | Rick Woychik, PhD | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Community-driven research on environmental injustice, energy and health in southern California
May 8, 2024 | Jill Johnston, PhD | University of Southern California
Findings from an international collaborative study of uranium miners from France, the Czech Republic, Canada, Germany, and the United States
Mar 13, 2024 | David Richardson, PhD | University of California, Irvine
Microbes and social equity: What is it and how do we do it?
May 10, 2023 | Suzanne Ishaq, PhD, | University of Maine
Thinking structurally about structural environmental racism: Lead as a case study
Mar 8, 2023 | Jessica Wolpaw Reyes, PhD | Amherst College
Building resilience to extreme heat: Strategies for adapting to a warming world
Feb 8, 2023 | Greg Wellenius, ScD | Boston University
Climate and justice: The EPA's action plan
Dec 14, 2022 | David Cash, PhD | USEPA
Evolving understanding of the impact of e-cigarette use on airway and systemic inflammation
Nov 9, 2022 | Laura Crotty Alexander, MD | UC San Diego
Investigating PFAS contamination in the Cape Fear River Basin of North Carolina: the GenX Exposure Study
Oct 12, 2022 | Jane Hoppin, ScD | North Carolina State University
Environmental health at the intersection of research and policy
Sept 14, 2022 | Natasha DeJarnett, PhD, MHS, BCES | University of Louisville
Social determinants of health as targets of precision medicine
May 11, 2022 | Ken Olden, PhD | retired USEPA, NIEHS
The role of implementation science in environmental public health
April 13, 2022 | Lindsey Martin, PhD | Health Science Administrator at NIEHS
Examining sensitivity to air pollution through electronic health records and epigenetics
Mar 9, 2022 | Cavin Ward-Caviness, PhD | Computational Biologist at the USEPA
The social cost of water pollution
Feb 9, 2022 | Catherine Kling, PhD | Professor of Applied Economics and Policy at Cornell University, Faculty Director at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future
Nourishing futures: Rethinking agriculture in unpredictable environments
Jan 12, 2022 | Tracey Heatherington, PhD | Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of British Columbia
Navigating social conflicts related to environmental health: Tools from the philosophy of science
Dec 8, 2021 | Kevin Elliott, PhD | Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University
Climate change and health and precision environmental health: Emerging new areas of focus for NIEHS
Nov 10, 2021 | Rick Woychik, PhD | Director of NIEHS
Introducing planetary health with some case studies of research in the field
Oct 20, 2021 | Samuel Myers, MD, MPH | Director of the Planetary Health Alliance
The Arnold Arboretum: The magic and meaning of a garden of trees
Sept 8, 2021 | William (Ned) Friedman, PhD | Director of the Arnold Arboretum
Causal modeling to identify the effects of air pollution on health
May 12, 2021 | Joel Schwartz, PhD | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
From the cell to the street: Research and policy strategies to address structural determinants of environmental health
April 14, 2021 | Rachel Morello-Frosch, PhD, MPH | UC Berkeley
Understanding and addressing structural racism and health inequities: The 'sleep exposome across the life course' example
Mar 10, 2021 | Chandra Jackson, PhD, MS | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
The outcry for social, racial, and environmental justice: Can science and community-engaged research answer the call?
Feb 10, 2021 | Sacoby Wilson, PhD | University of Maryland School of Public Health
What do anti-racist exposure science and risk assessment look like?
Jan 13, 2021 | Jonathan Levy, ScD | Boston University School of Public Health
Social stressors and susceptibility to multiple pollutants in cardiovascular risk
Dec 12, 2020 | Jane Clougherty, ScD, MSc | Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health
Integrating intersectionality into the exposome paradigm
Nov 10, 2020 | Ami Zota, ScD | Washington University Milken School of Public Health
Race, health, and the environment: Contemporary issues and community-based solutions
Oct 14, 2020 | Diana Hernández, PhD | Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health