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
News
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Better Health for All Summit
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…
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Community Engagement Core supports publication of coloring book for ‘budding eco-explorers’
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…
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NIEHS Director Rick Woychik Presents Strategic Plan Priorities
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.”…
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Harvard Chan NIEHS Center represented at ISEE
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.
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Environmental Justice Boot Camp trains 60+ participants on conducting EJ research
Harvard Chan welcomed 60+ participants from 4 countries and 22 states for a two-day Environmental Justice Boot Camp in August 2024. Led by Harvard’s Dr. Tamarra James-Todd and UW’s Dr….
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Center faculty release video on study showing environmental exposures trigger asthma exacerbations
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…
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The disturbing truth about hair relaxers
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.
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March 2024 Environmental Health in Action Colloquium Series with Dr. David Richardson
“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…
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New tougher U.S. air pollution standards shaped by Harvard Chan School research
Stricter new federal regulations on deadly fine particulate air pollution in the U.S. were announced on February 7—and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health research played a key role in the decision.
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Harvard launches two studies of Pilgrim nuclear plant health risks
Check out a recent interview with Dr. Petros Koutrakis and Jeannette Barnes, a reporter for Cape and Islands (CAI), regarding two new studies of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station.
