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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 greater Boston area. The center promotes integration between basic and applied environmental science, and fosters collaborations that cross departmental and institutional boundaries.

Location

665 Huntington Ave.
Building 1-1402
Boston, MA 02115

News

  • November 2, 2021

    Meet Our Members: Peter James, ScD, MHS

    We’d like you to meet Peter James, ScD, MHS, assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health. Below, we ask Peter about his research on estimating the influence of spatial…

    Peter James
  • October 27, 2021

    Understanding the link between air pollution and dementia

    The Harvard Chan-NIEHS Center for Environmental Health is collaborating with Biogen to investigate the growing body of research that links air pollution and brain health. The Center is conducting a…

    Dementia brain model
  • October 5, 2021

    Tamarra James-Todd promoted to Associate Professor, Environmental Reproductive Epidemiology

    (Email sent on Oct. 5, 2021)  Dear Members of the Harvard Chan School Community: I am delighted to announce that Tamarra James-Todd has been promoted to Mark and Catherine Winkler…

    Tamarra James-Todd
  • October 3, 2021

    Joe Allen pens op-ed in the Atlantic about clean air in offices

    “Americans spend 90 percent of our lives indoors. You take 6,000 breaths in your workplace on an average day.” In an op-ed for The Atlantic Magazine, Harvard Chan School’s Joseph Allen makes the case for clean air in offices.

    Professor Joe Allen teaching students
  • September 22, 2021

    Meet Our Members: Wanda Phipatanakul, MD, MS

    We’d like you to meet Wanda Phipatanakul, MD, MS, director of the Division of Immunology Research Center at Boston Children’s Hospital and S. Jean Emans Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard…

    Wanda phipatanakul
  • September 18, 2021

    Peter James discusses the role nature plays in improving our mental and physical health on NPR

    Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Peter James speaks with Martha Bebinger, NPR Weekend Edition Saturday, about how trees could be a mental, physical, and climate change antidote.

    Peter James
  • September 9, 2021

    Mary Rice speaks on climate and health alongside Secretary John Kerry for Harvard Grand Rounds

    The Harvard Medical Grand Rounds, held Sept. 8, 2021, focused on: “Fossil Fuel Pollution and the Climate Crisis: Patients, Practice, and Policy.” HMD Assistant Professor of Medicine and Center Member Mary Rice, MD, MPH, was one of the speakers, alongside Secretary John Kerry, United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate.

    Mary Rice
  • September 9, 2021

    Jaime Hart receives 2021 ISEE Tony McMichael Mid-Career Award

    This award recognizes a mid-term career scientist for their scientific contributions to the field of environmental epidemiology as well as their commitment to, and demonstration of, exceptional mentoring. Related Topics…

  • August 20, 2021

    Meet our members: Chris Golden, MPH, PHD

    We’d like you to meet Assistant Professor of Nutritional and Planetary Health Chris Golden, MPH, PhD. Below, we ask Chris about his research working with populations in Madagascar and the South…

  • June 22, 2021

    Nancy Krieger appointed to UNESCO International Scientific Committee

    Nancy Krieger, professor of social epidemiology, was appointed in June as a member of the UNESCO International Scientific Committee for the Slave Route Project: Resistance, Liberty, Heritage, in recognition of her work on the consequences of racism and discrimination. She also was recognized by the American Journal of Epidemiology, which named her article “Cancer Stage at Diagnosis, Historical Redlining, and Current Neighborhood Characteristics: Breast, Cervical, Lung, and Colorectal Cancers, Massachusetts, 2001–2015” one of the 10 best of 2020.

    Nancy Krieger