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.
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News
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Center co-hosts EJ Boot Camp focused on environmental health disparities
Our Center, along with affiliated NIEHS centers at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health and UCSF, hosted a virtual two-day boot camp in August that gathered researchers from across the country to discuss the foundations of environmental justice research, uncover the roots of environmental health disparities, and highlight real-world solutions. This session was co-directed by Dr. Tamarra James-Todd. The Center sponsored 12 students.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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…
