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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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.
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New research: A benchmark dose analysis for maternal pregnancy urine-fluoride and IQ in children
Adjunct Professor of Environmental Health Philippe Grandjean and a team of researchers calculated benchmark dose (BMD) results based on the results from two North American prospective studies of prenatal fluoride exposure and childhood cognition. The manuscript was accepted in June last year, and the print version became available April 18, 2022 in Risk Analysis Volume 42, Issue 3, pp 439-449. The BMD results suggest that water fluoridation exceeds the exposure that causes a decline in IQ of at least 1 point.
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WBEZ Chicago/NPR: Harvard study says clean electricity will prevent deaths
Center member Jonathan Buonocore, research scientist at the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, speaks with NPR on how clean electricity will save lives.
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Harvard Chan School study shows negative impacts of burning natural gas and biomass have surpassed coal generation in many states
New inventory of air pollution impacts from stationary sources over past decade shows trend may continue. A new study finds that burning natural gas, biomass, and wood now have more negative health impacts than burning coal in many states, and is a trend that may continue. The study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health published in Environmental Research Letters is the first to provide an inventory of the health impacts of each type of fuel burned at stationary sources from 2008-2017, based on available data.
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Chemicals in hair products, making rent as a grad student, and more: A conversation with Dr. Tamarra James-Todd
Our Center’s Organic Chemicals Research Core Director Tamarra James-Todd, Mark and Catherine Winkler Assistant Professor of Environmental Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, discussed her background and research in an April 1, 2021, Q&A on the Environmental Health Defense Fund Health blog.
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The nexus of climate and health: Marc Weisskopf presents on air pollution and the brain
Center Director Marc Weisskopf delivered his presentation during a webinar (Feb 23-24, 2021) hosted by the Center for Global Health Delivery, the Belfer Center’s Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy…
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Center’s Jin-Ah Park helps investigate cellular host factors required for SARS-CoV-2 infection
The paper, titled “In well-differentiated primary human bronchial epithelial cells, TGF-β1 and TGF-β2 induce expression of furin,” was recently published by the American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology.
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Center Member Nancy Krieger leads geocoding COVID-19 and inequities analyses
Center Member Nancy Krieger and colleagues are utilizing their Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project to “document inequities in the population distribution of COVID-19.” They make methods, data, & code freely available for analyses.
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Vaping-induced acute lung injury
Read David Christiani’s editorial (+audio interview) in The New England Journal of Medicine on the epidemic of vaping by young people and related severe lung injuries.
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Center Director Marc Weisskopf delivers ISEE keynote lecture
Center Director Marc Weisskopf delivered the Keynote Lecture on “Air Pollution and the Brain” during the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) Annual Conference, held Aug. 25-28, 2019. Related Topics…
