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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CEC teaches high school seniors about Environmental Health
This summer, our Center’s Community Engagement Core (CEC) lead a six-week program focusing on Environmental Health for high school seniors who are part of the Boston Area Health Education Center’s…
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Podcast: Director Marc Weisskopf discusses environmental risk factors in ALS
Director Marc Weisskopf chats with Dr. Richard Bedlack, professor of Neurology at Duke University, and Dr. Nadia Sethi, ALS TDI Director of Community Outreach and Engagement, about the role environmental risk factors could play in ALS on the CReAte Author Series podcast, Episode 5.
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Animated Exhibit about the Menstrual Cycle Now Up at Museum of Science
The Mahalingaiah Lab, or M-Lab, at the Harvard School of Public Health and Boston’s Museum of Science, were awarded $40,000 from the NIEHS Center at Harvard T.H. Chan School of…
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Meet Our Members: Hui Hu, PhD
This month, we chat with Hui Hu, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Associate Epidemiologist in the Channing Division of Network Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital….
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New study: Mapping emergency department asthma visits to identify poor-quality housing in New Haven, CT
A new study published in The Lancet Planetary Health shows that dangerous housing conditions can be detected anywhere in New Haven, CYT by analyzing who shows up in the emergey room with asthma. This study, authored by Adam Haber, Dr. Elizabeth Samuels and others, received Pilot Project funding and analytical support from our P30 Center.
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New study: Racial disparities in traffic fatalities much wider than previously known
When accounting for miles traveled during biking, walking, or driving, Black and Hispanic Americans experience higher motor vehicle-related death rates than White Americans or Asian Americans, according to a new…
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Joe Allen pens op-ed in Washington Post: ‘No school should have to close due to extreme heat’
Associate Professor and Director of the Healthy Buildings program Joseph G. Allen discusses the imperative to improve ventilation in schools, not just to prevent the spread of diseases like COVID-19 but also because of the rising threat of extreme heat, which too many schools are not prepared for.
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New study: Childhood asthma incidence, early and persistent wheeze, and neighborhood socioeconomic factors in the ECHO/CREW Consortium
This study, published in JAMA Pediatrics, found that neighborhood socioeconomic disparities were associated with childhood asthma and wheeze. Black and Hispanic children in all neighborhoods had higher asthma risk compared with White children.
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Meet Our Members: Shruthi Mahalingaiah, MD, MS
This month, we ask Assistant Professor of Environmental, Reproductive, and Women’s Health Dr. Shruthi Mahalingaiah about her research, academic journey, and career. What research are you currently working on? I am…
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Solar lighting intervention reduces indoor air pollution in Uganda
This trial, funded initially by a flash funding grant awarded at our 2016 Center retreat, has produced two papers – one of which has been highlighted in the May NIEHS Environmental Factor Newsletter as a paper of the month. The study found that a solar lighting intervention reduced exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and black carbon in rural Uganda. This is the first randomized study to examine whether solar lighting displaces fuel-based options and reduces exposure to harmful substances.
