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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Racial, ethnic minorities and low-income groups in U.S. exposed to higher levels of air pollution
Certain groups in the U.S.—Blacks, Asians, Hispanics, Latinos, and low-income populations—are being exposed to higher levels of dangerous fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) than other groups, according to new research from Harvard…
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Center Members featured in NIEHS 2021 Papers of the Year
Of 3,942 publications by NIEHS researchers and grantees in 2021, institute leaders selected 35 as Papers of the Year.
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Meet Our Members: Tamarra James-Todd, PhD, MPH
We’d like you to meet Tamarra James-Todd, Mark and Catherine Winkler Associate Professor of Environmental Reproductive Epidemiology in in the Department of Environmental Health. Below, we ask Tamarra about her…
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Environmental Health Disparities: An Overview
Our Center partnered with EH student Carolina Mendonça to produce this short video that gives an overview of environmental health disparities. References Transcript Health disparities are differences in the patterns…
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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…
