Environmental & Public Health

Leadership Grant Grant

Chemicals Policy and Green Chemistry Program Development, Year 1

To support Mike Wilson in his role as Co-Director of the Program in Green Chemistry and Chemicals Policy and to expand the role of labor and communities in supporting chemicals policy reform. Mike will continue to advance work on green...
March 31, 2010
Leadership Grant Grant

Clean and Just Solar Energy Initiative, Year 1

To hire Dustin Mulvaney as a consultant to research the occupational and end-of-life hazards from production and disposal of solar photovoltaic (solar pv) cells, with the goal of shaping public policy on the manufacture and disposal of...
March 31, 2010
Leadership Grant Grant

Clean and Just Solar Energy Initiative, Year 2

To build on the success of Dustin's first year researching the safety and sustainability of the solar photovoltaic industry, expanding the investigation of solar energy manufacturing and recycling and to make the information accessible to...
March 31, 2010
Leadership Grant Grant

Risks of Importing Live Animals as Pets, Year 1

To hire Kate Smith as Senior Research Scientist with the Consortium for Conservation Medicine (CCM), Wildlife Trust, to oversee three projects, all aimed at preventing negative outcomes associated with the importation of live animals into...
March 29, 2010
Leadership Grant Grant

Environmental Exposures and Children's Health

Guadalupe Chapa will work as a post-doc researcher serving on the field and research team of The Center for the Health Assessment of Mothers and Children of Salinas (CHAMACOS), a community-university partnership that investigates...
March 29, 2010
Fellow

Leigh Shemitz

1991 Fellow
Leigh has returned to school to pursue a PhD in ecology and environmental health at Yale F&ES. Her research focuses on assessing change in the environmental health of urban ecosytems over time. These studies build upon Leigh's earlier work...
Fellow

Helen Suh

1990 Fellow
Dr. Suh MacIntosh is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Chemistry and Exposure Assessment at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her research focuses on the characterization of particulate and other air pollutant exposures and their...
Fellow

Susan Proctor

1989 Fellow
Currently, she is Research Associate Professor of Neurology and of Environmental Health at Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health. Susan is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the...
Fellow

Nancy Steele

1993 Fellow
Dr. Nancy Steele focuses her work on the protection and conservation of land and water, striving always to have a direct positive impact on nature and humanity. She is a professional executive manager who has founded and led nonprofits and served on boards of directors. Endlessly curious, she applies a scientists mind to answering questions that result in turning data into actionable knowledge resulting in good policies and practices.
Fellow

Cynthia Lopez

1993 Fellow
While completing a Master's at UCLA, Cynthia served as principal investigator researching the effects of organophosphate exposure on the reproductive outcomes of farm workers. After completing a second Master's in International Relations...