Environmental & Public Health

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Vera on volunteer effort to save climate data removed by Trump administration

Lourdes Vera spoke to NPR about her work volunteering to preserve climate-related data and tools from agency websites before they are stripped by the Trump administration.
June 30, 2025
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Gill quoted on hazardous dust season hitting borderlands

Scientists say drought and climate change are driving the severe dust storms pummeling the border region of Chihuahua, New Mexico and Texas.
June 26, 2025
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Timothy Onuh

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Timothy Onuh researches innovative approaches to improve the removal efficiency of nanoparticles (an emerging contaminant) from wastewater systems and promote sustainable water treatment. He strives to integrate his research with policy advocacy, with the overarching goal of practically translating science and engineering principles into socially and environmentally responsible policies.
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Malika Kounkourou

2025 Fellow
Malika Kounkourou serves as a managing editor of the Harvard Environmental Law Review and is a research assistant at the Harvard Environmental and Energy Law Program. Her interests lie at the intersection of alternative dispute resolution systems, corporate accountability, and climate justice, with a focus on extractive industry governance.
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Hasibe Caballero-Gómez

2025 Fellow
Hasibe Caballero-Gómez is an environmental health scientist and community advocate. Driven by her lived experiences and a vision of equity, she combines research with grassroots engagement to create meaningful, inclusive solutions for environmental challenges.
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Kathryn Rodgers: RFK Jr.’s disinformation is a rallying cry for women in STEM

In this opinion piece, Kathryn argues that strong scientific research on women’s health is an antidote for conspiracy theories.
March 31, 2025
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Bradman explains FDA's Red Dye No. 3 ban

“Since some years ago, there have been concerns raised about potential cancer risks related to this particular food dye,” Bradman says in a California ABC10 video.
March 31, 2025
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Timnit Kefela: Putting communities at the heart of plastic pollution initiatives

From the production of plastics to their fates as waste or microplastics in the environment, marginalized communities are disproportionately impacted by them.
March 31, 2025
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Jade Johnson assesses public health impact of pollution crisis in Tijuana River

Jade Johnson was featured in a San Diego Union Tribune news article about a sewage pollution and monitoring crisis in the Tijuana River. Johnson is a researcher and project coordinator at SDSU Public Health. "We are conducting a...
December 17, 2024
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Chiang hired as San Francisco Senior Commercial Toxics Reduction Coordinator

After 18 years at the Center for Environmental Health, Sue Chiang started a new position with the San Francisco Environment Department as Senior Commercial Toxics Reduction Coordinator. Sue has worked throughout her career on reducing and...
September 16, 2024