Environmental & Public Health

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Cleaning the Beaches of Mahahual

The Los Angeles Times also ran an excellent story on this subject: "An exquisite Mexico beach, cursed by plastic" (January 27. 2012)
September 28, 2012
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Morello-Frosch on lower birthweights of babies born following 2003 wildfires

Babies born to women pregnant during wildfires in Southern California in 2003 tended to have slightly lower birthweights than babies born to women pregnant in the same area at other times, according to a recently released study out of UC Berkeley.
September 24, 2012
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Chiang on how IT departments can make their work greener

Sue Chiang, pollution prevention co-director of the Oakland, California-based Center for Environmental Health, spoke with CIO Journal about how IT departments can make their work greener. Read the full story
August 6, 2012
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Vorhees on assessing health risks in Nigeria

"I've worked on contaminated sites for more than 20 years and I've never seen anything on the scale that I saw in Nigeria," said Donna Vorhees, an adjunct assistant professor of environmental health at BUSPH. "They're not just exposed – these people are actually living in petroleum." Read the full story
July 19, 2012
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Bradman presentation on pesticides and children's health

July 11, 2012
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Priya Ganguli

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Priya Ganguli is an Assistant Professor at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) in the Department of Geological Sciences and the new CSUN Water Science Program. She studies the transport and fate of contaminants in aquatic...
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Miriam Torres

2012 Fellow
Miriam Torres is an environmental justice advocate, urban planner, collaborator, and mother. Currently, Miriam is a Principal Environmental Planner in the Planning and Climate Protection Division of the Bay Area Air Quality Management...
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Jennifer Gaddis

2012 Fellow
Jennifer is an assistant professor in the department of Civil Society and Community Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She earned her PhD from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies in 2014. While at Yale, Jennifer...
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Ramanathan's company wins Gates Foundation grant to develop cellphone sensor monitoring for vaccines

Nexleaf Analytics announced today that it is a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Nithya Ramanathan, President, will pursue an innovative global health and development research project, titled “ColdTrace: Cellphone Sensor for Cold Chain Monitoring.”
May 31, 2012
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Newberry wrote about the Blue Ledge Mine's facelift

Joe Creek has been a biological desert for decades. This small and unassuming stream flows north out of the Red Buttes Wilderness in Siskiyou County, California, and passes below the abandoned Blue Ledge Mine, after which its otherwise pristine water turns into a toxic brine as acidic as vinegar where only algae survives.
May 22, 2012