Environmental & Public Health

Fellow Story

Reducing E-Waste: Manufacturing Electronics as if the Future Mattered

Innovations in technology have to date primarily been driven by consumer demand for smaller, lighter, and faster gadgets, especially those that are loaded with the latest features. As a society, we have benefited from technological advances that increase efficiency, add new communications capabilities, create life-saving devices, and more. However, there is a dark side to the electronics industry that remains hidden as we as consumers happily shop for our shiny new toys: waste.
May 13, 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

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

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
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
Fellow, Fellows Advisory Committee

Ruth Steiner

1993 Fellow
Ruth is an professor and Director of the Center for Health and the Built Environment in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning Department and an affiliate faculty in the Transportation Research Center and the School of Natural...
Fellow

Andrew Smith

1989 Fellow
Fellow, Trustee

Donna Vorhees

1992 Fellow
Donna Vorhees leads HEI Energy’s work in providing impartial science about potential community exposures and health effects associated with energy production, with an initial focus on unconventional oil and gas development. In this role...
Fellow

Mary Rothermich

1991 Fellow
Since June of 1999 I have been working in the lab of Derek Lovley at University of Massachusetts as a post-doc researcher. My work involves studying the microbial degradation of hydrocarbon contaminants in marine harbor sediments. These...