Environmental & Public Health

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The climate crisis is making us sick. Doctors need better training to treat it.

Editor's note: This is an excerpt from an original article in the Grist Fix Solutions Lab by Sarah Hsu and Gaurab Basu. Read the full article here.
July 13, 2021
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Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast interviews Patterson on transportation justice

Dr. Regan Patterson discusses her research and advocacy for transportation reparations and justice. "You're starting to see this explicit link being made between state-sanctioned violence and transportation equity."
June 30, 2021
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Aaron Maruzzo

2021 Fellow
Aaron Maruzzo is a MPH graduate from the Environmental Health Sciences department at UC Berkeley School of Public Health. He joined UC Berkeley after three years of working as the Water Lab Analyst for the municipal water company in the U.S...
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Alicia Arrington

2021 Fellow
Alicia Arrington received her J.D. at the University of California at Berkeley Law School, where she pursued her interests at the intersections of land, housing, and environmental justice. She was the founder of the Free the Land Project as...
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Thomas Morales

2021 Fellow
Thomas Morales is pursuing his Master of Public Health in Environmental Sciences at San Diego State University. Thomas obtained his Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science at San Diego State University. While studying environmental...
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Sarah Hsu

2021 Fellow
Sarah Hsu is a primary care resident at the UCSF Internal Medicine Residency based at Zuckerberg San Francisco General. Prior to residency, she was a medical student at Brown University and a Master's student in Primary Care-Population...
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Timnit Kefela

2021 Fellow
Timnit Kefela is an environmental scientist, organizer and educator who seeks to better understand (micro)plastic pathways, fates and impacts in effort to inform and design liberatory infrastructural solutions for pollution mitigation and...
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Bradman authors report on methods to monitor PFAS in environment to protect public health

The report provides recommendations of standardized methods for sampling, extracting and analyzing PFAS in air, soil and dust with the goal of protecting public health in California.
May 26, 2021
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Vaquero receives Equal Justice Works Fellowship

Idalmis Vaquero will defend the environmental and housing rights of Black and Latinx families impacted by industrial lead contamination in East and Southeast Los Angeles.
May 26, 2021
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Bradman shows food dye linked to neurological childhood behavior in California EPA study

Asa Bradman contributed to a new report that examines the relationship between synthetic food dye — found in everything from juice to cupcakes — and child behavior.
May 4, 2021