In memoriam: Ying-Ying Meng, 68, scholar of environmental health
Ying-Ying Meng, director of research at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and whose work focused on the causes...
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Environmental Factor – February 2024: Grantees create framework to report back environmental health results
NIEHS-funded researchers have created a new framework designed to help scientists report back study findings about potential exposures to participants....
Webinar: Human Health and ICN-4. Towards the Regulation of Plastic Pollution and its Importance for Human and Environmental Health / April 16, 2024 – 12:00pm (ET) – PAHO/WHO
ContextThe urgency of addressing plastic pollution is recognized by global authorities at different levels. In March 2022, at the fifth...
Pesticides: Chemicals of Concern for Human and Environmental Health and Justice
The combination of toxic pollution, climate change and biodiversity loss are putting social and economic well-being at risk. One of...
Researchers are listening in on insects to better gauge environmental health
"Insects rule the world," says Figueroa—and they can be identified by their distinctive sounds. Credit: Paul Wright Recent research led...
Mapping the environmental factors that influence health in neighbourhoods
HealthyPlan.City is an interactive mapping tool that shows environmental inequities affecting vulnerable populations in Canadian cities. The impacts of climate...
Environmental Factor – April 2024: Fellows challenged to enhance science communication skills
The NIEHS Office of Fellows’ Career Development (OFCD) hosted its annual Three-Minute Communication Challenge March 15 with a dozen predoctoral...
Environmental Factor – April 2024: NIEHS Partnerships for Environmental Public Health reinvigorates network
The Partnerships for Environmental Public Health (PEPH) network meeting Feb. 20-22 brought together NIEHS-funded grantees, community leaders, and NIEHS staff...
Plastics: Human Health and Environmental Justice Considerations
CAPE approaches environmental issues through a lens of the interconnectedness of things – sometimes referred to as a planetary health...
