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Flint’s water crisis ‘infuriating’ given knowledge about lead poisoning
January 26, 2016 -- Harvard Chan School’s Philippe Grandjean, an expert in how environmental pollution impairs brain development, says that Flint, Michigan’s water crisis could have been prevented, given the United States’ long experience with lead contamination—and how…
Hydroelectric energy could increase harmful pollutant in Arctic
Concentrations of methylmercury — a neurotoxicant that can accumulate in fish — have been rising in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions due to melting sea ice. A new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers…
Federal government calls for lowering fluoride levels in drinking water
For the first time in over five decades, the federal government has lowered the recommended level of fluoride in U.S. community drinking water. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released its updated Public Health Service recommendations…
As fish farms proliferate, diseases do too
June 26, 2014 — Aquaculture has become a booming industry in Chile, with salmon and other fish farmed in floating enclosures along the South Pacific coast. But as farmers densely pack these pens to meet demand, diseases can…
High school students gain insight into public health careers
May 13, 2014 — Don’t take your toilet and clean drinking water for granted. In many parts of the world, good sanitation systems don’t exist and the consequences—such as deadly outbreaks of waterborne infectious diseases—can be devastating, emergency…
Improving the pollution-mortality link
Harvard, MIT researchers show the need for an improved approach to measuring pollution’s effects on human health For immediate release: Thursday, April 17, 2014 Boston, MA – As the nation celebrates the 45th Earth Day on Tuesday, April…
Harvard professor wins ‘Nobel Prize of water’
For immediate release: Friday, March 21, 2014 Cambridge, MA – A Harvard professor who has made a career of tackling water insecurity challenges around the world will receive the Stockholm Water Prize, known informally as the "Nobel Prize…
Deadly environments
[Fall 2013 Centennial issue] On a October afternoon in 1948, daylight barely trickled into the storefronts of Donora, Pennsylvania. Stagnant weather had trapped a noxious black cloud of emissions from nearby steel and zinc plants above the town,…
A mother's crusade for clean water
[Fall 2013 Centennial issue] In 1972, Anne Anderson’s life changed forever. Her 3-year-old son Jimmy, the youngest of her three children, was diagnosed with leukemia—and other children who lived nearby were suffering from leukemia, too. “Everywhere I went—to…
Engineering clean water
[Fall 2013 Centennial issue] When sanitary engineer Gordon Fair joined the faculty of Harvard School of Public Health in 1919, one fact seemed certain: Water could sustain life, but in many cases, it could also take it away.…
