Dorchester, MA- A community garden 15 years in the making celebrated a ribbon cutting in September. The newly finished garden and open space at the corner of Magnolia and Alexander Streets now includes an assortment of garden plots, places to sit, a small play area, a gathering space, water access for gardening, walking areas, and a community mural. Our Center partnered…
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I In April of this year, the Harvard Chan-NIEHS Center for Environmental Health hosted a screening of ‘Descendant,’ a Netflix documentary that follows descendants of survivors from the last known slave ship, the Clotilda. Notable panelists, including Jocelyn Davis and Veda Robbins, RN, who are direct descendants of the ship’s captives, discussed the film and expressed anticipation for future partnerships with Harvard on environmental…
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BOSTON, MA – Our Center recently awarded a $10,000 community action fund grant to Healthy Acadia, who will be partnering with MDI Biological Laboratory and the University of New England’s Center for Excellence in Aging and Health on a study to examine the link between Per- and Polyfluorinated Substances (PFAS) and older Mainers’ health. The Health Water/Healthy Aging PFAS Initiative is the first of its kind in examining the association…
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BOSTON, MA – Our Center has partnered with Biogen to award pilot project funding for a proposal that will investigate whether and how exposure to specific greenspaces may mitigate health inequities in the relationships between air pollution, extreme temperature events, and neurodegenerative diseases. “By 2050, Parkinson’s disease (PD) and Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) may impact 13 million aging Americans,” principal investigator Scott Delaney, ScD, JD, MPH, a research…
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More than 70 trainees, professors, community advocates, and folks with a variety of backgrounds came together on August 15th and 16th for an in-depth online boot camp on the theories and methods to study environmental health disparities and environmental justice (EJ). This boot camp was co-led by Dr. Tamarra James-Todd, an Associate Professor in the Departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and…
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This summer, our Center’s Community Engagement Core (CEC) lead a six-week program focusing on Environmental Health for high school seniors who are part of the Boston Area Health Education Center’s Summer Enrichment Program (BAHEC). BAHEC offers year-round programs aimed at academic enrichment, professional development, and health career exploration. The CEC’s program consisted of 3 overall themes, including: climate change and air pollution, personal care product safety, and environmental racism/justice. Student…
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The Mahalingaiah Lab, or M-Lab, at the Harvard School of Public Health and Boston’s Museum of Science, were awarded $40,000 from the NIEHS center at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to develop an exhibit about the menstrual cycle. The grant brought together the expertise of scientists, educators, and artists who worked together to create a fun animation about menstrual cycle anatomy and physiology. The goal of the animation…
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