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The Center for PFAS and Cancer (CPAC) Joint Virtual symposium aims to promote collaboration and connections among researchers, educators, partners, stakeholders, and communities within and beyond the Washington, D.C., catchment area, focusing on the critical issue of PFAS (per- a...

Objectives: California plans to substantially increase the use of prescribed fire to reduce risk of catastrophic wildfires. Although for a beneficial purpose, prescribed fire smoke may still pose a health concern, especially among sensitive populations. We sought to understand co...

Background: Associations between environmental polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) exposures and liver/metabolic diseases and epigenetic marks have previously been reported in the Anniston Community Health Survey (ACHS-I). Exposures to dioxin-like pollutants (e.g., non-ortho PCBs, PCD...

Background Hepatitis A virus (HAV) is a non-envelope, RNA virus that is transmitted through the fecal-oral route by direct contact or ingestion of contaminated food or water. HAV infections typically are diagnosed with the use of invasive and expensive serological assays. In...

This presentation provides an overview of community-based air pollution research for members of the ACRS subcommittee, an interagency workgroup of federal air pollution and community health researchers. Most workgroup members are scientists who are experts in air pollutant measur...

Background/Aims: Native American tribes and Alaska Native Villages (NAT/ANV) have been and continue to be disproportionately burdened by cumulative environmental injustices. In recent years, scholars have highlighted the need to examine cumulative environmental factors on health ...

Enteric disease remains one of the most common concerns for public health. Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) receive domestic wastewater from sewer catchments and represent a snapshot of the enteric diseases that are circulating within the serving population, mirroring communit...

The poster presentation is a brief description of the development and use of the saliva antibody test. Use of the saliva test has afforded the ability to measure immunoprevalence, incident infections (immunoconversions), asymptomatic infections, and co-infections in the populatio...

Executive Orders (EO) 13985 and 14008 were issued by the Biden administration in 2021 to support racial and environmental justice for underserved communities and address climate change. Both EOs prompted action throughout the federal government to address health inequities stemmi...

• Mobile app concept: Current tools used by professionals who provide home visit services to families (e.g., environmental health practitioners, health educators, community health workers) are cumbersome and limited in scope. These tools provide information focused on one he...

Visualizing Ecosystem Land Management Assessments (VELMA) is an ecohydrology model being leveraged in a recently-initiated effort to identify practical, proactive watershed restoration strategies that can be initiated now to lessen long-term impacts of climate change on Puget Sou...

Visualizing Ecosystem Land Management Assessments (VELMA) is an ecohydrology model being leveraged in a recently initiated effort to identify practical, proactive watershed restoration strategies that can be initiated now to lessen long-term impacts of climate change on Puget Sou...

This abstract does not reflect EPA policy. Wildfire smoke impacts air quality and adversely impacts public health. Led by researchers at the U.S. EPA, Smoke Sense is a citizen science research initiative that aims to improve public health risk communication and reduce the negativ...

Health Impact Assessment (HIA) provides methods for considering community environmental and public health during brownfields and land revitalization projects. This presentation draws from a number of known concerns in Rockford and applies HIA health pathways to identify potential...

Ortho-substituted PCB exposures have been associated with liver necrosis and circulating microRNAs (miRs) in the Anniston Community Health Survey (ACHS) (PMID:29684222, 34989596). Dioxin-like molecules activate the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) and have been associated with NAF...

An important goal in revitalizing brownfield sites is to reduce environmental and community health hazards at contaminated sites and support sustainable and efficient redevelopment opportunities. New approaches are creating opportunities to enhance the benefits of cleanups. As cl...

Describes examples of working with environmentally burdened, economically distressed areas. Examples show the integration of regulatory and non-regulatory methods for addressing environmental issues within communities. The synopsis helps to identify techniques and resources for w...

BOSC presentation slides for SHC 10.2.

Objective(s) This study explored the feasibility, acceptability, preliminary impact, and functionality of two risk reduction mobile application (app) interventions on asthma outcomes as compared to a control arm during wildfire season. Design Three-arm, 8-week randomized clinic...

Associations between ortho- PCB exposures, NAFLD, and microRNAs (miRs) were previously reported in the Anniston Community Health Survey (ACHS-I). Here, we determine relationships between liver toxicity biomarkers, including miRs, and dioxin-like molecules (e.g., non-ortho PCBs, P...

Background: Polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) exposures have been associated with liver injury in human cohorts, and steatohepatitis with liver necrosis in model systems. MicroRNAs (miRs) maintain cellular homeostasis and may regulate the response to environmental stress. Objec...

Identification of disease through biomarkers in accessible biofluids, including microRNAs (miRs) – small single-stranded non-coding RNA – remains a promising field of research, especially in liver disease where biopsy is the gold standard. Multiple methods are availab...

Synopsis The US EPA’s Sustainable and Healthy Communities (SHC) National Research Program has provided $2 million research grants to fund four academic research projects through the Science-To-Achieve-Results(STAR) to carry out community-based research that will foster bett...

Normal breathing for healthy humans is taken for granted; it occurs without conscious effort using ambient (1-atmosphere) pressure with 21% oxygen concentration.  The body automatically adjusts for stress, exercise, altitude, and mild disease by increasing volume and frequen...

The U.S. EPA conducted a health impact assessment (HIA) of proposed sanitary code changes regarding individual sewerage systems (ISS) in Suffolk County, New York. ISS, including onsite sewage disposal systems (OSDS; i.e., cesspools) and septic tank-leaching pool systems (“convent...