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Coastal hazards and the associated community exposure risks can develop when practitioners make decisions that optimize goals in isolation, without adequately considering cross-sector impacts, or without integrating stakeholder perspectives into the decision-making process. Due t...

Numerous research methods were used, with primary focus on using community-derived health and environmental data to explore and characterize tribal exposures to and health impacts from environmental contaminants or environmental changes. Of note are the focus on community-based p...

Coastal hazards and the associated community exposure risks can develop when practitioners make decisions that optimize goals in isolation, without adequately considering cross-sector impacts, or without integrating stakeholder perspectives into the decision-making process. Due t...

Floodplains perform several important ecosystem services, including storing water during precipitation events and reducing peak flows, thereby reducing flooding of adjacent communities. Understanding the relationship between flood inundation and floodplains is critical for ecosys...

Introduction. Polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) exposures have been associated with toxicant associated steatohepatitis (TASH) in animal models and suspected TASH in epidemiological studies including the Anniston Community Health Survey (ACHS). MicroRNAs (miRs) are non-coding RNAs t...

Formaldehyde and other carbonyl compounds are highly reactive, and multiple NAAQS exceedance studies have demonstrated them to be significant precursors of ozone and PM 2.5. In addition, formaldehyde is a key driver of hazardous air pollutant cancer risk nationwide. The EPA's Off...

Human biomonitoring is the foundation of environmental toxicology, community public health evaluation, pre-&shy;&#8208;clinical health effects assessments, pharmacological drug development and testing, and medical diagnostics. Within this framework, the intra-&shy;&#8208;class co...

Floodplains perform several important ecosystem services, including storing water during precipitation events and reducing peak flows, thus reducing flooding of downstream communities. Understanding the relationship between flood inundation and floodplains is critical for ecosyst...

Description: In this interactive session, attendees will learn about activities of the Brownfields &amp; Reuse Opportunity Working Network&rsquo;s (BROWN) Health Education Working Group. BROWN partners range from environmental professionals to public health officials to private s...

Toxicant-associated steatohepatitis (TASH) is a form of liver disease associated with both industrial [1] and environmental [2] chemical exposures. Like other forms of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD), TASH can contribute to systemic metabolic disease states and may prog...

Identifying communities vulnerable to adverse health effects from exposure to wildfire smoke may help prepare responses, increase the resilience to smoke and improve public health outcomes during smoke days. We developed a Community Health-Vulnerability Index (CHVI) based on fact...

Timely assessment of the aggregate health of small-area human populations is essential for guiding the optimal investment of resources needed for preventing, avoiding, controlling, or mitigating exposure risks, as well as for maintaining or promoting health. Seeking those interve...

The Proctor Creek neighborhood in Atlanta is a poor, mostly African American community plagued by flooding, derelict housing, mold, and pathogens in the creek. Tires found in the creek bear the mark of municipal service vehicles. The area is prey to extreme heat and environmenta...

Undertaking large-scale aquatic habitat restoration projects in prominent waterfront locations, such as city parks, provides an opportunity to both improve ecological integrity and enhance community well-being. However, to consider both opportunities simultaneously, a community-b...

11/21/2017 Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) will host a webinar and teleconference for LEO Network Participants (LEO is a network of local observers and topic experts who share knowledge about unusual animal, environment and weather events). With LEO you can connect...

BACKGROUND: Children born to parents with lower income and education are at risk for obesity and later-life risk of common chronic diseases, and epigenetics has been hypothesised to link these associations. However, epigenetic targets are unknown. We focus on a cluster of well­ c...

This study was conducted to derive receptor-specific outdoor exposure concentrations of total suspended particulate (TSP) and respirable (dae ≤1O µm) air manganese (air-Mn) for East Liverpool and Marietta (Ohio) in the absence of facility emissions data, but where long-term air m...

This report provides a summary of three of our research projects: 1) an evaluation of the quality of scientific evidence associating green spaces with health benefits, along with ensuing research in San Juan, Puerto Rico; 2) a Health Impact Assessment of a Long Island sewering pi...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency&rsquo;s (U.S. EPA) mission is to protect human health and the environment. Those not familiar with U.S. EPA&rsquo;s mission often do not realize that U.S. EPA is a public health agency. In this presentation, Dr. Danelle Lobdell will provid...

The Community model for near-PORT applications (C-PORT) is a screening tool with an intended purpose of calculating differences in annual averaged concentration patterns and relative contributions of various source categories over the spatial domain within about 10 km of the port...

The presentation describes a new community-scale tool called C-PORT to model emissions related to all port-related activities &ndash; including, but not limited to ships, trucks, cranes, etc. &ndash; and predict concentrations at fine spatial scales in the near-source environment...

Environmental Health Education (EHE) is most effective when it incorporates environmental science, risk education, and health education. When paired with the local knowledge of community members, EHE can promote health equity and community action, especially for socially disadvan...

Excessive heat in the summer months can be dangerous to human health and increases demand for water and electricity. Cities tend to experience higher temperatures than the surrounding natural area, a phenomenon known as an urban heat island (UHI). Trees are provisioners of ecosys...

Mitochondria are central regulators of energy homeostasis and play a pivotal role in mechanisms of cellular senescence and age-related neurodegenerative and metabolic disorders. However, mitochondrial bioenergetic parameters have not been systematically evaluated under identical ...

A new concept for exhaled breath analysis has emerged wherein groups, or even crowds of people are simultaneously sampled in enclosed environments to detect overall trends in their activities and recent exposures. The basic idea is to correlate the temporal profile of known breat...