A recent paper published by SSEHRI members Vivian Underhill, Grace Poudrier, and Sara Wylie, titled “Outcomes of the Halliburton Loophole: Chemicals regulated by the Safe…
View More SSEHRI Article on Fracking’s Halliburton Loophole Featured in Above the FoldFrom Thomson Reuters Foundation News: “Sharon Harlan, a professor of health sciences and sociology at Northeastern University in Boston, says she and colleagues have discovered…
View More Extreme heat – an “unseen threat” – burns U.S. urban poorFrom the NIEHS Partnerships in Environmental Public Health: “‘The institute has helped shift the nature of environmental health research at Northeastern,’ Brown said. ‘It has really…
View More Phil Brown, Ph.D. – Understanding Community Awareness and Actions on Environmental Health IssuesFrom Environmental Health News: “New EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt made his first address on Feb. 21 to the agency he’ll now run. And it was what…
View More “De-coding Pruitt”, By Phil Brown, Sara Wylie, Christopher SellersFrom PROTECT: “On Monday, July 18th, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Director Dr. Linda Birnbaum visited Northeastern University. Northeastern has been working in…
View More NIEHS Director Visits Northeastern UniversityFrom Burlington Free Press: “Lake Champlain is the source of drinking water for tens of thousands of people in the Burlington area. Scientists say the risk to human…
View More Pharmaceuticals Present in Burlington WastewaterThis event brought together scholars, advocacy leaders, government agency representatives and community-based organizations working to understand the environment’s role in reproductive health, and advocating for…
View More December 11, 2015 – Reproductive Health and the Environment SymposiumFrom news@Northeastern: “Improving the well-being of mothers, infants, and children is one of the nation’s most pressing public health concerns.” Read more
View More New Grant Puts Northeastern at Forefront of Solving Health Challenges for Women, ChildrenFrom PROTECT: “Dr. Phil Brown, Director of the Research Translation Core and Co-Director of the Community Engagement Core, has received a highly competitive T32 training grant from National…
View More Phil Brown wins NIEHS Training Grant for Transdisciplinary Training at the Intersection of Environmental Health and Social Science
From PROTECT: “On May 21-22, 2015, the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute (SSEHRI), in partnership with the Puerto Rico Testsite for Exploring Contamination…
View More Landmark Conference on Social Science-Environmental Health Collaborations