A new paper in Environmental Science & Technology Letters presents a model of “presumptive contamination” that identifies types of facilities that can be presumed to be…
View More PFAS Project Lab identifies over 50,000 US sites with likely PFAS contaminationFrom News@Northeastern: “Puerto Rico is home to more than 200 hazardous waste sites and particularly high levels of air pollution. Its preterm birth rate is…
View More Scholars’ ‘Flash Talks’ Explore Resilience, from Health to Media InnovationFrom 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 EWG: “The known extent of the contamination of U.S. communities with PFCs – highly fluorinated toxic chemicals, also known as PFASs, that have been linked…
View More Mapping a Contamination CrisisThe journals Environmental Science and Technology and Environmental Science and Technology Letters have just published a special virtual issue dedicated to poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs). This issue…
View More Environmental Science and Technology Publishes a Virtual Issue on PFASsFrom Toxic News: “Over the two-day Toxic Expertise annual workshop it was fascinating to hear about such a broad range of approaches and engagements with…
View More ‘Citizen Science, Pollution and Environmental Justice’: the 2017 Toxic Expertise annual workshopFrom 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 CRECE: “The goal of the presentation was to educate audience members about the effects environmental toxins can have on early childhood development (both pre-…
View More CRECE and PROTECT Members Conduct Training and Survey at Environmental Health Symposium for Speech-Language PathologistsToxic Expertise This international project includes SSEHRI director Phil Brown on its Advisory Board. We hope visitors to our website will explore the Toxic Expertise…
View More Toxic ExpertiseThis 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 Symposium