Global Environmental Health Chat

In this episode we will hear from Katrina Korfmacher, Ph.D., and Christy Tyler, Ph.D., co-directors of the Lake Ontario Microplastics Center (LOMP) at the University of Rochester, jointly funded by NIEHS and the National Science Foundation. They will... more

To commemorate the program’s 10th anniversary this year, DR2 program lead Dr. Aubrey Miller discusses program hallmarks, successes, and goals.

In this episode, we will hear from Leticia Nogueira, the scientific director of Health Services Research at the American Cancer Society and an inaugural NIH Climate Change and Health Scholar.

In this podcast episode, we speak with Johnnye Lewis, Ph.D., a toxicologist at the University of New Mexico (UNM) and longtime director of its NIEHS-funded Metals Exposure and Toxicity Assessment on Tribal Lands in the Southwest (METALS) Superfund Re... more

In this episode, we will hear from Robbie M. Parks, Ph.D., an NIEHS grantee and an assistant professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University. Parks has studied the short- and long-term public health impacts of hurricanes and other t... more

In this podcast episode, we speak with Dr. Sameed Khatana, a cardiologist at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. We discuss the effects of extreme heat waves on th... more

Aquatic ecosystems are communities of plants or animals that live near water habitats such as lakes, ponds, rivers, oceans, or swamps. These ecosystems are beneficial to the environment providing drinking water, food sources, such as fish and oysters... more

Rainforests are highly beneficial to the environment providing cleaner air and the storage of carbon, but rainforests are under extreme threat from climate change, deforestation, and land-use changes from agricultural practices.