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Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health
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Populations to pathways to prevention: Environmental health science to empower action. Learn more: hsph.me/niehs

We are an NIEHS-funded P30 Center
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Our fall 2025 newsletter is out! We're highlighting community education about PFAS 'forever chemicals,' seminars, new working groups, and the 2025 EHSCC Annual Meeting! Read more: hsph.me/NIEHSnews
The Harvard Chan NIEHS Center delegation to the EHSCC 2025 Annual Meeting in front of the Harvard poster.
November 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Join us Wednesday, November 12, at 1 pm ET, for a @hsphniehsctr.bsky.social and @harvardenvhealth.bsky.social seminar with Dr. Will Mair @willmair.bsky.social on Metabolic flexibility and healthy aging. In-person and virtual! Visit hsph.me/niehs-seminar for more info and Zoom registration.
Lecture graphic with headshot of Dr. William Mair and title of lecture: Metabolic flexibility and healthy aging.
November 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Join us tomorrow, October 22, at 1 pm ET for a Harvard Chan NIEHS Center Member Research Presentation with @penggao.bsky.social on 'Mapping the human exposome.' In-person and virtual! Visit hsph.me/NIEHS-CRP for more info and Zoom registration.
Center Member Research Presentation with Peng Gao, PhD, graphic, titled Mapping the human exposome: From population pattern to cellular resolution.
October 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Join us tomorrow, October 8, for a Harvard Chan NIEHS Center Member Research Presentation with Dr. JP Onnela. In-person and virtual! Visit hsph.me/NIEHS-CRP for more info and Zoom registration. @harvardenvhealth.bsky.social
Center Member Research Presentation graphic with JP Onnela's photo and presentation title: digital phenotyping.
October 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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The September newsletter is out! Read about our recent Center retreat, honoring CEC Director of Community Engagement Ann Backus, new research findings, and upcoming events: hsph.me/NIEHSnews
Harvard Chan NIEHS Center retreat attendees visit the Arnold Arboretum's solar meadow.
September 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Join us tomorrow, September 10, at 1 pm ET, for a @hsphniehsctr.bsky.social and @harvardenvhealth.bsky.social seminar with Dr. Caroline Buckee of @harvardepi.bsky.social. In-person and virtual! Visit hsph.me/niehs-seminar for more info and Zoom registration.
Caroline Buckee lecture image: The role of translational global health research in apocalyptic times.
September 9, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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The Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health is home to over 80 scientists who are actively working to identify and reduce environmental contributors to chronic disease burdening millions of Americans. Read more about our impact: hsph.me/NIEHS-Impact
Image of the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center impact document 'Trailblazers in Chronic Disease Prevention'
August 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Join us this Wednesday, June 11, for a @hsphniehsctr.bsky.social and @harvardenvhealth.bsky.social seminar with Dr. Raanan Raz of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In-person and virtual! Visit hsph.me/niehs-seminar for more info and Zoom registration.
Photo of Raanan Raz and lecture title: The seasonal factor in studies of temperature and pregnancy outcomes.
June 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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The May newsletter is out! We're celebrating the graduation of our student community engagement employee and sharing new pilot research on why flight attendants face higher risk for certain cancers. Also, scholarships for Community Exposures and Health Training! Read more: hsph.me/NIEHSnews
Ben Weitz, recent MS graduate and community engagement core student worker, looks at a bag of cayenne pepper with Mary Ann Nelson, president of the Mission Hill Health Movement.
June 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Registration is open for our virtual Community Exposures and Health Training August 12-13! @cupublichealth.bsky.social, @uwsph.bsky.social and @hsph.harvard.edu team with experts to teach concepts for conducting environmental health research. Scholarships & early-bird rates: hsph.me/NIEHS-CEH
Community exposures and health training logo.
May 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Join us Wednesday, May 14, for a @hsphniehsctr.bsky.social and @harvardenvhealth.bsky.social seminar with Dr. Zorana Jovanovic Anderson of the University of Copenhagen. In-person and virtual! Visit hsph.me/niehs-seminar for more info and Zoom registration.
Health effects of air pollution in the Danish Nurse Cohort and Danish Nationwide Administrative Cohort: An overview with Zorana Jovanovic Andersen, PhD, of the University of Copenhagen.
May 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Read about Center events and updates in our April newsletter! We supported cutting-edge research and community engagement by promoting lead exposure awareness and hosting seminars on topics from brain organoids to extreme weather's impact on mental health. Read more: hsph.me/NIEHSnews
A young participant plants lettuce seeds in lead-free potting soil at the Family Fun and Disability Awareness Fair.
April 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Join us this Wednesday, April 23, for a Harvard Chan NIEHS Center Member Research Presentation with Dr. Sonia Hernández-Díaz and Dr. Amruta Nori-Sarma (@anorisarma.bsky.social). In-person and virtual! Visit hsph.me/NIEHS-CRP for more info and Zoom registration. @harvardenvhealth.bsky.social
Center Member Research Presentation with Sonia Hernandez-Diaz and Amruta Nori-Sarma. Wednesday, April 23, 1-2 pm, HSPH Bldg. 1, 1302 or Zoom. Topics: Environmental exposures and health care claims and Extreme weather impacts on mental health.
April 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Join us Wednesday, April 9, for a @hsphniehsctr.bsky.social and @harvardenvhealth.bsky.social seminar with Dr. Luke P. Lee of HMS (@harvardmed.bsky.social) and BWH (@mgbresearch.bsky.social). In-person and virtual! Visit hsph.me/niehs-seminar for more info and Zoom registration.
Luke P Lee seminar on Brain Organoid MAP for Environmental Health
April 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Our spring 2025 newsletter is out! Read about how a center pilot led to the passage of health policy resolutions in Bangladesh, a community health and wellness summit in Hyde Park, and our new Complex Mixtures Working Group! Read more at hsph.me/NIEHSnews.
At the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center table, EH students and research assistants demonstrate how to make a natural DIY foot scrub.
March 31, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Join us next Tuesday, March 25, for a @hsphniehsctr.bsky.social and @harvardenvhealth.bsky.social seminar with Dr. Melissa Furlong of the University of Arizona. In-person and virtual! Visit hsph.me/niehs-seminar for more info and Zoom registration.
Melissa Furlong, PhD, event graphic for "Integrating big data across state-level health databases to evaluate ambient heat, pesticide exposures, and ADHD."
March 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Join us on Wednesday, February 26, for a Harvard Chan NIEHS Center Member Research Presentation with Ronnie Levin, MA, and Maitreyi Mazumdar, MD, MPH. In-person and virtual! Visit hsph.me/NIEHS-CRP for more info and Zoom registration. @bostonchildrens.bsky.social @harvardenvhealth.bsky.social
Center Member Research Presentation with Ronnie Levin, MA, on "Don't undervalue the goods: Monetizing health endpoints" and Maitreyi Mazumdar, MD, MPH, on "Arsenic, spina bifida, and folic acid in Bangladesh: Translation from animal models to humans to public health policy."
February 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Tomorrow, February 12! Join us at 1 pm ET for a
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seminar with Dr. Kelly Wright of Cedars-Sinai. In-person and virtual! Visit hsph.me/niehs-seminar for more info and Zoom registration.
Climate change begins in the OR: Our unsustainable future in healthcare with Kelly N. Wright, MD, FACOG, FACS. Director, Division of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery and Associate Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cedars-Sinai. Sponsored by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Department of Environmental Health and the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health
February 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Join us next Wednesday, February 12, for a
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@harvardenvhealth.bsky.social seminar with Dr. Kelly Wright of Cedars-Sinai. In-person and virtual! Visit hsph.me/niehs-seminar for more info and Zoom registration.
Seminar graphic for Climate change begins in the OR: Our unsustainable future in healthcare with Dr. Kelly Wright of Cedars-Sinai, showing the seminar title, her photograph, and logos of Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health and Department of Environmental Health
February 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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@harvardenvhealth.bsky.social is hiring! Join us as Director of the JBL Center for Radiation Sciences (full professor). More information: loom.ly/SD2Imp8.
Join our team at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health graphic with a megaphone and words 'join our team!'
January 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Join us on Wednesday, January 22, for a Harvard Chan NIEHS Center Member Research Presentation with
Dr. Su Chu and Dr. Katie Tomsho. In-person and virtual! Visit hsph.me/NIEHS-CRP for more info and Zoom registration.
January 17, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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@hsphniehsctr.bsky.social Member and @harvardcchange.bsky.social Director Dr. Mary Rice @maryrice-lungdr.bsky.social will be speaking at the UC Davis Environmental Health Sciences Center's Science Seminar on January 21, 3-4 pm ET (12-1 pm PT). Join us on Zoom!
UC Davis Science Seminary with Dr. Mary Rice
January 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Check out our November/December 2024 newsletter featuring articles about our retreat, new members, publications, and CEC activities: hsph.me/NIEHSnews!
Harvard Chan NIEHS Center newsletter header for November and December 2025 showing the director's welcome and a photo of the November retreat
January 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM