Please visit our Youtube Channel for a larger selection of videos from our P30 Center. We have highlighted a few recent video projects below.
Mayah’s LotOur Community Engagement Core (CEC) partnered with stakeholder advisory board member Rebecca Bratspies of CUNY Law School’s Center for Urban Environmental Reform (CUER) to produce a short animated film based on Mayah’s Lot, an environmental justice themed graphic novel. The story follows a young hero, Mayah, who takes action to prevent the dumping of toxic waste in her neighborhood.
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Tooth-matrix Biomarkers to Reconstruct Critical Periods of Brain PlasticityManish Arora, BDS, MPH, PhD, Director of Exposure Biology at the Lautenberg Lab and Hirofumi Morishita, MD, PhD, from the Department of Psychiatry propose that teeth are windows into the human brain and can uncover aspects of brain development previously hidden from researchers.
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Environmental Defense Fund Study Finds Lead in Baby Food–Dr. Maida Galvez Weighs InDr. Maida Galvez, MD, MPH and Tom Neltner, JD, Chemicals Policy Director for the Environmental Defense Fund discuss a study which discovered that roughly 20 percent of baby food samples were found to contain lead. The study also found that more than 1 million children consume more lead than FDA’s limit. Eliminating lead in food would save society more than $27 billion annually in total lifetime earnings from saved IQ points. |
Spotlight on Emerging Science: Dr. Alison SandersWe are excited to launch our first Emerging Science video, highlighting Dr. Alison Sanders’ recent work on epigenetics, prenatal exposures, and preterm birth. A press release describing this research is available here, and you can find two publications on PubMed here and here. |
ABC’s The Chew Interviews Dr. Galvez on School Lunches
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Food for Thought SymposiumDid you miss our February, 2016 Winter Symposium? A highlights video is now available, and full footage from the event is on Youtube as well! Watch to learn about fish consumption during pregnancy, peanut allergy, organic and GMO foods, and more. |
Regional Asthma SummitOn November 20, 2015, public health advocates, medical professionals, government representatives, and community members came together for the Region 2 Asthma Summit, hosted at Mount Sinai. In addition to our highlights video, full footage of each speaker is available on our Youtube channel. For additional information, photos, conference materials, and more, please visit our event page. |
Environmental ChampionsPeggy Shepard, Executive Director of WE ACT and COEC Stakeholder Advisory Board Member, was interviewed by activist/journalist Stacy Parker LeMelle and medical students about the environmental justice movement, current successes and challenges, and her personal journey. |
P30 Center Welcome VideoOur NIEHS P30 Core Center was launched in 2014. We invite you to learn about our environmental health research and community-based work by watching this short video. |