GC-CPEH Members reported that lessons from Hurricane Harvey accelerated and improved research response after an industrial fire in Deer Park, TX. In 2017, Hurricane Harvey affected more than 30,000 Texas residents and destroyed more than 200,000 homes. Following that experience,…
Read More Hurricane experience benefits later industrial fire research response
Over the past year and a half, physicians, scientists and public health officials have jumped into action to address the COVID-19 pandemic. In May, Baylor College of Medicine brought health experts from the U.S. and France together for the COVID-19…
Read More What has COVID-19 taught us about disaster research and prevention?
Drs. Cornelis (Kees) Elferink, GC-CPEH Co-Director, and John Prochaska, CEC LIT are co-authors on a recent article “Proximity to oil refineries and risk of cancer: A population-based analysis” that was featured by the Texas Standard (NPR show) on 12/3/2020 showing…
Dr. Margot Williams received her BS from Muskingum College in Ohio, then completed her PhD in the lab of Dr. Ann Sutherland at the University of Virginia where she studied mammalian development. She next made the switch to zebrafish during…
Read More 2020 Chi-Bin Chien Award Winner, Dr. Margot Williams, a GC-CPEH Pilot Project Awardee
Baylor College of Medicine has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund a new Maternal and Infant Environmental Health Riskscape (MIEHR) Research Center. Baylor will receive $7.1 million over five years and is one of only three sites…
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GC-CPEH Deputy Director, Dr. Elaine Symanski's Metal Air Pollution Partnership Solutions project was highlighted in the June 2020 Partnerships for Environmental Public Health (PEPH) Newsletter by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). Dr. Symanski with GC-CPEH members, Drs.…
GC-CPEH Director, Dr. Cheryl Walker’s recent study published in Nature Communications shows how an early life chemical exposure can permanently reprogram the liver epigenome to cause diet-triggered metabolic dysfunction later in life. “In our study, we found that even a…
Environmental Factor, NIEHS's award-winning online newsletter, featured the work of center members and their environmental health studies launched after Hurricane Harvey.“ It was an impressive display of the science efforts and collaborations that quickly came together in response to Hurricane Harvey,”…
GC-CPEH member, Dr. Farrah Kheradmand’s study raises health concerns about the use of electronic cigarettes. "The opposing views on the safety of e-cigarettes prompted one of my graduate students, Matthew Madison, to investigate the effects of chronic exposure to e-cigarette…
Read More Dr. Farrah Kheradmand’s Study Raises Health Concerns About the Use of E-cigarettes
KPRC NBC 2 Newscast: Harvey, 2 years later KHOU CBS 11 Newscast: Harvey 2 years later (This segment also aired in Tyler and Beaumont, TX) KTRH NewsRadio 740 Broadcast: Baylor College of Medicine hosts Harvey symposium KTRK ABC 13 Online: Stress and pesticides: Health consequences emerging 2 years…
