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Environmental Factor

Environmental Factor

Your Online Source for NIEHS News

March 2024

A worker participates in the cleanup after the Feb. 3 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.

Responding to the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment

President visits Ohio and announces six NIEHS grants to study health effects; NIEHS supports NASEM workshop to hear community concerns.

Oral histories shed light on environmental injustice in Louisiana

Matilda Odera

NIEHS-funded researchers interviewed residents in Colfax to map historical environmental health effects of a thermal treatment plant nearby.

NIEHS catalyzes research collaborations in India

From left to right: Sri Nadadur, Ph.D., U.S. Ambassador Eric Garcetti, Rick Woychik, Ph.D., and Genessa Giorgi, Health Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi.

Institute leaders traveled to India to share knowledge and expertise for evaluating how high air pollution and exposures affect health.

Trevor Archer, Ph.D.
Epigenomics and epitranscriptomics front and center at Council

Omics approaches to capture environmental influences on DNA and RNA, environmental justice wins, and more discussed during winter meeting.
Julieta Lischinsky, Ph.D., right, and Rajula Elango, Ph.D., left
Two tenure-track researchers join NIEHS

Rajula Alleva Elango, Ph.D., and Julieta Lischinsky, Ph.D., share details about their scientific research, professional backgrounds, and more.
Fingers with microplastics on them
Call for applications about microscopic plastics, health effects

NIEHS seeks to promote research exploring the health effects of microplastics and nanoplastics.
Nicholas Spada, Ph.D.
Scientific Journeys: Using AI to track a major source of pollution

Nicholas Spada, Ph.D., discussed his path to uncover how artificial intelligence can pinpoint the effects of coal trains on air quality.
CAFÉ Research Coordinating Center wheel: C equals Convene, A equals Accelerate, F equals Foster, E equals Expand
NIH Climate Change and Health Coordinating Center hosts first conference

More than 900 participants gathered virtually to help build a global community of practice.
NIH Director Monica M. Bertagnolli, M.D.
NIH endorses recommendations on use of non-animal methods

NIEHS office plays a key role in advancing new biomedical research approaches.

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Society of Toxicology, EHP Editors’ Choice Collection, NIH Director’s Seminar, and George Lucier.

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