The NIH panel on AoC-EJ led by Lariah Edwards, PhD Max Aung, PhD, MPH Yoshira Ornelas Van Horne, PhD was featured in this month's NIEHS Environmental Factor newsletter- check it out here: factor.niehs.nih.gov/2024/4/communi… Great work to our leadership team!

Hot Off the Press📠: “…Planning policy, practice, and implementation, over time, perpetrate #slowviolence through urban form… [creating] a community's vulnerable predisposition to #disaster !”

🚨Read more from the Stormwater Infrastructure Resilience & Justice Lab in our latest manuscript here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1ipql7t2zZHC…

It is important to further understand how #energyburden is connected to #publichealth . In this IJERPH paper w/ Dorothy Daley & #JohnPierce , we find significant relationships that should shape our policy prescriptions for households and communities. mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/2…

⁦#WIVB⁩, thank you for the coverage on this very important topic of environmental racism in my hometown, Buffalo, NY.

#SayNoToTheTunnel #HumboldtParkway #EnvironmentalRacism
⁦UMD Public Health⁩ ⁦UMD Research⁩ ⁦Univ. of Maryland⁩ ⁦The JPB Environmental Health Fellowship Program⁩

I’m so excited about the latest publication of the Stormwater Infrastructure Resilience & Justice Lab! We put together a framework that integrates Slow Violence and Social Vulneravility to Disasters. In the paper, we discuss the interconnects of the concepts in Texas and Maryland!

See more: authors.elsevier.com/c/1ipql7t2zZHC…

NEW COMMENTARY: Indoor Temperature and Energy Insecurity: Implications for Prenatal Health Disparities in Extreme Heat Events ➡️ ow.ly/3FCy50QMQBv Gabriella Meltzer Dr. Diana Hernández Blair J. Wylie ColumbiaPublicHealth julie herbstman

#ICYMI ...NEW RESEARCH: Federal Housing Assistance and Blood Lead Levels in a Nationally Representative U.S. Sample Age 6 and Older: NHANES, 1999-2018 ➡️ ow.ly/Pztz50R2g1f ICRHPS GW EOH Department UMN School of Public Health ColumbiaPublicHealth MyDzung Chu, PhD, MSPH Andrew Fenelon Gary Adamkiewicz Ami Zota

thanks Jessica Kutz & 19thnews for the chance to share our recent findings re: lower blood levels in low-income persons with govt. housing assistance programs vs. those waiting to get in

Excited to share my lab’s Stormwater Infrastructure Resilience & Justice Lab latest manuscript, “Slow Violence to Disasters: Exploring racialized topographies & contextualizing social vulnerability to flood & other environmental risks” led by our dual degree masters students, Asia Jones!👏🏾

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Thanks Environmental Health News for covering our recent paper! Ami Zota Gary Adamkiewicz Andrew Fenelon
**Federal housing programs linked to lower levels of lead exposure** ehn.org/federal-housin…

19thnews highlight of our recent paper

'Tighter regulations are reducing the risk of lead exposure in public housing'
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Ami Zota Gary Adamkiewicz Andrew Fenelon

New Study Alert! Perceived childhood neighborhood safety impacts sleep health in African American women across their lifespan. 🛌💤

Don't miss the findings on how early-life environments shape adult sleep patterns.
#SleepHealth #NeighborhoodSafety #Research

❤️Thankful to this team and the Natural Hazards Center for believing in our vision for this ongoing partnership and co-creation process (since 2021) in Puerto Rico.

More soon! 🤓

Excited about a handful of papers slated for this year out of the Stormwater Infrastructure Resilience & Justice Lab! Kicking it off with a piece that one of my Black Woman dual degree masters students took the first pen on where we are making a small contribution to rewriting the narrative on #SocialVulnerability . 1/

Must read this great work led by MyDzung Chu, PhD, MSPH !!

NEW: Chu et al. report that current HUD housing assistance recipients had much lower average blood lead than eligible individuals not waiting for assistance, pointing to the importance of social safety nets for housing equity ➡️ ow.ly/ZvNi50QSnUc

#ColorOfWater member, Marccus D. Hendricks, on the new National Climate Assessment: '...This ‘Social Systems and Justice’ chapter...shows we’re recognizing at the highest level that environmental justice is a critical part of climate change.'

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New research emphasizes federal housing assistance's role in improving affordability and crucially, health & safety standards 👇

“Living in federally-supported housing—especially public housing—limited opportunities for residents’ exposure to lead' MyDzung Chu, PhD, MSPH Tufts Medical Center

Very excited that our latest paper is out, which was led by MyDzung Chu, a formidable scientist and rising EHJ star! Check out our findings below