Archive: environmental health

• Children’s Health and Environment Center Receives Renewed Funding

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: children's health, environmental health, Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• Exposure to Environmental PCBs Impairs Brain Function in Mice

  CHICAGO (October 22, 2019) — Human-made toxic chemicals that linger indefinitely in the environment disrupt the performance of critical helper cells in the mouse brain, leading to impaired function over long-term exposures, say neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center. Their study, believed to be the first to test polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in astrocytes — cells […]

  Category: News Release Tags: brain, environmental health, environmental toxins, neuroscience, PCBs

• Research In A Minute: Laura Anderko, PhD, RN

  (April 26, 2019) — Laura Anderko, PhD, RN, holds the Robert and Kathleen Scanlon Chair in Values Based Health Care at Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies. She is a professor and director of the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment (MACCHE) and a scholar in the fields of epidemiology, public […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: environmental health, health advocacy, public health, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• Georgetown Scholar Available to Discuss WHO Report on Health and Environmental Impacts

  WASHINGTON — Anticipating the World Health Organization’s report on health and environmental impacts (expected March 15), Georgetown professor Laura Anderko, PhD, RN, points out that environmental harms unfairly impact the most vulnerable people in the world.

  Category: News Release Tags: climate change, environmental health