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PUBLIC HEALTH MATTERS

An Introduction, and a Challenge

health policy

Lower Access to Air Conditioning May Increase Need for Emergency Care for Wildfire Smoke Exposure

water contamination.

Beth Haley forages for mushrooms.
Alumni

A Clear Path through Murky Waters: Alum Finds Meaningful Career in Studying Water Contamination

June 28, 2024
Merrimack River. Credit: Merrimack River Watershed Council
water contamination

Sewage Overflows Linked to Increase in Gastrointestinal Illnesses

May 23, 2024
Girl drinking from tap
water pollutants

Massachusetts Drinking Water May Contain Unsafe Levels of Manganese

July 8, 2023
Water tap faucet with flowing contaminated muddy and dirty water in a white bathroom sink.
water contamination

Boil Water Alerts Linked to Increase in School Absences

May 26, 2023
flint

Five Years After Water Crisis, Nearly 1 in 4 Flint Residents Has PTSD

September 22, 2022
Awards

Student Receives Civic Research Innovation Prize from MetroLab Network

March 10, 2022
Chemical exposures

The Persistence of ‘Forever Chemicals’

March 26, 2021
A Potential Turning Point for the Environment
viewpoint

A Potential Turning Point for the Environment

November 4, 2020
A young Black woman drinking from a water bottle
prenatal exposure

DDT Was Banned Decades Ago. Why Is It Still Detectable in These Women?

May 6, 2020
New Bedford Harbor, with a "No Fishing" sign in the foreground
air pollutants

Potentially Harmful Air Contamination from New Bedford Harbor

December 5, 2019

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