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January 06, 2022 By Laura LeBlanc Ixel Hernandez-Castro grew up next to a dairy farm near Fresno, California, where she remembers a plane would fly by on weekends and spray the fields surrounding her family home with pesticides.“They’d finish spraying, and we’d run outside to play,” said Hernandez-Castro, MPH, a doctoral student in epidemiology in…Continue Reading KSOM Newsroom: Household pesticide use harms infant gross motor development, study shows

December 04, 2021 By Cristine Hall Low-income Hispanic/Latina women who are exposed to higher levels of air pollution during mid-pregnancy are at greater risk of depression one year postpartum, according to a USC MADRES Center for Environmental Health Disparities study.The research, published recently in the journal Environmental Health, followed 180 women from early pregnancy to one year after…Continue Reading KSOM Newsroom: Air pollution exposure during pregnancy is linked with greater risk of depression among Latinas

August 06, 2021 The NIEHS-funded Maternal and Developmental Risks from Environmental and Social Stressors (MADRES) Center for Environmental Health Disparities has developed an interactive story map. It depicts how certain Los Angeles communities are faring during the COVID-19 pandemic. The map provides visualization of environmental health disparities along racial and ethnic lines, susceptibility, built environment, and COVID-19 spread….Continue Reading NIEHS Community Engagement: MADRES Story Map Depicts the Overlap of COVID-19 and Environmental Stressors

Partnerships for Environmental Public Health (PEPH) Newsletter by NIEHS Volume 11, Issue 8: September 2020 A new interactive story map developed by NIEHS-funded researchers sheds light on how certain Los Angeles communities are faring in the COVID-19 pandemic. By combining Census Bureau data and measures of pollution burden and population vulnerability, the tool visualizes the overlap between…Continue Reading Featured in NIEHS PEHP Newsletter: New Story Map Shows COVID-19 Disparities Along Racial and Ethnic Lines

Partnerships for Environmental Public Health (PEPH) Newsletter by NIEHS Volume 9, Issue 1: January 2018 A new internship program for undergraduate students is providing research and learning experiences for ethnic groups who are typically underrepresented in the environmental health sciences. The program is a joint effort between the Maternal and Developmental Risks from Environmental and Social…Continue Reading Featured in NIEHS PEHP Newsletter: Increasing Diversity in the Environmental Health Workforce