The new health director, a local doctor and professor, says she has work to do to get up to speed on several pressing issues, including coronavirus and air quality.
Dr. Nadine Burke Harris has spent much of her career alerting the medical community to health damage that adverse childhood experiences can wreak. Now she aims to protect and heal California's kids.
African-Americans are three times more likely to die from asthma as whites. In Philadelphia and elsewhere, how can outcomes improve with changes to housing quality and pollution control?
Farmers say proposed changes in the state’s swine waste management system permit causes undue burden. Environmentalists say lagoons & spray fields must go.
Schoolchildren across the US are plagued by air pollution that's linked to multiple brain-related problems, with black, Hispanic and low-income students most likely to be exposed to harmful pollutants at school, scientists and educators have warned.
Black women and infants in Oakland are experiencing negative health outcomes at much higher rates than women of other races. Here's why–and what's being done about it.
Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) refers to knowledge of the relationships between people and the natural environment that has been passed down for thousands of years.
Lawmakers voted to block federal plans to incinerate trees and brush, citing health concerns in a population recovering from hurricanes. Now it's up to the governor.
Health disparities exist between all types of demographic groups, with many contributing factors such as ethnicity, income, education and where you live.
The COVID-19 pandemic is bringing environmental destruction and the deterioration of social and cultural systems into sharp focus. But we can learn from this.
EHN is teaming up with The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health to bring you the voices of next generation environmental health leaders
Big-picture thinker Nate Hagens on the opportunities and constraints we face confronting coronavirus. His advice: Find your better self and play a role.
