Archive: environmental health
4 Articles
- Environmental Health
- Food & Water
- Lucy Bowden
- Spring 2024
From Gas Chambers to Your Table: Organophosphate Pesticides are Deadly Killers
Lucy Bowden (COL ‘24) discusses the threat that organophosphate pesticides pose to public health in Bihar,. …
August 6, 2024
- Cecilia Cassidy
- Climate Change
- Environmental Health
- Rosemary Sokas
- Spring 2024
Jesuit Projects in Climate-Change-Affected Liberia
Professor Rosemary Sokas briefs Common Home on the partnerships between Jesuit organizations in the U.S and abroad in Liberia working to address climate change-induced.…
April 5, 2024
- Climate Change
- Environmental Health
- Fall 2022
- Interviews
- Sustainability
- Ursula Gately
Rising Risk of Extreme Heat on Health in the District
Have you wondered why the summer heat in DC has increased so much? Undergraduate student Ursula Gately (COL'23) investigates rising heat in the district and the governmental, as…
October 15, 2022
- Climate & Energy
- Environmental Health
- Fall 2022
Preparing for Climate Disasters
All sectors are–and will continue to be–increasingly affected by climate change. The medical field is no exception. Whether responding to patients adversely affected by…
October 2, 2022