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