Aesop, Analysis, Rigor and Replication
The story “Aesop, Analysis, Rigor, and Replication” centers on the theme of the importance of methodological rigor and replicability in scientific research. Through the correspondence between Dr. Donatello Tartaruga and Dr. Peter Hare, it explores the contrasting approaches to scientific inquiry and the consequences of prioritizing novelty and quantity of data over thoroughness and reliability.
HEALS Pilot Grants Program, Steered by New Director, Marks First Decade
This year, the Center on Health and Environment Across the LifeSpan (HEALS) Pilot Projects Program marks its ten-year anniversary. The Program bears a robust track record of providing seed funding for groundbreaking research that has identified key environmental drivers of human health.
Listen: Dr. Rosalind Wright featured on OpenMind podcast
Dr. Wright joined Corey Powell, Co-Editor in Chief on the OpenMind podcast for an in-depth discussion, unravelling how everyday elements like air pollution, dietary habits, and emotional experiences create a “toxic soup” that can affect cognitive functions from infancy to old age.
HEALS Invites 2024 Pilot Project Applications
Mount Sinai Center on Health and Environment Across the LifeSpan (HEALS) is pleased to announce its 16th call for pilot grant proposals. The Center’s aim is to foster innovative research and multidisciplinary collaborations in the field of environmental health sciences. This funding opportunity invites researchers from diverse disciplines to submit proposals for pilot projects that address critical environmental health issues and contribute to the advancement of our understanding of environmental exposures and their impacts on human health.
Institute Highlighted on SOT TV
The Society of Toxicology’s annual meeting features Institute for Climate Change, Environmental Health, and Exposomics on SOT TV.
2023 Awarded Pilot Proposal: Exposure to Artificial Light at Night and Sleep Disruption in Adolescents from Mexico City
2023 Awarded Pilot Proposal: Community-Led Air Quality Monitoring for Environmental Justice and Public Health in the Lower East Side
2023 Awarded Pilot Proposal: Impact of Prenatal PFAS Exposure on the Placental Transcriptome and Fetal Growth
2023 Awarded Pilot Proposal: BREATHE with Bomba: Building Resilience through Environmental Awareness and Tradition-based Health Education
2023 Awarded Pilot Proposals: Exposure to Noise, Metals, and Air Pollutants and Child Development in Kigali, Rwanda
Mount Sinai Establishes Department of Public Health
Rosalind J. Wright, MD, MPH, appointed inaugural Dean for Public Health and Chair of the new Department of Public Health to spearhead a state-of-the-art curriculum in public health research, education, and practice that will systematically integrate with medicine, population health, global health, neurosciences, environmental medicine, data science and Artificial Intelligence (AI) disciplines.
Mount Sinai Experts Support Communities by Advocating for Natural Playgrounds and Fields over Hazardous Artificial Turf Surfaces
“We know that chemicals are present that wouldn’t be allowed in products for children,” says Sarah Evans, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
2024 Exposome Day
The 2024 Exposome Day webinar explores environmental risk factors and postpartum depression.
Special Grand Rounds for Black History Month: Robert Bullard Tribute Video and USA Exposome Symposium Talk
Community Mapping Workshop
Meta-data, meta-fiction, meta-music, meta-everything
Metadata—it is commonly defined as data about data, but like other “meta” examples that’s too basic and doesn’t tell the whole story. In fact, sometimes a variable can serve as “data” to predict an outcome, and in other cases the same variable is used as “metadata”.
Healthy World, Healthy You
The third volume of “Healthy World, Healthy You” highlights community gardens and nutrition. Isabella and Joel take their friends along for the latest (and tastiest!) adventure – joining the local community garden food program.
Community Partner Highlight: Futures Ignite
Drs. Maida Galvez, Nancy Sloan, and Sofia Curdumi Pendley participated in the Bronx IN-Tech Academy Careers Day hosted by HEALS community partner Futures Ignite where they shared information about their career paths in public health and medicine with middle and high schoolers.
EMPH Hosts Second Annual Memorial Lecture in Honor of Dr. Barbara Brenner with Panel of Community Partners
Symposium on Children’s Health, Environmental Justice, and the Exposome (Jan 22-24)
This is the eighth exposome symposium organized by the Mount Sinai Institute for Climate Change, Environmental Health, and Exposomics since 2018, and the first convened in partnership with the Institute on Health Disparities, Equity and the Exposome at Meharry Medical College.
“Metal Machine Music” and Learning the Loops of Life
Like music, biology is rhythmic, we sleep every 24 hours, we secrete hormones at predictable levels depending on the time of day, even our body temperature rhythmically changes throughout the day.
Position Statement on the Use of Artificial Turf Surfaces
The Mount Sinai Children’s Environmental Health Center at the Institute for Climate Change, Environmental Health, and Exposomics recommends against the installation of artificial turf playing surfaces and fields due to the uncertainties surrounding the safety of these products and the potential for dangerous heat and chemical exposures.
New Study: Ambient Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5) and its Composition: A Groundbreaking Web-Based Tool Sheds Light on Disparities
PM2.5 has long been recognized as a significant health concern, with strong links to increased mortality and morbidity. It often disproportionately affects minority and low-income communities.
10 Tips for a Safe and Healthy Holiday Season
Top Tips for a Green and Healthy Holiday from the Children’s Environmental Health Center
Mount Sinai Institute for Exposomic Research Unveils Name Change
The Institute for Exposomic Research has been renamed the Institute for Climate Change, Environmental Health, and Exposomics. This new name reflects the close integration of exposomic and environmental health research at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and emphasizes our ongoing commitment to addressing public health issues driven by climate change.
Pediatric and Reproductive Environmental Health Scholars Gather on NIEHS Campus
PREHS programs, first launched in 2021, have been established by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in partnership with the Pediatric and Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSUs) at the three institutions: the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Emory University, and the University of Washington.
New Study: Certain Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Identified as Potential Risk Factor for Thyroid Cancer
Mount Sinai researchers have discovered a link between per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) substances and an increased risk for thyroid cancer, according to a study published in eBioMedicine.
15 Tips For A Healthy Halloween
Halloween is a fun time for kids: trick-or-treating, classroom parties, dressing up and costumes and more. But we understand safety is a concern for moms and dads, which is why we’ve come up with these 11 easy tips and tricks to make Halloween a safe and fun activity for all!
Identifying Pre-Diagnostic Lipidomic Biomarkers for Liver Cancer
Liver cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths. Molecular changes that may support the initiation of cancer are new prevention opportunities and can be identified by analysis of omics datasets from cancer epidemiology cohorts.
How “Smart” Compost Bins Across NYC Can Lower Carbon Emissions and Combat Climate Inequality
Guest writer, Ava Rubinstein, a Summer 2023 intern at Mount Sinai, writes about the new “smart” composting bins in New York City. She writes that they allow local communities to reduce their carbon footprint in their own neighborhoods and help lower our global emissions.
Video: Francheska Merced-Nieves, PhD, discusses prenatal exposures to metal mixtures and child health
Dr. Merced-Nieves, PhD, is interviewed by Contemporary Pediatrics Editor Joshua Fitch, discussing her August 2023 study examining the association of prenatal exposures to a metal mixture and stress and the potential health effects.
I forgot to remember to forget (Elvis Presley by way of Stan Kesler and Charlie Feathers)
Researchers place a high value on memory, and without memory how could we function, how could we learn, how could we even find our way home? We judge someone with a good memory to be fortunate and seldom consider any downsides to remembering.
Study Finds Asian Americans to Have Significantly Higher Exposure to “Toxic Forever” Chemicals
Asian Americans have significantly higher exposure than other ethnic or racial groups to PFAS, a family of thousands of synthetic chemicals also known as “toxic forever” chemicals, Mount Sinai-led researchers report. People frequently encounter PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) in everyday life, and these exposures carry potentially adverse health impacts, according to the study published in Environmental Science and Technology.
Courses
The Institute offers educational modules taught by experts at the forefront of exposomics and metabolomics research. Trainees engage in practical exercises and data analysis to reinforce learning in order to stay updated with the latest advancements and trends shaping these rapidly evolving fields.
Mount Sinai Awarded $8.45 million for the Center on Health and Environment Across the LifeSpan (HEALS)
The NIEHS core centers support multidisciplinary research in environmental health and exposomics.
FEATURED STUDY: The Effect of Air Pollution on Diabetes
Type 2 diabetes is a major public health concern rising rapidly, with the number of people diagnosed with the disease worldwide more than doubling in the past 20 years. Researchers from the Mount Sinai Institute for Exposomic Research found that exposure to air pollution was associated with higher risks for developing diabetes.
Exploring the Impact of Nutrition on Gut Microbiome Health
Nutrition plays a critical role in shaping microbiome health. Learn how researchers at Mount Sinai’s Institute for Exposomic Research unveil the complex relationship between human diet and the gut microbiome.
2023 Exposome Day
The 2023 Exposome Day webinar explored how the environment shapes women’s reproductive health over 40. Replay the webinar.
Maida Galvez, MD, MPH, is appointed to the New York City Board of Health
Dr. Maida Galvez, Professor in the Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health and the Department of Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, has been appointed to the New York City Board of Health by the City Council
Mount Sinai joins the New York City Parks Department in Celebration of Pesticide-Free Parks
Eco-Friendly Parks for All, a coalition of environmental, public health and political action organizations, has teamed up with the New York City Parks and Recreation Department and the Stonyfield dairy company to celebrate the success of pilot organic land management programs at nine sites across the five boroughs.
Protecting Children from Wildfire Smoke
Smoke from wildfires in Canada is affecting air quality in parts of the U.S. Northeast. Understand the risks to children and how to protect them.
One-hit Wonders and the Exposome of Exposure Probability
“Begin at the beginning,” the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come to the end.” Lewis Carroll
EPA Funds Community-Led Investigation of the Impact of Waste Transfer Stations on Air Quality and Odors in Jamaica, Queens
Addressing the environmental impacts of the waste transfer stations on health and quality of life of neighboring residents in Jamaica, Queens
Q&A: Dr. Ryan Walker Answers Your Nutrition and Gut Microbiome Questions
The Gut and Microbiome Lunchtime Chat has generated many follow up questions. Gain in-depth insights on the impact of nutrition on gut health from a leading expert in the field.
Making the Invisible Visible through Super Learning
Mount Sinai scientists are reconstructing air pollution exposure at a 50-meter by 50-meter spot at more than 200 million locations in urban U.S. areas, going back 20 years
Mount Sinai Spinoff Startup LinusBio Raises $16 Million in Series A funding
LinusBio, a 2021 spinoff company from Mount Sinai, announced a Series A venture capital funding to deliver a novel platform that bridges genomics, the environment, and biological response. The company’s platform is based on new methods and technology developed by scientists at the Institute for Exposomic Research at Mount Sinai.
Household Cleaning Products: Keeping your Family Safe from Harmful Chemicals
Proper cleaning, disinfecting, and handwashing are important to prevent the spread of infections. However, chemicals in some products can be harmful to your health. Protect your family from chemical exposures by choosing safer products and practices.
Study Finds: Exposure to PFAS Found in Everyday Products Is Linked to Significantly Reduced Fertility
Researchers from Mount Sinai Institute for Exposomic Research found that exposure to chemicals commonly found in drinking water and everyday household products may result in reduced fertility in women by as much as 40 percent
The Human Exposome Map: Making Order Out of Chaos
“Begin at the beginning,” the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come to the end.” Lewis Carroll
WATCH: Climate, Air Pollution and Increased Lung Disease Risk: How Can Exposomics Identify the Most Vulnerable?
A lunchtime chat webinar by Rosalind J. Wright, MD, MPH, Co-Director, Mount Sinai Institute For Exposomic Research