Environmental health scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have a long history of supporting evidence-based protective policies and practices. For this reason, they are frequently called upon by community organizations and concerned residents for expert guidance on the health effects of environmental exposures and strategies to create safer environments.
Mentored by faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, our environmental health summer internship program empowers youth to explore important topics in the field and create their own advocacy projects to educate and inspire their peers.
Mount Sinai’s Region 2 Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU) collaborated with local organizations in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico to support the reopening of La Marquesa Forest Park, a lush forest reserve of approximately 600 acres.
Foods are a major source of exposure to both nutritional factors that support good health as well as chemicals that contribute to disease risk. For this reason, dietary exposures are a significant part of the exposome.
A recent study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology has identified critical periods during early life when lead exposure can significantly diminish children’s antibody responses to routine vaccinations. The research found that increased lead levels in the first three weeks after birth are associated with a notable decrease in anti-tetanus antibody levels, while exposure around the time of birth (one week before to one week after) correlates with reduced anti-diphtheria antibody levels.
In this 45-minute webinar, Maayan Yitshak-Sade, PhD, shares her research on environmental risk factors for stroke, focusing on temperature, greenness, and air pollution. Dr. Yitshak-Sade is an environmental epidemiologist, and she investigates the complex health effects of exposure mixtures and their impacts on morbidity, mortality, and life expectancy across demographic and socioeconomic population groups in the United States.
Science can learn valuable lessons from Kurt Cobain and Doris Lessing, integrating knowledge from different disciplines can lead to new insights and a deeper understanding of biology. Exposomic scientists are now beginning to study autism—a field long dominated by genetics. One would think that studies combining the skills and approaches of these two vastly different fields would abound, since they are studying the same disorder. But surprisingly, such interdisciplinary studies are extremely rare. Why?
Pesticides repel or kill unwanted pests such as insects, rodents, fungi and weeds. All pesticides have the potential to be toxic to humans.
A new study by researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai reveals that prenatal exposure to environmental chemicals and endocrine disruptors may pose significant risks to liver health for both mothers and their newborns. Additionally, the researchers found that treating folic acid and other B vitamin deficiencies in pregnancy may help counter some of the adverse effects of prenatal exposures on the livers of children.
Glyphosate is a widely-used weed killer, exposure to which is associated with a number of health risks. Learn about where glyphosate is found and how to protect your family from exposure.
A new study published in Communications Medicine – Nature sheds light on the profound health effects of environmental and chemical exposures experienced by rescue and recovery workers after the 9/11 World Trade Center (WTC) attacks.
A healthy school environment that includes access to clean air and water and safe spaces to play is critical to children’s health and well-being.
Researchers found an increase in the risk of ASCVD death, with notable associations with oil combustion sources and coal and biomass burning
In a research letter published in Gastroenterology, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai explore the association between earlier chemical exposures, particularly mixtures of pesticides, and risk of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC).
Megan K. Horton, PhD MPH works within the ongoing longitudinal birth cohort in Mexico City called PROGRESS. In this webinar, she will discuss cutting edge research linking early life metal exposure reconstructed from baby teeth with structural and function brain changes measured using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in children and adolescents.
R. Sean Morrison, MD, will share his insights as a leading geriatrician and researcher on how environmental factors, such as air pollution, hearing loss, noise, and temperature extremes may influence the development and progression of age-related diseases including Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias.
Dr. Kloog discussed how new AI and machine learning models that he has developed are being used to study environmental exposures, like air pollution and temperature extremes, and their impact on public health.
The Mount Sinai Center on Health and Environment Across the LifeSpan (HEALS) and The Tisch Cancer Institute (TCI) invite submissions for pilot grant proposals. This initiative aims to support innovative research at the intersection of environmental health sciences and cancer prevention, control, and treatment.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded two prestigious grants to researchers within the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai’s Department of Environmental Medicine. The Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific and Academic Independent Careers (MOSAIC) Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity (K99/R00) awards are designed to support promising postdoctoral researchers from diverse backgrounds as they transition to independent, tenure-track faculty positions.
As we interpret exposomic data, we should consider the potential flaw of linear thinking in our pathway analyses and the role of physiology. A molecular mechanism is not the only possible story. Everything is connected, and the exposome rarely will act uniformly on all our cells and can’t predict how these disproportionate effects will carry forward to distant tissues. Time makes an effect that arises when we are young evolve to a completely different effect when we are old.
