Idling is when engines are left running while the vehicle is parked. Idling motors can create twice as much pollution to the environment and poses a risk to everyone’s health.
Kicking off Mount Sinai’s events during this year’s Aspen Ideas Festival on June 21, 2024, Dr. Brendan Carr, Mount Sinai Health System CEO, moderated a panel on exposomics and the environmental exposures that shape a person’s health across their lifespan.
Flame Retardants (FRs) are chemicals added to some consumer goods to meet regulatory standards for a product’s ability to resist catching on fire. However, mounting evidence demonstrates that many of these chemicals are not effective at preventing fires. Furthermore, recent studies suggest that human health risks associated with FRs may outweigh their benefits.
Rosalind Wright, MD MPH has seen middle-aged patients with conditions such as chronic lung disease, obesity, cognitive decline, and heart disease — conditions whose roots can be traced back many years, even to conditions prior to birth, during their mother’s pregnancy. “The trajectory is set, often, very early on,” she said. “And it’s really a host of environmental factors acting together and cumulatively.”
The 2024 Exposome Day webinar explores environmental risk factors and postpartum depression.
Mining used in cryptocurrency consumes massive amounts of electricity, often sourced from non-renewable resources like coal power, leading to significant carbon emissions and air pollution. Air pollution poses serious risks to public health, impacting almost every organ system and has been connected to higher overall mortality rates.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Society of Toxicology’s annual meeting features the innovative work of the Institute on SOT TV.
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.
The Center on Health and Environment Across the Lifespan (HEALS) proudly announces the eight awardees of the 2024 Round 1 Pilot Project Program. These projects address critical environmental health challenges, from pollutant exposure impacts in Kigali to community-based health initiatives in NYC. With funding ranging from $25,000 to $70,000, these pilots advance innovative research on environmental exposures and health outcomes.
“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.
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”.
We are pleased to announce our six awardees for the 2023 Pilot Project Program. The selected projects span a diverse range of environmental health issues and geographical locations, reflecting our commitment to addressing global environmental health challenges.
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.
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.
