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Global Environmental Health Chat

Global Environmental Health Chat

This podcast series brings to you the knowledge and experiences of people working to understand and combat environmental health problems that reach beyond national boundaries and contribute to the global burden of disease.

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30:13

Human Health Impacts of Microplastics in the Great Lakes

Global Environmental Health Chat ·

2025/08/15

In this episode we will hear from Katrina Korfmacher, Ph.D., and Christy Tyler, Ph.D., co-directors of the Lake Ontario Microplastics Center (LOMP) at the University of Rochester, jointly funded by NIEHS and the National Science Foundation. They will discuss the efforts underway at the center to better understand and respond to the human health impacts of microplastics in Lake Ontario and the entire Great Lakes region.

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9:52

Highlighting Research in Understudied Communities

Global Environmental Health Chat ·

2025/04/18

In this podcast episode, we speak with Dr. Kalpana Balakrishnan, the editor-in-chief of JHP, about the journal’s focus on understudied communities. We also discuss the unique features offered by JHP, which spotlights researchers from low-resource areas and builds research capacity in those communities.

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14:04

Disaster Research Response Program Marks 10 Years

Global Environmental Health Chat ·

2024/08/09

To commemorate the program’s 10th anniversary this year, DR2 program lead Dr. Aubrey Miller discusses program hallmarks, successes, and goals.

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11:06

Global Climate Change and Cancer Care

Global Environmental Health Chat ·

2024/04/15

In this episode, we will hear from Leticia Nogueira, the scientific director of Health Services Research at the American Cancer Society and an inaugural NIH Climate Change and Health Scholar.

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19:21

Partnering With Indigenous Communities to Improve...

Global Environmental Health Chat ·

2023/08/01

In this podcast episode, we speak with Johnnye Lewis, Ph.D., a toxicologist at the University of New Mexico (UNM) and longtime director of its NIEHS-funded Metals Exposure and Toxicity Assessment on Tribal Lands in the Southwest (METALS) Superfund Research Program (SRP) Center.

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11:02

Global Health Impacts of Tropical Cyclones

Global Environmental Health Chat ·

2023/06/01

In this episode, we will hear from Robbie M. Parks, Ph.D., an NIEHS grantee and an assistant professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University. Parks has studied the short- and long-term public health impacts of hurricanes and other tropical cyclones on different communities.

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9:40

Heat and Heart Health

Global Environmental Health Chat ·

2023/03/01

In this podcast episode, we speak with Dr. Sameed Khatana, a cardiologist at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. We discuss the effects of extreme heat waves on the human body, including the connection between excessive temperatures and heart disease.

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8:32

Aquatic Ecosystems: Climate Change Impacts on Water...

Global Environmental Health Chat ·

2023/01/01

Aquatic ecosystems are communities of plants or animals that live near water habitats such as lakes, ponds, rivers, oceans, or swamps. These ecosystems are beneficial to the environment providing drinking water, food sources, such as fish and oysters, and areas for recreational activities. This ecosystem is under threat of climate change driving up the water temperature and creating more hospitable homes for microbes like Vibrio bacteria.

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11:48

Rainforest Ecosystems: The Amazon, Deforestation, and...

Global Environmental Health Chat ·

2022/10/01

Rainforests are highly beneficial to the environment providing cleaner air and the storage of carbon, but rainforests are under extreme threat from climate change, deforestation, and land-use changes from agricultural practices.

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16:15

Climate, Food, and Nutrition

Global Environmental Health Chat ·

2022/05/01

In this podcast episode, we speak with plant physiologist Lewis Ziska, Ph.D., associate professor of environmental health sciences at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center. We discuss how climate change affects food systems and human health, including an increased risk of exposure to foodborne illnesses and a decrease of the overall nutrition.

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28:13

Climate Change and Mental Health

Global Environmental Health Chat ·

2021/10/01

Learn about the mental health effects of climate change, who are the populations affected, and some response strategies. It discusses death and mentions suicide.

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28:08

Wildfires and Indigenous Populations

Global Environmental Health Chat ·

2021/03/01

Learn about the health effects of wildfires, emergency management, indigenous fire practices to mitigate wildfire, and the effect climate change has on the wildfires.

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18:03

Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR) in India

Global Environmental Health Chat ·

2019/10/01

Edith Parker discusses how CBPR benefited her work in rural communities, then, Tandon discusses how India utilizes CBPR today, and how it might create a better future.

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22:08

Air Pollution, Climate Change, and Health in India...

Global Environmental Health Chat ·

2018/02/15

Learn how innovative partnerships and community engagement approaches are helping to build capacity in India in addressing environmental and health concerns.

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21:50

Air Pollution, Climate Change, and Health in India...

Global Environmental Health Chat ·

2017/12/21

Learn how innovative partnerships and community engagement approaches are helping to build capacity in India in addressing environmental and health concerns.

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5:09

Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD)

Global Environmental Health Chat ·

2016/12/23

Research in environmental factors is helping to explain the global increase in non-communicable diseases, and also identify opportunities to improve public health.

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6:58

NIEHS Climate Change and Environmental Exposures...

Global Environmental Health Chat ·

2016/04/25

In this podcast we hear about how scientists and communities are using innovative data visualization tools to look at health, resiliency, and heat exposures nationwide.

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6:55

NIEHS Climate Change and Environmental Exposures...

Global Environmental Health Chat ·

2016/04/25

Learn how scientists and communities are using innovative data visualization tools to look at climate change in the Near West neighborhood of Indianapolis and flooding in St. Louis.

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4:13

A Global Network to Advance Children’s Health (Part II)

Global Environmental Health Chat ·

2015/04/20

We explore how the network helps to advance research and interventions to improve children’s health around the world from a network participant based in Uruguay.

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4:29

A Global Network to Advance Children’s Health (Part I)

Global Environmental Health Chat ·

2015/04/20

In this podcast in a series, we explore how the network helps to advance research and interventions to improve children’s health around the world from NIEHS.

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