Category: Division of Community Health Investigations
From Ophthalmology to Environmental Public Health – a Life Well Traveled
Unlike many others who embark on a career in public health upon graduating from college, Bruce Tierney, M.D., Captain, United States Public Health Service, and Senior Medical Officer, Division of Community Health Investigations, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) came into public health by a most unusual route. Read More >
Posted on by Leave a commentNCEH/ATSDR – Top 10 “Your Health, Your Environment” Blog Posts of 2016
As this year draws to a close, perhaps you’ve realized that you didn’t get a chance to read all of the “Your Health, Your Environment” blog posts. To help you get caught up, here are the ten most popular posts of 2016: Read More >
Posted on by Leave a commentLeading in Public Service by Choice, Learning, and Commitment
“Once chosen, the path of creative altruism can take many forms, and for some it is public service,” says Joe Sarcone, Environmental Health Scientist, Region 10 Representative and leading expert on Alaskan Native population environmental health topics for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). Read More >
Posted on by Leave a commentWhat would you do if hazardous chemicals were spilled near your house?
Sue Casteel answers this question every day by teaching people about simple steps they can take to protect themselves and their families from exposure to hazardous chemicals in the environment. Sue is a health educator in Region IV in Atlanta with the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). Read More >
Posted on by Leave a commentCommunity environmental health activism in South Gate, Los Angeles County, CA
Imagine that you are attending a community workshop about cleaning up the environment in your city. Local environmental justice activists are there to explain how the effects of pollution are disproportionately higher in your area than in other parts of the county. Read More >
Posted on by Leave a commentMeet the Scientist: Lora Siegmann Werner
Lora sees herself carrying on an open door tradition started by the founder of the ATSDR Region 3 office, Charles “Bucky” Walters. Back in the early days when ATSDR was first developing approaches to evaluating chemical exposures in communities, “anyone in EPA could come in and we would do our best to help them.” Read More >
Posted on by 2 CommentsATSDRs Environmental Odors Website
Environmental odors are substances in the environment that can be smelled. These type of concerns are common. Some petitions that the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) receives involve an odor concern. Frequently asked questions are “Will the odor make me sick?” and “Are all environmental odors toxic?” Read More >
Posted on by Leave a commentUranium Awareness Training Course Empowers over 90 Navajo Community Health Representatives
How much do you know about uranium? Do you know that it is naturally present in nearly all rocks, soils, and air? Or that nearly everyone is exposed to low amounts of uranium in food and water? For much of the U.S. population, uranium exposure stays at these low levels. But in the 1940s, federal Read More >
Posted on by Leave a commentATSDR at Work: Camp Lejeune, NC, Part 3
Third in a Series of Three Posts Working with the Community: Camp Lejeune Community Assistance Panel What are Community Assistance Panels? If you don’t know much about the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), you may not realize that it is one of the federal agencies that recognize the importance of community and Read More >
Posted on by Leave a commentATSDR at Work: Camp Lejeune, NC, Part 2
Second in a Series of Three Posts ATSDR Gathers Information about Health When they learned that drinking water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune had been contaminated from the 1940s to the 1980s, many people who lived or worked there in those years became concerned about their health. ATSDR has completed four studies to learn Read More >
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