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About
Welcome to PSR's Environmental Health Policy
Institute, where we ask questions -- then we ask the experts to
answer them. Join us as physicians, health professionals,
and environmental health experts share their ideas, inspiration, and
analysis about toxic chemicals and environmental health policy.
Topics
- State Toxics Policy April 30, 2013
- Obesogens March 20, 2013
- Clean Energy December 12, 2012
- Radioactivity and Health October 31, 2012
- How Effective Is the EPA? September 24, 2012
- Particulate Matter August 22, 2012
- Hydraulic Fracturing June 18, 2012
- The Future of Toxics Advocacy May 18, 2012
- Toxics and brain development April 9, 2012
- Coal Ash March 2, 2012
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Ana Mascareñas
Ana Mascareñas is committed to advancing the precautionary principle as the basis for public health and environmental policy. She is the Policy and Communications Coordinator with Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles (PSR-LA), where she works to inform the medical community and policymakers about toxic threats, promote safer practices, and strengthen local community organizations to engage in meaningful public health and environmental advocacy. Ana studied human biology at Brown University and has worked in public service and for nonprofits in Los Angeles for the past 6 years. She comes from three generations of a California farmworker family.
Posts
Farmworker Community Health and Pesticides in the Golden State: Leadership or a Tarnished Record?, August 24, 2011
Greening Toxics Policy in California, April 30, 2013