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.
Dr. Barbara Sattler is a nurse, an Associate Professor at
the University of Maryland School of Nursing, and the Director of the Center
for Occupational and Environmental Health and Justice there. The center focuses
on community-based strategies to address environmental health issues and is
training nurses in issues such as Brownfields and Superfund sites, drinking
water, and indoor air quality. Dr. Sattler was also involved in supporting an
Environmental Justice Youth Council which worked with Baltimore City high
school students to identify health risks in their own communities. Dr. Sattler
holds a Diploma in Nursing from the Pilgrim State Hospital School of Nursing,
Brentwood, New York, a BS from the University of Baltimore, Baltimore,
Maryland, and an MPH and DrPH from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
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Why Nurses Need Chemical Policy Reform, January 5, 2012
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