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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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Emily Marquez, PhD
Emily Marquez is the staff scientist at Pesticide Action Network (PAN). She holds a PhD in Biology from Boston University. She began studying reptiles as an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, working on effects of sex steroids on sex determination and development in snakes, turtles, and lizards in the laboratory of Professor Tyrone Hayes. Before joining PAN in 2012, she studied the impact of contaminated soil on the expression of genes that play a role in reproduction in turtles for her dissertation in the laboratory of Professor Ian Callard, then briefly did postdoctoral research at UC Davis and UC Berkeley.
Posts
The Rise of Obesogens: Chemical Exposures and the Obesity Epidemic, February 21, 2013