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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
- The Future of Toxics Advocacy May 18, 2012
- Toxics and brain development April 9, 2012
- Coal Ash March 2, 2012
- Prenatal Exposures February 2, 2012
- Public Health and the Safe Chemicals Act January 5, 2012
- Toxics tools and resources December 5, 2011
- Health hazards of fragrances November 3, 2011
- Environmental justice October 6, 2011
- Farmworkers and pesticides August 24, 2011
- Health professional advocacy July 28, 2011
- Cancer and toxic chemicals June 16, 2011
- Air pollution April 14, 2011
- Food and toxics February 24, 2011
- From climate science to climate policy January 13, 2011
- Technology and toxics December 15, 2010
- Emerging environmental hazards November 4, 2010
- Scientific uncertainty in policy choices October 7, 2010
- Chemicals management policy September 1, 2010
Jessica
Trowbridge, MPH
Jessica is
Research Scientist in the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment
(PRHE), University of California San Francisco. She co-leads the From Advancing
Science to Ensuring Prevention (FASTEP) project and implements PRHE’s
communication strategy. Jessica is a graduate of the UC Berkeley School of
Public Health, where she studied Environmental Health Sciences. During her
studies she interned with PRHE, recruiting study participants at San Francisco
General Hospital. Jessica has 10 years of experience in public health and is
interested in policy, science translation, and environmental and reproductive
justice.
Posts
Food Matters: In Hospitals and For Prenatal Health, February 2, 2012