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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
Laura Anderko, RN PhD
Laura Anderko RN PhD holds the Robert and Kathleen Scanlon Endowed Chair in Values Based Health Care at Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies. She is a scholar and educator in the fields of epidemiology, public health and environmental health. A Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow, Dr. Anderko earned her Ph.D. in Public Health from the University of Illinois, an MS from Northern Illinois University, and a BSN from University of Chicago. She is a former member of the Environmental Protection Agency's federal advisory committee, the Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee (CHPAC).
Posts
A redirection of approaches is needed: From “innocent until proven guilty” to “first do no harm,” September 1, 2010
How can our regulatory system more effectively protect the health of the developing fetus?, February 2, 2012