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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
- Fracking Revisited August 5, 2013
- Federal Chemical Policy Reform June 28, 2013
- Indoor Air Pollution May 30, 2013
- 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
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Sean Palfrey, MD
Sean Palfrey, MD, is a pediatrician who
practices and teaches at Boston Medical Center where he is a Professor of
Pediatrics and Public Health. He has worked in Massachusetts since the mid
1970s and has played a variety of roles in the state. He has run lead poisoning
prevention programs for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the
Boston Public Health Commission, and has been an outspoken advocate for better
research on and regulation of potential toxic materials in the environment. He
was president of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of
Pediatrics and has worked with the Massachusetts, and national, legislatures to
build better public health programs for children.
Posts
Time to Heed the Evidence, June 16, 2011