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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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Susan Buchanan, MD MPH

Susan Buchanan, MD MPH, is on the board of Chicago PSR. She
graduated from the Ohio State University College of Medicine and completed a
Family Medicine residency at the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont. After nine
years of practice she sought additional training and board certification in
Occupational and Environmental Medicine. She is Assistant Professor of
Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Illinois at
Chicago School of Public Health. She is director the UIC residency program in
Occupational and Environmental Medicine and Director of the Great Lakes Center
for Children’s Environmental Health.
Posts
Protecting the Fetus from Harmful Pollutants: Lead, pesticides, mercury, and endocrine disruptors, February 6, 2012