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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
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