Summarize this content to 1000 words The NIEHS Worker Training Program (WTP) is addressing disparities among workers in order to narrow the gaps that make some more vulnerable to getting sick or injured on the job than others. The 2024 WTP Spring Workshop in May allowed WTP grant recipients and federal and local partners to discuss strategies to address gender, racial, and other disparities in the workforce, hoping to help
Summarize this content to 1000 words A relatively small federal investment in the Environmental Career Worker Training Program (ECWTP) results in vast societal and economic benefits, according to a new program evaluation report covering 2014 to 2022.Through well-targeted training, the program helps people from disadvantaged and underserved communities obtain careers in environmental construction, remediation, and cleanup. Part of the broader Worker Training Program, the ECWTP is administered by NIEHS. The
Summarize this content to 1000 words Criswell also heads the Genomics of Autoimmune Rheumatic Disease Section of the National Human Genome Research Institute. (Photo courtesy of Steve McCaw / NIEHS) Few subjects in medical research are more vexing than lupus, a multifaceted chronic autoimmune disease that has no diagnostic test or cure. Yet in a June 11 Distinguished Lecture, Lindsey A. Criswell, M.D., M.P.H., D.Sc., director of the National Institute
Summarize this content to 1000 words NIEHS-supported studies of exposures among active-duty personnel and veterans, along with developments in community-based research and environmental justice, were among the topics discussed at the June 4 meeting of the National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council. The Council is a congressionally mandated body that meets three times a year to provide guidance on the direction of research, training, and career development supported by NIEHS.
Summarize this content to 1000 words National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists recently gathered with researchers, clinicians, and community members to discuss emerging research focused on interventions — simple, accessible, and safe steps people can take — to mitigate exposures to endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs). These chemicals interfere with hormones produced by the endocrine system, which controls metabolism, heart rate, growth, reproduction, and other biological processes.During the two-day workshop held June
Summarize this content to 1000 words Federal agencies and their stakeholders discussed initiatives to reduce animal use in research and chemical safety testing at a public forum convened by the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods (ICCVAM) May 20-21 at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland.ICCVAM members include 17 federal agencies, such as NIEHS, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Summarize this content to 1000 words Rick Woychik, Ph.D., directs NIEHS and the National Toxicology Program. (Image courtesy of NIEHS) After I launched this column three and a half years ago, one of the first topics I covered was environmental justice. I interviewed NIEHS grantee Robert Bullard, Ph.D., often referred to as “the father of environmental justice,” who defined the term this way: Environmental justice is not so mysterious or
Summarize this content to 1000 words NIEHS hosted a June 18 celebration featuring a Juneteenth lecture, thought discussions, health webinars, and engagements with local community organizations to recognize the past and improve the future. Melissa Davis, Ph.D., founding director of the Institute of Translational Genomic Medicine at the Morehouse School of Medicine, delivered the Juneteenth lecture. The federal holiday observed on June 19 commemorates the ending of slavery in the
Summarize this content to 1000 words The story of human genomics has often been associated with the Human Genome Project, the monumental effort to map and sequence the human genome. But as Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., said in a June 7 lecture at NIEHS, the completion of that project in 2003 was just the beginning — really just the first chapter — of the story.Green, who directs the National Human
Summarize this content to 1000 words Residential property disclosure statements in North Carolina now include a question about testing for contaminants in private wells, thanks to work by the NIEHS-funded University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) Superfund Research Program (SRP) Center and collaborators. The decision by the North Carolina Real Estate Commission, effective July 1, requires sellers to indicate whether dwellings supplied by private well water have ever
