A5003021100- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
- Diabetes Treatment and Management
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Diabetes Management and Research
- Risk Perception and Management
- Water Treatment and Disinfection
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Emile Durkheim and Sociology
- Children's Physical and Motor Development
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
- Management and Organizational Studies
- Colorectal Cancer Treatments and Studies
- Policy Transfer and Learning
- Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
- Mining and Resource Management
- Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications
- Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
Klinikum rechts der Isar
2024
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
2022-2024
University of Toronto
2023
Creighton University
2022
Rhode Island School of Design
2020-2021
Providence College
2020-2021
Northeastern University
2016-2020
Silent Spring Institute
2018-2019
William Paterson University
2018
Science History Institute
2018
Communities across the U.S. are discovering drinking water contaminated by perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) determining appropriate actions. There currently no federal PFAS standards despite widespread contamination, ubiquitous population-level exposure, toxicological epidemiological evidence of adverse health effects. Absent standards, multiple states have developed their own health-based guideline levels to guide decisions about site cleanup surveillance treatment. We...
Understandings of environmental governance both assume and challenge the relationship between expert knowledge corresponding action. We explore this interplay by examining context production pertaining to a contested class chemicals. Per-and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFASs) are widely used industrial compounds containing chemical chains carbon fluorine that persistent, bioaccumulative toxic. Although industry regulatory scientists have studied exposure toxicity concerns these for...
This article examines how ignorance can be produced by regulatory systems. Using the case of contamination from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), we identify patterns institutionalized in U.S. chemical regulation. Drawing on in-depth interviews archival research, develop a pathway approach to study knowledge production through framework, Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Investigating TSCA’s operation, consider why PFAS were relatively recently recognized as significant public...
The Trump administration has undertaken an assault on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), agency critical to environmental health. This precedents in administrations of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. early (1981–1983) launched overt attack EPA, combining deregulation with budget staff cuts, whereas Bush (2001–2008) adopted a subtler approach, undermining science-based policy. current combines both these strategies operates political context more favorable its designs EPA....
Environmental justice (EJ) literature rarely offers an explicit theory of race to explain processes disparate environmental exposure and recourse in non-white low-income communities. Failing do so, analyses inequality risk eliding a central driver racism. Based on case study contested birth defect cluster California, this article traces the ways which evidence health harms are rendered conceptually invisible by institutions mandated protect public environment. Turning theoretical model...
In the absence of comprehensive environmental regulation, under what conditions can social movement pressure on private sector generate substantive change? We explore this question in relation to per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a class persistent, bioaccumulative, toxic chemicals that are widely used consumer products industrial processes yet remain largely understudied weakly regulated. This paper focuses strengths limitations one high-profile shame campaign by Greenpeace has...
Concern about the toxicity and exposure of per- polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) is growing among scientists, regulators, residents contaminated communities. In 2016, United States Food Drug Administration (FDA) removed three food contact (FCSs) containing perfluorinated chemicals from list approved FCSs due to concerns regarding chemical safety. To investigate significance limitations FDA's regulatory action for environmental health research, advocacy, regulation, we conducted a media...
Pioneer environmental sociologists, Riley E. Dunlap and William R. Catton Jr., successfully laid the foundation of sociology by pointing out anthropocentric bias mainstream sociology. The exemplary intellectual source this could be found in works French sociologist Émile Durkheim whose methodological dictum stated that social facts only explained other facts. Here we call for a re-evaluation Durkheim's role as perpetrator behind Human Exemptionalist Paradigm dominating We do from several...
We report here on a multifaceted body of research per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), chemicals that have become well-known group 'emerging contaminants' in recent years. Our PFAS Project team over 10 researchers – faculty, postdocs, graduate students, undergraduates has been working since 2015 to study the extent health effects contamination through broad model engaged public sociology. combines organic sociology with elements community-based participatory research, related but...
SGLT2 inhibitors (SGLT2is) and GLP-1 receptor agonists (GLP1-RAs) reduce major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). However, their effectiveness relative to each other second-line antihyperglycemic agents is unknown, without any ongoing head-to-head trials. Across the LEGEND-T2DM network, we included ten federated international data sources, spanning 1992-2021. We identified 1,492,855 T2DM established disease (CVD) on metformin monotherapy...
Engagement with science is a prominent feature for many social movements, yet the dimensions of that scientific engagement and bidirectional relationships between advocacy are incompletely theorized in movement scholarship. While scholarship has previously demonstrated importance external political economic factors processes efficacy, we show emergence success environmental health activism also dependent on dynamic evidence lay demands particular types knowledge production application....
In 2015, Dorceta Taylor received the Fred Buttel Outstanding Contribution to Field of Environmental Sociology Award at annual meeting American Sociological Association (ASA). At a bu...
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of paper.
As breast cancer rates increase globally, there is growing scientific consensus that greater understanding of the causes needed to better prevent its occurrence. Genetics accounts for a small percentage cases, thus environmental factors and epigenetics are increasingly suspect in etiology. Within social movements, longstanding calls research policy aimed toward prevention cancer. To understand opportunities barriers addressing contributors cancer, this article investigates both outcomes...
Background: US guidelines for type 2 diabetes (T2DM) recommend metformin as first-line anti-hyperglycemic therapy (AHT), but prioritizing the use of AHTs that reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk – GLP1-RAs and SGLT2is is increasingly suggested people with CVD. We examine multinational patterns GLP1-RAs, SGLT2is, DPP4is, sulfonylureas (SUs) therapies patients Methods: In 10 6 non-US databases between 2016 2021 mapped to a common data model [A], we measured yearly initiation SUs in T2DM...
Occupational therapy practitioners provide sensory-based interventions to support children as they learn academically, develop self-regulation skills, and participate in play activities of daily living skills alongside their peers. These are used both for who have a specific sensory-related diagnosis well do not diagnosis. This study explored common occupational sensory utilized within the United States school settings along with implementation barriers intervention services ages 3–18 years...