Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute
The Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute engages researchers and citizen scientists to learn how our natural, social, and personal environments impact health. We use a multidimensional model of health to explore and understand the relationships between the environment and human health.
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Envirome Researchers are Featured in JAMA’s Health Forum
Aruni Bhatnagar, director of the UofL Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute, Ted Smith, director of the Institute’s Center for Healthy Air, Water and Soil, along with a colleague from the Harvard University Global Health Initiative, co-authored an article recently published in JAMA Health Forum. The article "Wastewater Surveillance Can Have a Second Act in COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution" analyzes the impacts of wastewater surveillance and its implications for improving vaccination.
Learn More About The Envirome’s Wastewater Surveillance Work
Co-Immunity Testing for COVID-19 Resumes
Co-Immunity Community testing for active COVID-19 and antibodies (from a healed infection) is resuming from Friday, February 5 and will run until Thursday, February 11, 2021. Testing is done by appointment only at locations across Louisville. Click here to learn more about Co-Immunity testing or call 1-833-313-0502 or click on the button below to make your appointment.
Sustain Magazine
Sustain Magazine is an educational resource that shares stories, strategies, and solutions from environmental health research about innovative and immerging development practices that mitigate and improve the human health consequences of unsustainable development. You can browse all the past issues here.
The 40th issue focuses on the work of the Superfund Research Center at the Envirome Institute. Read it here!
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- Feb 26, 2021 Exposure to Volatile Organic Compounds – Acrolein, 1,3-Butadiene, and Crotonaldehyde – is Associated with Vascular Dysfunction
- Feb 24, 2021 Data: Lower Daily Temps Lead to Higher COVID-19 Transmission
- Feb 24, 2021 Understanding COVID-19 transmission in lower temperatures
- Feb 24, 2021 Endothelial Progenitor Cells as Critical Mediators of Environmental Air Pollution-Induced Cardiovascular Toxicity.
- Feb 24, 2021 Global Covid-19 cases plummet by 50% since January peak despite colder temperatures boosting transmission rates
Envirome in the White House Chronicle
White House Chronicle host, Llewellyn King, interviews the director of the Envirome Institute, Aruni Bhatnagar, and director of the Center for Healthy Air, Water, and Soil, Theodore “Ted” Smith on the benefit of trees on human health and the Envirome Institute’s response to COVID-19.
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Support the Envirome’s transdisciplinary team of researchers as they develop new approaches to promoting and preserving human health, increasing the understanding that healthy air, water and soil are keys to the health of all life. Make a donation online or schedule an appointment with our Development Director.