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
2021 Community Outreach Recap
Our goal is for our research to be transparent and for the Louisville community to understand what we are doing, why, and what it means to them. See this 2021 Community Outreach Recap to see the variety of ways that the team shared about our work across Louisville.
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!
News
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- Oct 06, 2021 UofL study finds higher rate of COVID-19 infection than public numbers show
- Oct 06, 2021 Report: COVID-19 was far worse in August than first thought for Louisville area
- Oct 06, 2021 Jefferson County May Have Had Double The Known COVID Infections For A Period In August, UofL Study Finds
- Oct 06, 2021 U of L study: Weekly COVID-19 rate twice as high as reported in August
- Oct 06, 2021 Latest round of Co-Immunity Project testing shows steep increase in COVID-19 infections in Jefferson County
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.