$11 million grant establishes Superfund Research Program
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HSPH has been awarded a four-year, $11 million grant from the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences to establish a Superfund Research Program, joining a network of university-based research projects designed to seek solutions to the complex health and environmental issues associated with the nation's hazardous waste sites. The HSPH program builds on the Department of Environmental Health's existing work on toxic metal exposure and neurodevelopment through cohorts established by Robert Wright (pictured), the new program's overall principal investigator, in Tar Creek, Oklahoma, and Mexico City. A new study on child development also will be conducted in Bangladesh to look at arsenic toxicity from exposure to drinking water. By pooling and analyzing the results from all three studies, the researchers will be able to see if combinations of metals are more toxic than individual metals, and determine genetic factors that modify metal toxicity. Read more
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Save the Date: HSPH Flu Clinic
Thursday, October 28, 9:00-11:00 AM Kresge Cafeteria
Free to faculty, staff, and students. Current Harvard ID required.
Please note: The clinic will remain open until all doses have been administered, which might occur before 11:00.
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HSPH donates to community group
 | | HSPH's Mary Jane Curran, Bruce Smith, and Paul Riccardi, pictured with Boston City Council President Mike Ross, State Rep. Jeffrey Sanchez, and members of Socidad Latina. |
HSPH has donated $15,000 to Sociedad Latina, a local community group. The grant will go toward Sociedad Latina's Health Careers for Youth internship program, which helps youth gain experience in research, clerical and other positions at a number of Longwood Medical area institutions.
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Around the School
 Faculty newsAndrea Baccarelli was appointed Mark and Catherine Winkler associate professor of environmental epigenetics. Franziska Michor was appointed associate professor of computational biology. Elsie Sunderland was appointed Mark and Catherine Winkler assistant professor of aquatic science on September 1.
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