SRP-Related Sites
Boston Consensus Conference on Biomonitoring
The 2006 Boston Consensus Conference on Human Biomonitoring brought together a cross-section of Boston area residents to engage with experts on human biomonitoring for environmental chemicals and to produce a consensus statement on their views. This website includes a video documenting the background and highlights of the conference.
Dioxin-Contaminated Chicken: An Environmental Health Disaster Scenario
The BU SRP Community Outreach Core created and organized environmental health-related scenarios for students ages 14-18 that teach about current environmental health issues. The aim is to teach students how to make informed decisions about an environmental health issue requiring a combination of critical thinking, analytic skills, and problem solving skills. This website shares all of the information needed to conduct this exercise.
Environmental Health Nursing Education Collaborative
The Environmental Health Nursing Education Collaborative is jointly organized by the BU SRP Community Outreach Core and the Harvard-NIEHS Center for Environmental Health. Our goal is to increase environmental health education and training of nurses and nursing students. This is accomplished primarily by working with nursing faculty to integrate environmental health into their curricula. The Collaborative website includes a variety of resources, including case studies, developed for environmental health nursing education.
Lessons from Love Canal
Health studies of Love Canal residents are still being conducted. In an effort to catalog, preserve and make the science more widely accessible, the Research Translation and Community Outreach Cores maintain a website built to house the comprehensive bibliography of Love Canal health studies. Other features on the site include a chronology of events, pictures, videos, and links to activist tools.
Outreach Partners
Alternatives for Community & Environment
Alternatives for Community & Environment (ACE), based in Boston, builds the power of communities of color and lower-income communities to eradicate environmental racism and classism and achieve environmental justice. ACE advocates for the rights of all to live in a healthy environment and to be decision-makers on issues affecting thier communities.
The Center for Health, Environment & Justice
The Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ) was founded in 1981 by Lois Gibbs, the key community leader who sought justice at Love Canal. CHEJ seeks to help local citizens and organizations take an organized, unified stand in order to hold industry and government accountable while working toward a healthy, sustainable future. CHEJ is spearheading the national BE SAFE campaign to build support for the precautionary approach to preventing pollution and environmental destruction.
Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility
Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility (GBPSR) is an affiliate of the national organization, PSR. GBPSR has more than 1,000 members in Massachusetts who work on a variety of issues relating to health, including environmental contamination. Since 1992, GBPSR has been educating health care providers about the linkages between environmental exposures and health, creating educational materials and research reports, conducting educational seminars and presentations, providing members with the tools to work to protect public health, and assisting grassroots groups with technical and scientific expertise related to human health and the environment.
Toxics Action Center
Since 1987, Toxics Action Center (TAC) has helped more than 400 neighborhood groups across New England fight toxic pollution in their communities. Through group consultations, expert referrals, conferences, and information guides, TAC has worked on a variety of issues including cleanup of hazardous waste sites, landfills, and incinerators; stopping the spraying of harmful pesticides; pressuring companies to reduce their toxic chemical use; and addressing other threats to the health and safety of residents, neighborhoods, and the environment.
