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Housing and health: intersection of poverty and environmental exposuresVirginia A Rauh
Columbia Center for Children s Environmental Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 60 Haven Ave, B 2, New York, NY 10032, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1136:276-88. 2008..We end the chapter with a discussion of the environmental justice movement and the role of housing as a potential agent of change and focus of interventions aimed to reduce the harmful effects of environmental pollutants...
A qualitative analysis of environmental policy and children's health in MexicoEnrique Cifuentes
Environmental Health, Center for Population Health Research, National Institute of Public Health INSP, Universidad No 655, Col Santa Maria Ahuacatitlan, Cerrada Los Pinos y Caminera Cuernavaca, Morelos CP 62100, Mexico
Environ Health 9:14. 2010..We therefore identified and assessed the adequacy of existing international and Mexican governance instruments and policy tools to protect children from environmental hazards...- Methylmercury exposure in a subsistence fishing community in Lake Chapala, Mexico: an ecological approachLeonardo Trasande
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1 Gustave L Levy Place, Box 1057, New York, NY 10029, USA
Environ Health 9:1. 2010..However, neither the extent of human mercury exposure nor its sources and routes have been elucidated... - A systematic review of US state environmental legislation and regulation with regards to the prevention of neurodevelopmental disabilities and asthmaLauren Zajac
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Environ Health 8:9. 2009..However, relatively few analyses have examined the extent to which states protect children from chemical factors in the environment... - Environmental justice and the health of childrenPhilip J Landrigan
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY USA
Mt Sinai J Med 77:178-87. 2010..Documentation of linkages between health disparities and environmental injustice is an important step toward achieving environmental justice... - Early environmental origins of neurodegenerative disease in later lifePhilip J Landrigan
Center for Children s Health and the Environment, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Environ Health Perspect 113:1230-3. 2005..Additional approaches to etiologic discovery include establishing incidence registries for AD and PD, conducting targeted investigations in high-risk populations, and improving testing of the potential neurologic toxicity of chemicals... - Children's health and the environment: public health issues and challenges for risk assessmentPhilip J Landrigan
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
Environ Health Perspect 112:257-65. 2004..The adequate protection of children against toxic agents in the environment will require fundamental and far-reaching revisions of current approaches to toxicity testing and risk assessment... - Impact of September 11 World Trade Center disaster on children and pregnant womenPhilip J Landrigan
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L Levy Place, New York, NY, USA
Mt Sinai J Med 75:129-34. 2008.... - Health and environmental consequences of the world trade center disasterPhilip J Landrigan
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
Environ Health Perspect 112:731-9. 2004..Continuing follow-up of all exposed populations is required to document the long-term consequences of the disaster... 
The National Children's Study: a 21-year prospective study of 100,000 American childrenPhilip J Landrigan
Center for Children s Health and the Environment, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, New York, New York, USA
Pediatrics 118:2173-86. 2006..Data from the National Children's Study will guide development of a comprehensive blueprint for disease prevention in children...- The ambulatory pediatric association fellowship in pediatric environmental health: a 5-year assessmentPhilip J Landrigan
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029 6574, USA
Environ Health Perspect 115:1383-7. 2007..Evidence is mounting that environmental exposures contribute to causation of disease in children. Yet few pediatricians are trained to diagnose, treat, or prevent disease of environmental origin... - Children as a vulnerable populationPhilip J Landrigan
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029 6574, USA
Int J Occup Med Environ Health 17:175-7. 2004..Evidence is accumulating that children's exposure to toxic chemicals in the environment is contributing to changing patterns of pediatric disease... - Assessing the effects of endocrine disruptors in the National Children's StudyPhilip Landrigan
Center for Children s Health and the Environment, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
Environ Health Perspect 111:1678-82. 2003.... - What causes autism? Exploring the environmental contributionPhilip J Landrigan
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Children s Environmental Health Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA
Curr Opin Pediatr 22:219-25. 2010..However, they account for only a small fraction of cases, and do not easily explain key clinical and epidemiological features. This suggests that early environmental exposures also contribute. This review explores this hypothesis... - New academic partnerships in global health: innovations at Mount Sinai School of MedicinePhilip J Landrigan
Mount Sinai Global Health, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Mt Sinai J Med 78:470-82. 2011.... - Children's vulnerability to toxic chemicals: a challenge and opportunity to strengthen health and environmental policyPhilip J Landrigan
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, in New York City, NY, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 30:842-50. 2011.... - Environmental pollutants and disease in American children: estimates of morbidity, mortality, and costs for lead poisoning, asthma, cancer, and developmental disabilitiesPhilip J Landrigan
The Center for Children s Health and the Environment and The Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
Environ Health Perspect 110:721-8. 2002..The costs of pediatric environmental disease are high, in contrast with the limited resources directed to research, tracking, and prevention... - Chronic effects of toxic environmental exposures on children's healthPhilip J Landrigan
Center for Children s Health and the Environment, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
J Toxicol Clin Toxicol 40:449-56. 2002..The protection of children against environmental toxins is a major challenge to modern society... - Children's health and the environment: an overviewPhilip J Landrigan
Department of Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Mt Sinai J Med 78:1-10. 2011.... - Chemical contaminants in breast milk and their impacts on children's health: an overviewPhilip J Landrigan
Center for Children s Health and the Environment, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
Environ Health Perspect 110:A313-5. 2002..Finally, current risk assessment methods need to be expanded to include consideration of the potential risks posed to infants and children by exposures to chemical residues in breast milk... - Increased rates of asthma among World Trade Center disaster respondersHyun Kim
Department of Population Health, Hofstra North Shore LIJ School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
Am J Ind Med 55:44-53. 2012..Studies have documented high rates of asthma symptoms among responders to the World Trade Center (WTC) disaster. However, whether there are increased rates of asthma among responders compared to the general population is unknown... - The environment in pediatric practice: a study of New York pediatricians' attitudes, beliefs, and practices towards children's environmental healthLeonardo Trasande
Center for Children s Health and the Environment, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L Levy Place, Box 1057, New York, NY 10029, USA
J Urban Health 83:760-72. 2006..Significant demand exists for specialized centers of excellence that can evaluate environmental health concerns, and for educational opportunities... - Pediatrician attitudes, clinical activities, and knowledge of environmental health in WisconsinLeonardo Trasande
Center for Children s Health and the Environment, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
WMJ 105:45-9. 2006..Significant demand exists for centers that can evaluate environmental health concerns, as well as for educational opportunities... - The National Children's Study and the children of WisconsinLeonardo Trasande
Center for Children s Health and the Environment, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
WMJ 105:50-4. 2006..In addition, the National Children's Study will provide training in pediatric environmental health for the next generation of researchers and practitioners... - Applying cost analyses to drive policy that protects children: mercury as a case studyLeonardo Trasande
Center for Children s Health and the Environment, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1076:911-23. 2006..0 billion annually (range: $143 million-$3.3 billion). Preliminary data suggest that more stringent mercury policy options would prevent thousands of cases of MR and billions of dollars over the next 25 years... - Children who lost a parent as a result of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001: registry construction and population descriptionClaude M Chemtob
Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Box 1230, One Gustave Levy Place, New York City, NY 10029, USA
Death Stud 31:87-100. 2007..The construction of registries of severely affected people post-disaster should become government policy to obviate the need to use ad hoc methods to construct lists of high-risk individuals... - WTC medical monitoring and treatment program: comprehensive health care response in aftermath of disasterJacqueline M Moline
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Mt Sinai J Med 75:67-75. 2008.... - Environment and obesity in the National Children's StudyLeonardo Trasande
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L Levy Place, Box 1043, New York, NY 10029 USA
Environ Health Perspect 117:159-66. 2009..In this review we describe the approach taken by the National Children's Study (NCS), a 21-year prospective study of 100,000 American children, to understanding the role of environmental factors in the development of obesity... - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration risk assessment on lead in women's and children's vitamins is based on outdated assumptionsAmir Miodovnik
Children s Environmental Health Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
Environ Health Perspect 117:1021-2. 2009..The FDA compared estimated Pb exposures from each product with safe/tolerable exposure levels, termed provisional total tolerable intake (PTTI) levels, previously developed for at-risk population groups in 1992... - Global climate change and children's health: threats and strategies for preventionPerry E Sheffield
Department of Preventive Medicine and Pediatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
Environ Health Perspect 119:291-8. 2011..Global climate change will have multiple effects on human health. Vulnerable populations-children, the elderly, and the poor-will be disproportionately affected... - "Sarcoid like" granulomatous pulmonary disease in World Trade Center disaster respondersLaura E Crowley
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, USA
Am J Ind Med 54:175-84. 2011..Studies on WTC firefighters have shown elevated rates of sarcoidosis. The main objective of this study was to report the incidence of "sarcoid like" granulomatous pulmonary disease in other WTC responders... - Mental retardation and prenatal methylmercury toxicityLeonardo Trasande
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Center for Children s Health and the Environment, Mt Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave K Levy Place, Box 1043, New York, NY 10029, USA
Am J Ind Med 49:153-8. 2006..S. birth cohort is estimated, and the portion of this burden attributable to mercury (Hg) emissions from coal-fired power plants is identified... - Body burdens of polybrominated diphenyl ethers among urban anglersKimberly B Morland
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
Environ Health Perspect 113:1689-92. 2005..These findings suggest that consumption of locally caught fish is not a major route of human exposure for this study population... - Public health and economic consequences of methyl mercury toxicity to the developing brainLeonardo Trasande
Center for Children s Health and the Environment, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, USA
Environ Health Perspect 113:590-6. 2005..This significant toll threatens the economic health and security of the United States and should be considered in the debate on mercury pollution controls... - Body burdens of mercury in lower Hudson River area anglersAlayne K Gobeille
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Environ Res 101:205-12. 2006..0 ng/mL, SE=1.2) or never at all (M=1.3 ng/mL, SE=1.1). These findings indicate that consumption of fish caught from the lower Hudson River area is a route of human exposure to mercury for the angling community... - Exposure to indoor pesticides during pregnancy in a multiethnic, urban cohortGertrud S Berkowitz
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029 6574, USA
Environ Health Perspect 111:79-84. 2003..These data underscore the need to assess the potentially adverse effects of pesticide exposure on fetuses and infants and the importance of finding alternative methods for pest management to reduce pesticide exposures... - Pesticide testing in humans: ethics and public policyChristopher Oleskey
Center for Children s Health and the Environment, Box 1043, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustav L Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, USA
Environ Health Perspect 112:914-9. 2004..Participants also strongly encouraged active biomonitoring of every pesticide currently in use to track human exposure, particularly in vulnerable populations, and to assess adverse effects on health... - The World Trade Center disaster and the health of workers: five-year assessment of a unique medical screening programRobin Herbert
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Environ Health Perspect 114:1853-8. 2006..These workers included traditional first responders, such as firefighters and police, and a diverse population of construction, utility, and public sector workers... - Integrated pest management in an urban community: a successful partnership for preventionBarbara L Brenner
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York 10029 6547, USA
Environ Health Perspect 111:1649-53. 2003..These findings demonstrate that individually tailored IPM can be successful and cost-effective in an urban community... - Essays in public health and preventive medicinePhilip J Landrigan
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Mt Sinai J Med 73:564. 2006 - Fish consumption and body burden of organochlorines among lower Hudson urban anglersKimberly Morland
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA
Am J Ind Med 51:587-94. 2008..Although body burdens and health effects resulting from exposure to these pollutants have been measured in other populations, little is known about anglers from the lower Hudson area... - Multiple myeloma in World Trade Center responders: a case seriesJacqueline M Moline
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
J Occup Environ Med 51:896-902. 2009..We report on cases of multiple myeloma (MM) observed in World Trade Center (WTC) responders registered in the WTC Medical Program... - A propensity score analysis of brief worksite crisis interventions after the World Trade Center disaster: implications for intervention and researchJoseph A Boscarino
Division of Health and Science Policy, The New York Academy of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
Med Care 44:454-62. 2006..However, studies and systematic reviews have challenged the effectiveness of these efforts... - Enduring mental health morbidity and social function impairment in world trade center rescue, recovery, and cleanup workers: the psychological dimension of an environmental health disasterJeanne Mager Stellman
Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
Environ Health Perspect 116:1248-53. 2008..This program has established a large cohort of WTC rescue, recovery, and cleanup workers. We previously documented extensive pulmonary dysfunction in this cohort related to toxic environmental exposures... - Environment and Obesity in the National Children's StudyLeonardo Trasande
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA, 10029
Cien Saude Colet 15:195-210. 2010..A major secondary benefit will derive from the banking of specimens for future analysis... - Prepregnancy body mass index, smoking during pregnancy, and infant birth weightMichele La Merrill
Department of Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
Ann Epidemiol 21:413-20. 2011..We investigated the combined effect of prenatal smoking and prepregnancy BMI on risk of SGA and on birth weight... - Water privatization, water source, and pediatric diarrhea in Bolivia: epidemiologic analysis of a social experimentJeffrey A Tornheim
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Int J Occup Environ Health 15:241-8. 2009..Results suggest that water source, water provider, and in-home water treatment are important predictors of pediatric diarrhea... - Environmental Health Perspectives and children's environmental healthBrenda Eskenazi
Environ Health Perspect 110:A559-60. 2002 - Environmental health for practicing pediatriciansRuth A Etzel
George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Washington, D.C, USA
Indian Pediatr 40:853-60. 2003 - The World Trade Center disaster and intrauterine growth restrictionGertrud S Berkowitz
JAMA 290:595-6. 2003 - Obesity in the 21st centuryMaida P Galvez
Environ Health Perspect 111:A684-5. 2003 - Environmental threats to children's health in Southeast Asia and the Western PacificWilliam A Suk
Center for Risk and Integrated Sciences, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
Environ Health Perspect 111:1340-7. 2003.... - Prenatal methylmercury exposure in the SeychellesPhilip J Landrigan
Lancet 362:666; author reply 666-7. 2003 - Tracking children's health to age 21E Stephen Edwards
Science 302:781. 2003 - Ethics of pesticide testing in humansPhilip J Landrigan
Environ Health Perspect 111:A750; author reply A750. 2003 - Environmental pediatrics and its impact on government health policyLynn Goldman
Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 20815, USA
Pediatrics 113:1146-57. 2004..More recently, these issues have been taken up by states and in the international arena... - The faroes statement: human health effects of developmental exposure to chemicals in our environmentPhilippe Grandjean
Basic Clin Pharmacol Toxicol 102:73-5. 2008 - Statement of the Collegium RamazziniMorando Soffritti
Am J Ind Med 46:88. 2004 - The National Children's Study: a critical national investmentLeonardo Trasande
Environ Health Perspect 112:A789-90. 2004 - Methylmercury and the developing brainLeonardo Trasande
Environ Health Perspect 115:A396-7; author reply A397-8. 2007 - Organochlorine chemicals and children's healthMary S Wolff
J Pediatr 140:10-3. 2002 - The worldwide problem of lead in petrolPhilip J Landrigan
Bull World Health Organ 80:768. 2002 - Children's health and the environment: a transatlantic dialoguePhilip J Landrigan
Environ Health Perspect 113:A646-7. 2005 - Collegium Ramazzini statement on the Tokyo Declaration banning asbestosPhilip J Landrigan
Am J Ind Med 48:89-90. 2005 - Framing the future in light of the past: living in a chemical worldPhilip J Landrigan
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Collegium Ramazzini
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1076:657-9. 2006 - Pediatric environmental health competencies for specialistsRuth A Etzel
George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Washington, DC, USA
Ambul Pediatr 3:60-3. 2003..Because environmental health problems are complex and require specialty training, the Ambulatory Pediatric Association initiated a 3-year postgraduate fellowship in Pediatric Environmental Health... - Collegium Ramazzini call for an international ban on asbestosPhilip J Landrigan
Am J Ind Med 47:471-4. 2005 - Grand rounds: nephrotoxicity in a young child exposed to uranium from contaminated well waterH Sonali Magdo
Western University of Health Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, Pomona, California, USA
Environ Health Perspect 115:1237-41. 2007..Families that rely on private wells are thus at risk of exposure to a variety of unmeasured contaminants... - What level of lead in blood is toxic for a child?Herbert L Needleman
Am J Public Health 94:8; author reply 9. 2004
Research Grants
- Research Training Program in Environmental PediatricsPhilip Landrigan; Fiscal Year: 2007..It links to a Center for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research; a Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit; and a recently established Vanguard Center for the National Children's Study. ..
- ORGANOCHLORINES AND METALS IN NEW YORK AND THE HUDSONPhilip Landrigan; Fiscal Year: 2006..abstract_text> ..