Smoking cigarettes dramatically increases a person’s risk for a host of diseases, and there’s an assumption that electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, are not harmful because users do not inhale smoke... Read more »
Rebecca Fry, PhD, presented the first Tarheel Tox Talk, a new public outreach program from the UNC Curriculum in Toxicology. The informal, community presentation at a Chapel Hill restaurant Oct.... Read more »
The Community Outreach and Engagement Core (COEC) in the UNC-Chapel Hill Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility—together with COECs from the NIEHS Center for Environmental Health in Northern Manhattan at... Read more »
On Thursday August 18, Dr. Larry Engel, associate professor in the UNC Department of Epidemiology and UNC Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility member, was invited to present his research... Read more »
The UNC Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility (CEHS) congratulates its longtime member and collaborator Dr. Aziz Sancar for winning the 2015 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. In announcing the prize, the... Read more »
With more than two million North Carolina adults diagnosed with heart disease, asthma and other cardiopulmonary diseases, researchers in the Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility are committed to a... Read more »
The study of epigenetics, or how heritable changes in gene expression are caused by mechanisms other than DNA mutation, is increasingly the focus of environmental health sciences research, with more... Read more »
Asthma is a chronic lung disease that impacts 1 out of 10 North Carolina residents –particularly vulnerable populations, including African American and Native American communities and low-income households (North Carolina... Read more »
As climate change continues to emerge as a public health concern worldwide, researchers in the UNC Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility (CEHS) are connecting the associated increases in air... Read more »
The 2015 North Carolina Asthma Summit, an annual gathering of asthma clinicians and community health workers sponsored by the Asthma Alliance of North Carolina and the North Carolina Asthma Program,... Read more »
