Dr. Gwen Collman is the Acting Deputy Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), where she helps to drive the formulation and implementation of plans and policies necessary to carry out the NIEHS mission.
Updated February 27, 2023 Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition (MBCC) is calling on residents across the Commonwealth to lend their support to legislation that would enforce the disclosure of potentially toxic chemicals within children’s products in Massachusetts. To find your legislator, please click here. Join MBCC in our efforts to protect future generations! _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Article: Gwen Collman, Ph.D., acting deputy director of NIEHS, received the inaugural Margo Simon Golden Distinguished Service Award from the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition (MBCC) on Jan. 20. Read the full article
On October 5, 2021, California became the seventh state to pass legislation to ban PFAS in food packaging. PFAS chemicals have been linked to a wide range of health effects including immune system toxicity, elevated cholesterol, delayed mammary gland development, effects on the thyroid and liver, and cancer. Scientists are concerned that exposure to chemicals … Read more
When Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition (MBCC) started this work in 1991, we all had great hope that we would find the answers to our questions on how to prevent the environmental causes of breast cancer. While there has been progress, here we are now, 30 years later, with perhaps more questions than answers.
