Webinars

Webinar Recording: The Breast Cancer Exposome: Uncovering the Role of Environmental Chemicals in Breast Cancer Etiology

Dr. Alexandra White is an environmental epidemiologist whose research focuses on identifying modifiable environmental exposures linked to cancer risk, particularly breast cancer. Her work examines how pollutants like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and metals contribute to breast carcinogenesis, leveraging large-scale studies such as the Long Island Breast Cancer Study Project and the Sister Study. She … Read more

Webinar Recording: 5th Annual Margo Simon Golden Memorial Webinar: Environmental Justice and Women’s Health

Dr. James-Todd is an environmental reproductive epidemiologist at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Director of the Environmental Reproductive Justice Lab. Her work focuses on the importance of pregnancy as a sensitive window of consumer product and environmental chemical exposures. She has been awarded the Estrellita and Yosuf Karsh Visiting Professorship in … Read more

2025 Update on the Pathologist’s Role in Breast Cancer Treatment

Webinar on pathologist’s role in breast cancer treatment

Dr. Misialek currently serves as Associate Chair of Pathology at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton, MA. He is the Medical Director of the Vernon Cancer Center, Chemistry Laboratory, and Point of Care Testing. He practices in all areas of pathology in a busy community hospital. Holding an academic appointment at Tufts University School of Medicine, he regularly … Read more

An Update on PFAS Health Effects and Exposure Research in Massachusetts

Webinar about PFAS health effects research in Massachusetts

Dr. Laurel Schaider is a Senior Scientist at Silent Spring Institute where she leads the Institute’s water quality research on PFAS and other contaminants of emerging concern. She studies PFAS chemicals in drinking water, consumer products, and food, drinking water contamination from septic systems, and environmental justice disparities in drinking water quality.

Webinar Recording: The Experiences of PFAS Contamination in Impacted Communities

Webinar on PFAS contamination in impacted communities.

Phil Brown is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Health Science at Northeastern University, where he directs the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute and, along with Professor Alissa Cordner of Whitman College, its PFAS Project lab (https://pfasproject.com). The lab has grants from NSF to study social policy and activism concerning PFAS, and, with Dr. … Read more