Category: awards and achievements

Center for Environmental Exposures and Disease

First Risk Assessment Boot Camp Co-sponsored by EOHSI -January 10 & 11, 2019

First Risk Assessment Boot Camp Co-sponsored by EOHSI -January 10 & 11, 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4iuHEI5zdw On Jan 10-11, 2019, the first annual Boot Camp for Risk Assessment was held in the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute at Rutgers University. Over the two days, the lecture topics included risk analysis, systematic review, data quality, weight of…
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January 17, 2019 0

NJTV News Interview with Emily Barrett, Ph.D.: Asbestos in Baby Talc Powder Linked to a Variety of Cancers

NJTV News Interview with Emily Barrett, Ph.D.: Asbestos in Baby Talc Powder Linked to a Variety of Cancers “Both the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Health and Human Services have named asbestos as a carcinogen, so that’s a chemical that causes cancer in the body. So it’s been linked to a variety of…
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January 4, 2019 0

Helmut Zarbl Discusses the Impact of Daylight Saving Time on the Body

Helmut Zarbl, director of the Rutgers Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute and chair of the Environmental and Occupational Health Department at Rutgers School of Public Health, is an expert in circadian rhythm and its influence on sleep-wake cycles, hormone release, eating habits and more. We asked him to explain how daylight savings time affects us.…
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November 2, 2018 0