NIEHS Resources

Programs & Initiatives

• Community-engaged Research and Citizen Science
• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility, and Civility (DEIAC)
• Environmental Health Disparities and Environmental Justice
• Partnerships for Environmental Public Health (PEPH)
• West End Revitalization Association: Demonstrating the Value of Community-led Research to Address Environmental Justice Issues
• Worker Training Program: Training for Workers in Hazardous Environments

Environmental Factor Newsletter Articles

• Environmental Health Disparities Key Topic at International Conference
• Environmental Justice Champion Speaks on Challenges, Opportunities
• Environmental Justice Through Community-engaged Research
• Environmental Health Disparities, Racism Studies Collected at EHP
• Olden Distinguished Lecture Highlights Economic Inequality and Health
• Trainees at NIEHS Take on Equity and Justice
• Racial Health Inequities Addressed With NIEHS Research Funding
• The NIEHS Conversation on Race, Equity, and Inclusion
• Black History Month Speaker Takes on Health Care Disparities
• Diversity Speaker Series Addresses Native American Health Challenges

Environmental Health Perspectives

• Environmental Racism Collection: Exposure and Health Inequities in Black Americans

Federal Resources

• The White House – Justice40 Initiative
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) – Environmental Justice
• Government Accountability Office (GAO) – Environmental Justice: Federal Efforts Need Better Planning, Coordination, and Methods to Assess Progress

Webinars & Podcasts

• Boston University School of Public Health – Epidemiology and Race: Why and How We Study Racial Health Disparities
• Broken Ground – Women Fighting for Environmental Justice
• Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE) – Intersectionality and Environmental Justice
• EPA – Environmental Justice & Systemic Racism Speaker Series
• John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University – Book Talk with Catherine Coleman Flowers — "Waste": One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret
• National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation (nonprofit) – Stopping the Other Pandemic: Systemic Racism and Health
• University of Michigan School of Public Health – The Inequitable Impact of the Environment on Health
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – The Many Faces of Environmental (In)Justice: Scholarship Addressing Racism, Infrastructure and Climate Action

Community Engagement Training Modules

• University of California-Davis and University of Michigan – Building Equitable Partnerships for Environmental Justice
• University of Kentucky – Community Engaged Research: Initiating a Successful Community/Academic Partnership
• Washington State Department of Health – Community Engagement Guide (1MB)

Other Resources

• Collaboration between University of Richmond, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ("Virginia Tech"), University of Maryland, and Johns Hopkins University – Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America
• Duke Human Rights Center – "A Spotlight on Environmental Justice": An Interview With Catherine Coleman Flowers, After Being Named a 2020 Macarthur Fellow
• Environmental Health News – Helicopter Science Doesn’t Work — Environmental Justice Comes From Empowered Communities
• EPA – Study Finds Exposure to Air Pollution Higher for People of Color Regardless of Region or Income
• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine – Communities, Climate Change, and Health Equity: Proceedings of a Workshop – in Brief
• Workshop Commentary: Addressing Racism as a Public Health Issue Through the Lens of Environmental Health Disparities and Environmental Justice: From Problems to Solutions.,” held December 10, 2021

Academic Research Articles

1. Eaves LA, Keil AP, Rager JE, George A, Fry RC. 2022. Analysis of the novel NCWELL database highlights two decades of co-occurrence of toxic metals in North Carolina private well water: Public health and environmental justice implications. Sci Total Environ 812:151479. [Abstract Eaves LA, Keil AP, Rager JE, George A, Fry RC. 2022. Analysis of the novel NCWELL database highlights two decades of co-occurrence of toxic metals in North Carolina private well water: Public health and environmental justice implications. Sci Total Environ 812:151479.]
2. Jbaily A, Zhou X, Liu J, Lee TH, Kamareddine L, Verguet S, Dominici F. 2022. Air pollution exposure disparities across U.S. population and income groups. Nature 601(7892):228-233. [Abstract Jbaily A, Zhou X, Liu J, Lee TH, Kamareddine L, Verguet S, Dominici F. 2022. Air pollution exposure disparities across U.S. population and income groups. Nature 601(7892):228-233.]
3. Kiaghadi A, Rifai HS, Dawson CN. 2021. The presence of superfund sites as a determinant of life expectancy in the United States. Nat Commun 12(1):1947. [Abstract Kiaghadi A, Rifai HS, Dawson CN. 2021. The presence of superfund sites as a determinant of life expectancy in the United States. Nat Commun 12(1):1947.]
4. Collins FS, Adams AB, Aklin C, Archer TK, Bernard MA, Boone E, Burklow J, Evans MK, Jackson S, Johnson AC, Lorsch J, Lowden MR, Napoles AM, Ordonez AE, Rivers R, Rucker V, Schwetz T, Segre JA, Tabak LA, Hooper MW, Wolinetz C; NIH UNITE. 2021. Affirming NIH's commitment to addressing structural racism in the biomedical research enterprise. Cell 184(12):3075-3079. [Abstract Collins FS, Adams AB, Aklin C, Archer TK, Bernard MA, Boone E, Burklow J, Evans MK, Jackson S, Johnson AC, Lorsch J, Lowden MR, Napoles AM, Ordonez AE, Rivers R, Rucker V, Schwetz T, Segre JA, Tabak LA, Hooper MW, Wolinetz C; NIH UNITE. 2021. Affirming NIH's commitment to addressing structural racism in the biomedical research enterprise. Cell 184(12):3075-3079.]
5. Salas RN. 2021. Environmental racism and climate change — Missed diagnoses. N Engl J Med 385(11):967-969. [Abstract Salas RN. 2021. Environmental racism and climate change — Missed diagnoses. N Engl J Med 385(11):967-969.]
6. Krieger N. 2021. Structural racism, health Inequities, and the two-edged sword of data: Structural problems require structural solutions. Front Public Health 9:655447. [Abstract Krieger N. 2021. Structural racism, health Inequities, and the two-edged sword of data: Structural problems require structural solutions. Front Public Health 9:655447.]
7. Krieger N. 2021. Ecosocial Theory, Embodied Truths, and the People’s Health. New York: Oxford University Press.
8. Bassett MT, Chen JT, Krieger N. 2020. Variation in racial/ethnic disparities in COVID-19 mortality by age in the United States: A cross-sectional study. PLoS Med 17(10):e1003402. [Abstract Bassett MT, Chen JT, Krieger N. 2020. Variation in racial/ethnic disparities in COVID-19 mortality by age in the United States: A cross-sectional study. PLoS Med 17(10):e1003402.]
9. Krieger N, Wright E, Chen JT, Waterman PD, Huntley ER, Arcaya M. 2020. Cancer stage at diagnosis, historical redlining, and current neighborhood characteristics: Breast, cervical, Lung, and colorectal cancers, Massachusetts, 2001-2015. Am J Epidemiol 189(10):1065-1075 [Abstract Krieger N, Wright E, Chen JT, Waterman PD, Huntley ER, Arcaya M. 2020. Cancer stage at diagnosis, historical redlining, and current neighborhood characteristics: Breast, cervical, Lung, and colorectal cancers, Massachusetts, 2001-2015. Am J Epidemiol 189(10):1065-1075]
10. Cowger TL, Davis BA, Etkins OS, Makofane K, Lawrence JA, Bassett MT, Krieger N. 2020. Comparison of weighted and unweighted population data to assess inequities in coronavirus disease 2019 deaths by race/ethnicity reported by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. JAMA Netw Open 3(7):e2016933. [Abstract Cowger TL, Davis BA, Etkins OS, Makofane K, Lawrence JA, Bassett MT, Krieger N. 2020. Comparison of weighted and unweighted population data to assess inequities in coronavirus disease 2019 deaths by race/ethnicity reported by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. JAMA Netw Open 3(7):e2016933.]
11. Krieger N. 2020. Measures of racism, sexism, heterosexism, and gender binarism for health equity research: From structural injustice to embodied harm-an ecosocial analysis. Annu Rev Public Health 41:37-62. [Abstract Krieger N. 2020. Measures of racism, sexism, heterosexism, and gender binarism for health equity research: From structural injustice to embodied harm-an ecosocial analysis. Annu Rev Public Health 41:37-62.]
12. Zheng G, Miller P, von Hippel FA, Buck CL, Carpenter DO, Salamova A. 2020. Legacy and emerging semi-volatile organic compounds in sentinel fish from an arctic formerly used defense site in Alaska. Environ Pollut 259:113872. [Abstract Zheng G, Miller P, von Hippel FA, Buck CL, Carpenter DO, Salamova A. 2020. Legacy and emerging semi-volatile organic compounds in sentinel fish from an arctic formerly used defense site in Alaska. Environ Pollut 259:113872.]
13. Krieger N, Van Wye G, Huynh M, Waterman PD, Maduro G, Li W, Gwynn RC, Barbot O, Bassett MT. 2020. Structural racism, historical redlining, and risk of preterm birth in New York City, 2013-2017. Am J Public Health 110(7):1046-1053. [Abstract Krieger N, Van Wye G, Huynh M, Waterman PD, Maduro G, Li W, Gwynn RC, Barbot O, Bassett MT. 2020. Structural racism, historical redlining, and risk of preterm birth in New York City, 2013-2017. Am J Public Health 110(7):1046-1053.]
14. Krieger N. 2020. ENOUGH: COVID-19, structural racism, police brutality, plutocracy, climate change — and time for health justice, democratic governance, and an equitable, sustainable future. Am J Public Health 110(11):1620-1623. [Abstract Krieger N. 2020. ENOUGH: COVID-19, structural racism, police brutality, plutocracy, climate change — and time for health justice, democratic governance, and an equitable, sustainable future. Am J Public Health 110(11):1620-1623.]
15. Krieger N, Jahn JL, Waterman PD, Chen JT. 2018. Breast cancer estrogen receptor status according to biological generation: U.S. black and white women born 1915-1979. Am J Epidemiol 187(5):960-970. [Abstract Krieger N, Jahn JL, Waterman PD, Chen JT. 2018. Breast cancer estrogen receptor status according to biological generation: U.S. black and white women born 1915-1979. Am J Epidemiol 187(5):960-970.]
16. Byrne S, Seguinot-Medina S, Miller P, Waghiyi V, von Hippel FA, Buck CL, Carpenter DO. 2017. Exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers and perfluoroalkyl substances in a remote population of Alaska Natives. Environ Pollut 231(Pt 1):387-395. [Abstract Byrne S, Seguinot-Medina S, Miller P, Waghiyi V, von Hippel FA, Buck CL, Carpenter DO. 2017. Exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers and perfluoroalkyl substances in a remote population of Alaska Natives. Environ Pollut 231(Pt 1):387-395.]
17. Jagosh J, Bush PL, Salsberg J, Macaulay AC, Greenhalgh T, Wong G, Cargo M, Green LW, Herbert CP, Pluye P. 2015. A realist evaluation of community-based participatory research: Partnership synergy, trust building, and related ripple. BMC Public Health 15:725. [Abstract Jagosh J, Bush PL, Salsberg J, Macaulay AC, Greenhalgh T, Wong G, Cargo M, Green LW, Herbert CP, Pluye P. 2015. A realist evaluation of community-based participatory research: Partnership synergy, trust building, and related ripple. BMC Public Health 15:725.]
18. Wilson O. 2011. Lack of Basic Amenities: Indicators of health disparities in low-income minority communities and tribal areas. N C Med J 72(2):145-148. [Abstract Wilson O. 2011. Lack of Basic Amenities: Indicators of health disparities in low-income minority communities and tribal areas. N C Med J 72(2):145-148.]
19. Heaney C, Wilson S, Wilson O, Cooper J, Bumpass N, Snipes M. 2011. Use of community-owned and -managed research to assess the vulnerability of water and sewer services in marginalized and underserved environmental justice communities. J Environ Health 74(1):8-17. [Abstract Heaney C, Wilson S, Wilson O, Cooper J, Bumpass N, Snipes M. 2011. Use of community-owned and -managed research to assess the vulnerability of water and sewer services in marginalized and underserved environmental justice communities. J Environ Health 74(1):8-17.]
20. Wilson OR, Bumpass NG, Wilson OM, Snipes MH. 2008. The West End Revitalization Association (WERA)'s Right to Basic Amenities Movement: Voice and language of ownership and management of public health solutions in Mebane, North Carolina. Prog Community Health Partnersh 2(3):237-243. [Abstract Wilson OR, Bumpass NG, Wilson OM, Snipes MH. 2008. The West End Revitalization Association (WERA)'s Right to Basic Amenities Movement: Voice and language of ownership and management of public health solutions in Mebane, North Carolina. Prog Community Health Partnersh 2(3):237-243.]