Environmental Exposures in Underserved Southwest Populations (RFG1) News

To ensure that Indigenous peoples’ rights and knowledge are recognized in scientific data and scholarly publishing, a team of Indigenous scholars led by Lydia Jennings, an assistant professor of environmental studies, has established Guidelines for the Governance of Indigenous Peoples’ Data in Scholarly Publishing.

The Pima County Department of Environmental Quality (PDEQ), in collaboration with faculty from the Zuckerman College of Public Health at the University of Arizona, recently launched a network to monitor air quality at several schools in the county.

Extreme heat is a familiar part of living in Southern Arizona. Many know it comes with an increased risk of heat-related illness, but a new effort is helping raise awareness of an often-overlooked contributor – medications.

We are excited to announce that HAS Associate Professor Bo Guo has been selected as the 2027 NGWA Darcy Lecturer!

This month, 49 speakers and 424 participants gathered at the 2026 National PFAS Conference held at the University of Arizona to discuss educational resources, connections and research-backed strategies relating to PFAS. Read more in this article.

The 2026 National PFAS Conference takes place June 8-10 at the University of Arizona, the fifth gathering in a series that began at Northeastern University in 2017. The conference, held every other year, is one of the few national conferences devoted entirely to PFAS, and one of the only ones designed around the people living with the contamination very closely.

Researchers at the University of Arizona Comprehensive Cancer Center are conducting a clinical research trial with the Tucson Fire Department to evaluate whether an over-the-counter dietary supplement made from broccoli seed and sprout extracts can help the body detoxify and eliminate harmful chemical exposures that firefighters may encounter during their work.

People often come into contact with pesticides in everyday life without realizing it. Melissa Furlong talks about the long-term effects of pesticides and PFAS on human health.

As national debates intensify over bans on spreading biosolids on farmland, University of Arizona’s College of Agriculture, Life, and Environmental Science researchers are leading a national effort to assess the true risk of PFAS contamination.

Ladd Keith was one of two people selected from the National Academy of Sciences to present at the annual Frontiers of Science Symposium, click to learn more.