SWEHSC News

Associate Professor of Planning Ladd Keith spent two weeks in northeastern India teaching faculty and students about planning for extreme heat and helping to develop curricula for two new courses.

As the University of Arizona Superfund Research Center (UA SRC) begins its thirty-sixth year, it returns to the stewardship of the R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy, under the leadership of Xinxin Ding, PhD, department head of Pharmacology and Toxicology. With the recent renewal of this grant, the center received $15M over the next five years to continue addressing the unique human health risks encountered in the US Southwest, where distinct geological and climatic attributes affect human health and its exposure to a variety of toxicants, especially arsenic.

Melissa Furlong spoke with Tim Swindle, professor emeritus of Planetary Science at the University of Arizona about the health of the California firefighters.

The R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy hosts the State of the College Employee Appreciation Event, which brings together faculty and staff from both campuses to celebrate and provide updates on departmental achievements, shared key announcements, and honored members of our community whose work reflects the college’s mission and strengthens its people, programs, and profession.

Researchers from the University of Arizona, in partnership with South32 Hermosa, have launched a comprehensive Health Impact Assessment (HIA) to better understand and protect the health of local Arizona communities as the Hermosa project advances.

The University of Arizona has received a five-year federal grant of $14.8 million to help understand and mitigate health threats of dust from mine tailings and associated hazardous fungal spores, specifically within mining communities.

SWEHSC members gathered with other Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers in Kentucky.

The standard, which advises scientists and professionals how to record provenance for data about and from Indigenous Peoples’ nations, communities and territories, is the first of its kind and takes effect during Native American Heritage Month in the US.

A new standard developed with University of Arizona Indigenous data sovereignty expert Stephanie Russo Carroll at the helm outlines how scientists and technology professionals across an array of fields should record the provenance – or origin and history of use – for data about and relating to Indigenous Peoples.

The team of researchers from the U of A Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health followed 77 farmworkers in Sonora, Mexico for several months, regularly testing the workers’ blood and urine. The average age of the workers was 29 years old.