January 2025: M-LEEaD Newsletter January 2025: Legislative Forum Recap, New EHS Textbook, More Member News to Share • Image caption: Speakers at the Legislative Forum, from left to right- Felix Valbuena, Miatta Buxton, Amy Schulz, and Marie O'Neill M-LEEaD’s Community Engagement Core (CEC) continued its history of legislative outreach by hosting a Legislative Forum on September 17th, 2024 in Lansing, MI. This year’s forum focused on the environmental impacts on birth outcomes in Michigan, exploring topics such as environmental exposures over the lifecourse, the effects of climate change on exposures and birth outcomes, and strategies to reduce these exposures while improving outcomes. The event brought together legislators and their staff, agency leaders, community members, and others invested in... Read more

November 2024: M-LEEaD Newsletter November 2024: EHSCC Annual Meeting Recap, Member News, and Upcoming Seminars • Image caption, clockwise from top left: 1) EHSCC Community Engagement Core attendees; 2) Kelly Bakulski and Jalonne White-Newsome at the Reginald Lewis Museum in Baltimore; 3) New Investigator Spotlight presentation; 4) EHSCC members at the Baltimore Community Tour, organized by CEC leaders; 5) Dana Dolinoy, Katherine Manz, Xin Wang, and Hao Wang at the meeting poster session. The 2024 NIEHS Environmental Health Sciences Core Center in-person meeting was hosted by Johns Hopkins University this past September. This annual meeting, with this year's theme of Community Exposomics, brought researchers, scientists, academics, and community members together to share their insights and expand... Read more