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Young RL, Weinberg J, Vieira VM, Aschengrau A, Webster TF. A multilevel non-hierarchical study of birth weight and socioeconomic status. International Journal of Health Geographics 2010, 9:36 [Online 9 July 2010]. The full text is freely available doi:10.1186/1476-072X-9-36.

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Differences in exposure by socioeconomic position, race/ethnicity, gender, and geography.

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Differences in exposure by socioeconomic position, race/ethnicity, gender, age, and geography.

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Several people in my department are involved in these and other related topics. Here's just sample of my interests.

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Several people in my department are involved in these and other related topics. Here's a sample of my interests.

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Differences in exposure by socioeconomic position and race/ethnicity.

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Differences in exposure by socioeconomic position, race/ethnicity, gender, and geography.

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Asking participants in a breastmilk biomonitoring study how they felt about participation and reporting of results.

The results are presented in our publications listed below.

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Asking participants in a breastmilk biomonitoring study how they felt about participation and reporting of results. The results are presented in our publications listed below.

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Breastmilk monitoring is a standard method for measuring many persistent organic pollutants (POPs) because it is less physically invasive than sampling blood and breastmilk has a much higher fat content, making the analysis easier (most POPs are fat soluble). But it has been argued, without a lot of evidence either way, that this scare mothers from breastfeeding (which would be bad, because breastfeeding is a good thing).

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Breastmilk monitoring is a standard method for measuring many persistent organic pollutants (POPs) because it is less physically invasive than sampling blood and breastmilk has a much higher fat content, making the analysis easier (most POPs are fat soluble). But it has been argued, without a lot of evidence either way, that this may scare mothers from breastfeeding (which would be bad).

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Breastmilk monitoring is a standard method for measuring many persistent organic pollutants (POPs) because it is less physically invasive than sampling blood and has a much higher fat content, making the analysis easier (most POPs are fat soluble). But it has been argued, without a lot of evidence either way, that this scare mothers from breastfeeding (which would be bad, because breastfeeding is a good thing).

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Breastmilk monitoring is a standard method for measuring many persistent organic pollutants (POPs) because it is less physically invasive than sampling blood and breastmilk has a much higher fat content, making the analysis easier (most POPs are fat soluble). But it has been argued, without a lot of evidence either way, that this scare mothers from breastfeeding (which would be bad, because breastfeeding is a good thing).

November 26, 2009, at 10:03 PM by twebster -

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One newer interest is biomonitoring, the measurement of chemicals in typically urine or blood as a marker of exposure. An example is the CDC's extraordinarily valuable National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) which, among other things, measures chemicals in a representative sample of the US population.

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One newer interest is biomonitoring, the measurement of chemicals, often in urine or blood, as a marker of exposure. An example is the CDC's extraordinarily valuable National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) which, among other things, measures chemicals in a representative sample of the US population.

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A really old paper: Anderson S, Gardner B, Moll B, Tribble G, Webster T, Wilson K, Zyda M (1978). Correlation Between Air Pollution and Socio-economic Factors in Los Angeles County. Atmospheric Environment 12:1531-1535. more.

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Communities with exposure to hazardous chemicals

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Communities with exposure to hazardous chemicals (see also spatial epidemiology)

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Differences in disease by socioeconomic position and race/ethnicity. This work has ties to our work in spatial epidemiology.

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Differences in disease by socioeconomic position and race/ethnicity. This work has ties to spatial epidemiology.

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Differences in disease and its relationship to socioeconomic position and race/ethnicity. This work has ties to our work in spatial epidemiology.
Differences in exposure and its relationship to socioeconomic position and race/ethnicity.

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Differences in disease by socioeconomic position and race/ethnicity. This work has ties to our work in spatial epidemiology.
Differences in exposure by socioeconomic position and race/ethnicity.

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Environmental health disparities\\

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Environmental health disparities

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We are interested in differences in disease or exposure and its relationship to socioeconomic position and race/ethnicity. This work has ties to both our interest in exposures assessment and spatial epidemiology.

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Differences in disease and its relationship to socioeconomic position and race/ethnicity. This work has ties to our work in spatial epidemiology.
Differences in exposure and its relationship to socioeconomic position and race/ethnicity.

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Environmental health disparities\\

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Environmental health disparities\\

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Differences in disease or exposure and its relationship to socioeconomic position and race/ethnicity

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Environmental health disparities

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Environmental health disparities We are interested in differences in disease or exposure and its relationship to socioeconomic position and race/ethnicity. This work has ties to both our interest in exposures assessment and spatial epidemiology.

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Webster TF, Hoffman K, Weinberg J, Vieira V, Aschengrau A. Community and Individual-Level Socioeconomic Status and Breast Cancer Risk: Multi-level Modeling on Cape Cod, MA. Environ Health Perspect 2008; 116(8):1125-1129. doi:10.1289/ehp.10818. [Online 25 April 2008]. The full text is freely available here.

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Differences in disease or exposure and its relationship to socioeconomic position and race/ethnicity

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Several people in my department are involved in these and other related topics.

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Several people in my department are involved in these and other related topics. Here's just sample of my interests.

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The Department of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Healthh has a long-standing interest and commitment to the community context of environmental health. Examples include:

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The Department of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health has a long-standing interest and commitment to the community context of environmental health. Examples include:

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The Department of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health has a long-standing interest and commitment to the community context of environmental health. Examples include:

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The Department of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Healthh has a long-standing interest and commitment to the community context of environmental health. Examples include:

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International Environmental Health\\

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International Environmental Health

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A recent interest is contamination of communities in China resulting from e-waste and manufacture of flame retardants, including PBDEs. Dr. Webster participated in 2009 in a conference on fire retardants in Beijing. The conference was discussed in a news article in Science.

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A recent interest is contamination of communities in China resulting from e-waste and manufacture of flame retardants, including PBDEs. Dr. Webster participated in a 2009 conference on fire retardants in Beijing. The conference was discussed in a news article in Science.

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A recent interest is contamination of communities in China resulting from e-waste and manufacture of flame retardants, including [ExposureToPBDEs|PBDEs]]. Dr. Webster participated in 2009 in a conference on fire retardants in Beijing. The conference was discussed in a news article in Science.

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A recent interest is contamination of communities in China resulting from e-waste and manufacture of flame retardants, including PBDEs. Dr. Webster participated in 2009 in a conference on fire retardants in Beijing. The conference was discussed in a news article in Science.

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A recent interest is contamination of communities in China resulting from e-waste and manufacture of flame retardants, including PBDEs. Dr. Webster participated in 2009 in a conference on fire retardants in Beijing. The conference was discussed in a news article in Science.

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A recent interest is contamination of communities in China resulting from e-waste and manufacture of flame retardants, including [ExposureToPBDEs|PBDEs]]. Dr. Webster participated in 2009 in a conference on fire retardants in Beijing. The conference was discussed in a news article in Science.

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A recent interest is contamination of communities in China resulting from e-waste. Dr. Webster participated in 2009 in a conference on fire retardants in Beijing. The conference was discussed in a news article in Science.

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A recent interest is contamination of communities in China resulting from e-waste and manufacture of flame retardants, including PBDEs. Dr. Webster participated in 2009 in a conference on fire retardants in Beijing. The conference was discussed in a news article in Science.

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Communities with exposure to hazardous chemicals)

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Communities with exposure to hazardous chemicals

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Communities with exposure to hazardous chemicals (several people in my department do this!)

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Communities with exposure to hazardous chemicals)

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Several people in my department are involved in these and other related topics.

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A recent interest is contamination of communities in China resulting from e-waste. Dr. Webster participated in 2009 in a conference on fire retardants in Beijing.

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A recent interest is contamination of communities in China resulting from e-waste. Dr. Webster participated in 2009 in a conference on fire retardants in Beijing. The conference was discussed in a news article in Science.

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Communities with exposure to hazardous chemicals (many people in my department do this!)

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Communities with exposure to hazardous chemicals (several people in my department do this!)

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International Environmental Health
* A recent interest is contamination of communities in China resulting from e-waste. Dr. Webster participated in 2009 in a conference on fire retardants in Beijing.

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The work of many people in my department concerning communities with exposure to hazardous chemicals.

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Communities with exposure to hazardous chemicals (many people in my department do this!)

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Biomonitoring\

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Biomonitoring\\

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Biomonitoring\

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The Department of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health has a long-standing interest and commitment to the community context of environmental health. Examples include our work in communities with exposure to hazardous chemicals.

One newer interest is biomonitoring, the measurement of chemicals in typically urine or blood as a marker of exposure. An example is the CDC's extraordinarily valuable National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) which, among other things, measures chemicals in a representative sample of the US population.

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The Department of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health has a long-standing interest and commitment to the community context of environmental health. Examples include:

The work of many people in my department concerning communities with exposure to hazardous chemicals.
International environmental health
Biomonitoring

Biomonitoring One newer interest is biomonitoring, the measurement of chemicals in typically urine or blood as a marker of exposure. An example is the CDC's extraordinarily valuable National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) which, among other things, measures chemicals in a representative sample of the US population.

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One newer interest is biomonitoring, the measurement of chemicals in typically urine or blood as a marker of exposure. An example is the CDC's extraordinarily valuable National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) which, among other things, measures chemicals in a representative sample of the US population.

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One newer interest is biomonitoring, the measurement of chemicals in typically urine or blood as a marker of exposure. An example is the CDC's extraordinarily valuable National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) which, among other things, measures chemicals in a representative sample of the US population.

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The results are presented in our publications below

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The results are presented in our publications listed below.

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A consensus conference on biomonitoring, involving non-expert Boston-area residents. Read about the 2006 Boston Consensus Conference on Biomonitoring.

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A Danish-style consensus conference on biomonitoring, involving non-expert Boston-area residents: the 2006 Boston Consensus Conference on Biomonitoring.

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Breastmilk monitoring is a standard method for measuring many persistent organic pollutants (POPs) because it is less physically invasive than sampling blood and has a much higher fat content (most POPs are fat soluble). But it has been argued, without a lot of evidence either way, that this scare mothers from breastfeeding (which would be bad, because breastfeeding is a good thing).

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Breastmilk monitoring is a standard method for measuring many persistent organic pollutants (POPs) because it is less physically invasive than sampling blood and has a much higher fat content, making the analysis easier (most POPs are fat soluble). But it has been argued, without a lot of evidence either way, that this scare mothers from breastfeeding (which would be bad, because breastfeeding is a good thing).

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Breast milk monitoring is a standard method for measuring many persistent organic pollutants (POPs) because it is less physically invasive than sampling blood and has a much higher fat content (most POPs are fat soluble). But it has been argued, without a lot of evidence either way, that this scare mothers from breastfeeding (which would be bad, because breastfeeding is a good thing).

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Breastmilk monitoring is a standard method for measuring many persistent organic pollutants (POPs) because it is less physically invasive than sampling blood and has a much higher fat content (most POPs are fat soluble). But it has been argued, without a lot of evidence either way, that this scare mothers from breastfeeding (which would be bad, because breastfeeding is a good thing).

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Should investigators report biomonitoring information to participants? Many people argue that participants have a right to this information. The traditional biomedical medical model argues against it, in part, because we often do not know what the results mean in terms of health.

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Should investigators report biomonitoring information to participants? Many people argue that participants have a right to this information. The traditional biomedical medical model argues against it, in part because we often do not know what the results mean in terms of health.

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Should investigators report biomonitoring information to participants? Many argue that participants have a right to this information. The traditional biomedical medical model argues against it, in part, because we often do not know what the results mean in terms of health.

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Should investigators report biomonitoring information to participants? Many people argue that participants have a right to this information. The traditional biomedical medical model argues against it, in part, because we often do not know what the results mean in terms of health.

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Read about the 2006 Boston Consensus Conference on Biomonitoring.

How do people feel about participating in a biomonitoring study?

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Among the questions posed by biomonitoring are:

Should investigators report biomonitoring information to participants? Many argue that participants have a right to this information. The traditional biomedical medical model argues against it, in part, because we often do not know what the results mean in terms of health.
Breast milk monitoring is a standard method for measuring many persistent organic pollutants (POPs) because it is less physically invasive than sampling blood and has a much higher fat content (most POPs are fat soluble). But it has been argued, without a lot of evidence either way, that this scare mothers from breastfeeding (which would be bad, because breastfeeding is a good thing).

To get at these and other questions, we participated in two studies:

A consensus conference on biomonitoring, involving non-expert Boston-area residents. Read about the 2006 Boston Consensus Conference on Biomonitoring.
Asking participants in a breastmilk biomonitoring study how they felt about participation and reporting of results.

The results are presented in our publications below

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One newer interest is biomonitoring, the measurement of chemicals in typically urine or blood as a marker of exposure.

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One newer interest is biomonitoring, the measurement of chemicals in typically urine or blood as a marker of exposure. An example is the CDC's extraordinarily valuable National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) which, among other things, measures chemicals in a representative sample of the US population.

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The Department of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health has a long-standing interest and commitment to the community context of environmental health.

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The Department of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health has a long-standing interest and commitment to the community context of environmental health. Examples include our work in communities with exposure to hazardous chemicals.

One newer interest is biomonitoring, the measurement of chemicals in typically urine or blood as a marker of exposure.

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The Department of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Publch health has a long-standing interest in the community context of environmental health.

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The Department of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health has a long-standing interest and commitment to the community context of environmental health.

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The Department of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Publch health has a long-standing interest in the community context of environmental health.

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Publications:

Wu N, McClean MD, Brown P, Aschengrau A, Webster TF. Participant Experiences in a Breastmilk Biomonitoring Study: A qualitative assessment. Environmental Health; 2009, 8:4. [Online 18 February 2009]. The full text is freely available doi:10.1186/1476-069X-8-4.

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Nelson JW, Scammell MK, Altman RG, Webster TF, Ozonoff DM. A New Spin on Research Translation: The Boston Consensus Conference on Human Biomonitoring. Environ Health Perspect. 2009; 117:495�499. [Online 30 October 2008]. The full text is freely available here.

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Read about the 2006 Boston Consensus Conference on Biomonitoring.

How do people feel about participating in a biomonitoring study?

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