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People living and working in Detroit are exposed to elevated levels of a variety of air pollutants. Six years after releasing a Public Health Action Plan, work is moving forward on community initiatives to expand responses to air pollution in Detroit.
Recently, a University of Michigan School of Public Health research team released a new study in the journal Atmosphere that aims to identify these sources in an area of Michigan with some of the highest levels of air pollution in the country: Southwest Detroit.
Working with aerial and satellite imagery and more than 30,000 trees in Detroit, researchers from the University of Michigan set out in 2017 to find a better way to measure pollen.
A team of University of Michigan researchers from the School of Public Health DoGoodS-Pi Environmental Epigenetics Lab and Michigan Medicine are working to understand how behaviors and environments during pregnancy can cause changes to the way genes work in offspring. This emerging field is known as toxicoepigenetics.
Michigan Healthy Nail Salon Cooperative is an online, mobile-friendly training module teaches nail salon owners and employees how to mitigate exposure to chemicals and volatile organic compounds that are ubiquitous in salon products like polishes, removers, artificial nails, adhesives, glues and hardeners.
Amy J. Schulz, professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, writes an opinion piece about structural racism and its relation to the public health crisis for Detroit residents, particularly with clean water accessibility.