In my interview of Dr. Frederica Perera (professor at the Mailman School of Public Health and Director of the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health), I asked about her current work on environmental health issues. This video contains her responses to the prompts listed below.
(Duration 12:57)
Contents
- Why did you begin studying inner-city communities in New York? 00:40
- Please describe your work at the Center for Children’s Environmental Health at Columbia. 02:00
- Please say more about how your new epidemiological methods work and what you’ve learned? 05:15
- What have you found about prenatal exposures to air pollutants and other toxic chemicals? 06:50
- Have you seen examples of where decreased toxic exposures have yielded positive health effects? 09:10
- What can you say about the interrelationship of toxic chemicals and climate change on young children? 10:10