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Chemical of the Month: Ethylene Oxide

Op-ed for August 2022 edition of The Community Scientists: Chemical of the Month, led by RISE St. James.

The Community Scientists: Chemical of the Month

This is a digital collection for The Community Scientists: Chemical of the Month by

Chemical of the Month: Formaldehyde, October 2022

A digital collection for the September 2022 issue of RISE St. James' The Community Scientists: Chemical of the Month, focused on formaldehyde.

Chemical of the Month: Formaldehyde

Op-ed for October 2022 edition of RISE St. James' The Community Scientists: Chemical of the Month.

Chemical of the Month: Benzene, September 2022

A digital collection for the September 2022 issue of RISE St. James' The Community Scientists: Chemical of the Month, focused on benzene.

Chemical of the Month: Benzene

Op-ed for August 2022 edition of RISE St. James' The Community Scientists: Chemical of the Month.

Sunshine Project, Formosa Plastics, Louisiana

AK COVID-Development Studies Intersections

Aalok Khandekar

Annotation of

Transnational STS COVID-19 Project Participants

In response to

Where are you situated as COVID-19 plays out? What backstories shape your engagement with COVID-19? How can you be contacted? What questions and settings are you especially interested in following?

I am currently in the process of transitioning my M.A. level course on Science, Technology, and Development with 11 students to virtual instruction. One of my interests in engaging with COVID-19 is to examine how it (should) informs development ideologies and practices. How should students of development studies retool -- conceptually, methodologically, practically -- in wake of the pandemic?

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Sara_Nesheiwat

Annotation of

Mental Health Consequences of Disaster

In response to

Who are the authors, where do they work, and what are their areas of expertise? How is the author professionally situated in respect to emergency response? Note any other publications/research foci that are of relevance to the DSTS Network.

The authors are Emily Goldmann and Sandro Galea. Emily Goldmann is a PhD, MPH, and assistant research professor of global public health at the College of Global Public Health at NYU. Her work focuses on social and environmental determinants of mental health consequences of health events such as strokes. She has an interest in epidemiology and she studied economics and Mandarin as an undergraduate at Columbia University and got her Masters and PhD in epidemiology from University of Michigan.

Sandor Galea is an MD, MPH and DrPHD. He is the Dean at Boston University School of Public Health. He has worked at the University of Michigan and New York Academy of Medicine. His works centers around the social production of health of urban populations and he focuses on the causes of brain disorders. Both very public health oriented.