Leo Trasande Upstream Interview - Part 1 (Introduction to Environmental Health)

Dr. Trasande co-directs the Children's Environmental Health Center at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine where he holds a joint appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine. Dr. Trasande's research interests span medicine and policy, but he is best known for his analyses of the economic impact of environmental toxins on child health, and is embarking on a series of analyses that document the immediate health and economic consequences of childhood obesity.

In this section of the interview, Dr. Trasande responds to the following questions:

How did you become interested in environmental health? 00:40
What environmental toxins are most dangerous for children today? 03:10
What diseases are those chemicals causing? 05:20

For more interviews of environmental health and environmental justice scientists and activists, go to my website: http://www.upstrm.org/.

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Science & Technology

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• Leo Trasande
• environmental health
• Mount Sinai Hospital
• environmental toxins