Tag: Immigrant communities

Senior Agents of Change fellow Michelle Gin speaks with Michael Xiong of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency about the dangers of skin lightening products that contain mercury.

“El término de justicia ambiental no llegó hasta más tarde. Cuando comenzó el movimiento de los trabajadores agrícolas, ya estaba sucediendo pero no es como se llamaba”.

“The environmental justice term didn’t come until later. When the farmworker movement started it was already happening but it’s not what it was called.”

Los participantes en la investigación de la salud pública merecen respuestas, información y respeto.

Dr. MỹDzung Chu joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss the intersection of housing security and public health.

Participants in public health research deserve answers, information, and respect.

Rodrigo Alatriste-Diaz is a PhD candidate in Development Sociology at Cornell University and researcher at UC Merced’s Community and Labor Center.

Michelle Gin, MPH is an Environmental Health Supervisor for Community Outreach and Engagement in the Environmental Health Division of Ramsey County Public Health Department in Minnesota.

MyDzung T. Chu, PhD, MSPH, is the Faculty Investigator at the Center for Community-Engaged Medicine in the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies and the Director of the ADAPT (Addressing Disparities in Asian Populations through Translational Research) Coalition at Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute.

Brenda M. Trejo Rosas, MPH is a PhD Candidate in the Environmental and Occupational Health Department at The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, where she is a recipient of the Mary B. Cowart & Patti Herbert Endowed Scholarship for Women and serves as Vice President for the award winning Delta Omega Honorary Society, Omega chapter. Brenda is also a 2007...