Tracey J. Woodruff, PhD, MPH, the former EPA scientist and Alison S. Carlson Endowed Professor who has led the UC San Francisco Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE) since 2007, is leaving for Stanford University, where she will launch a new research and policy group focused on toxic chemicals. She will be departing PRHE … Continue reading Leadership change announced at PRHE
Dr. Tracey Woodruff testified today at the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works hearing on "Examining the Beneficial Use and Regulation of Chemicals”. The following is her full testimony. Testimony before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Chemical Safety, Waste Management, Environmental Justice, and Regulatory Oversight Tracey J. Woodruff, PhD, … Continue reading Chemical regulation needs to protect health, Woodruff testifies
The new MAHA action plan provides evidence that industry stepped in and said, ‘not while we are in charge.’ What’s telling is not only what’s in the report, but what has been removed from the report, including any effort to address corporate capture of regulatory agencies by the chemical industry. In some places, the MAHA … Continue reading MAHA plan fails to recommend real solutions to rising chronic disease
Dr. Tracey J. Woodruff, PhD, professor and director of the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment and the Center to End Corporate Harm at UCSF issued the following statement upon release of the Make America Healthy Again Commission report. We welcome the MAHA Commission report’s recognition that toxic chemicals and corporate influence on science … Continue reading Statement on Make America Healthy Again Commission report
What does the chemical spill from the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment, Florida’s red tide, and chemicals in household cleaning products have in common? They all rely on EPA’s Office of Research and Development (ORD) to figure out how toxic they are and how they harm your health and the environment. Now the new administration … Continue reading They are shutting down EPA’s science.
Thousands of previously internal industry documents called the “Poison Papers” are now freely available for public review and research in University of California, San Francisco’s Industry Documents Library (IDL). The “Poison Papers” include approximately 5,000 digitized copies of materials gathered primarily by Carol Van Strum, who reportedly collected over 100,000 documents from her battles with … Continue reading “Poison Papers” documents now at UCSF Library
First, they started the process of rolling back a Biden-era initiative to replace lead pipes. Then they took steps to delay a long-needed rule banning most uses of trichloroethylene (TCE), a chemical linked to cancer. These are just two moves the Trump Administration and Republican-led Congress made in their first weeks that expose people to … Continue reading Advice for a new administration to protect people from toxic chemicals
As rising chronic disease trends are driven, in part, by exposures to harmful chemicals, pollutants, and plastics, a team of more than 30 environmental health experts led by scientists at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) developed the first decision-making framework for environmental health that prioritizes prevention rather than continuing to allow environmental harms that … Continue reading Scientists launch new tool to prioritize people’s health in government decision-making
Dr. Tracey J. Woodruff, PhD, professor and director of the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment and the EaRTH Center at UCSF issued the following statement today upon Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s confirmation as Secretary of Health and Human Services. We face an epidemic of chronic disease fueled by industrial polluters including the chemical, … Continue reading Statement on RFK Jr Confirmation to HHS Secretary
Health-harming products including fossil fuels, plastics, petrochemicals, tobacco, alcohol and ultra-processed foods are contributing to a rise in chronic disease Industries that produce health-harming products have waged a decades-long assault on science and regulations designed to protect health, ultimately rigging rules in their favor, say scientists behind a new Center to End Corporate Harm at … Continue reading New Center to End Corporate Harm launches
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