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Uncategorized / 20 March 2024 by John

Health Professionals on the Front Lines – Podcast

In the podcast below, you’ll hear about the role of “first responders” – those frontline health professionals who have been working to protect our environmental health; you’ll meet Dr. David Carpenter, Dr. Mark Mitchell, Joel Moskowitz, PhD, Raluca Radu RN,MPH, Dr. Paul Saoke, Barbara Sattler, RN, MPH, PhD, Tracey Woodruff, MPH, PhD and hear about their engagements with people suffering health impacts from toxic exposures.

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Podcast Credits

This has been Unintended Consequences, “Health Care Professionals on the Front Lines.”
  • Kelly Hendricks is the editor, director
  • Kim Thomas, advisor
  • Stephenie Hendricks, researcher, writer, producer, co-director, narrator.
Special Thanks to:
  • Dr. David Carpenter
  • Dr. Joel Moskowitz
  • Dr. Mark Mitchell
  • Dr. Phil Ladrigan
  • Dr. Barbara Sattler
  • Dr. Paul Saoke
  • Dr. Tracey Woodruff
  • Raluca Radu
Archival footage was used in this podcast, and we’d like to thank:
  • International Tribunal on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
  • Publicresource.org
  • The Christiansen Global Team with the Sun Valley Institute
  • The Southern Environmental Law Center “Broken Ground” podcast
  • The US Centers for Disease Control
  • United Nations Public Dispatch
Funded in part by the

Peter Wall Institute Catalyst Collaboration Fund

This has been a doctoral research project for the University of British Columbia Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies Program, the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, Sustainability Theme. Dr. Greg Garrard, Principal Investigator. Stephenie Hendricks, Project Lead.


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Asthma
Difficulty breathing, linked to manmade pollution in the air, commonly occurring in contaminated communities.

Biomonitoring
The process of measuring for chemicals in the body. This can be done by testing urine, blood, or hair.

Bisphenol A (BPA)
A synthetic sex hormone used in plastics and can linings that slinked to obesity, other forms of endocrine system disruption, and increases aggression in cancer.

Critical Windows of Development
This is the period of human development between conception and birth, when human beings are the most vulnerable to chemical exposure. See the Websites section for a database on environmental health impacts identified by peer reviewed studies curated by Theo Colborn and Carol Kwiatkowski.

Environmental Justice
The concept that all people deserve clean air, clean water, clean earth, and a healthy environment (Robert Bullard)

Grasshopper Effect
Persistent chemicals travel north toward the Arctic on wind and water. They land in places along the way, and when they do, they leave their "footprint," art capacity for exposure.

Low Dose Effects
The phenomena that low dose exposures can trigger health impacts, sometimes later in life.

Non-ionizing radiation
Radiofrequency waves from wireless devices, linked to weakening the blood brain barrier, enabling toxic chemicals to enter the brain more easily. Also linked to neurological, reproductive, and eugenic impacts. Carcinogenic.

PCBs
Polychlorinated biphenyls. Persistent chemicals linked to the immune system, reproductive system, nervous system and endocrine system impacts. Banned in the 1970's, yet still ubiquitous.

POPs Chemicals
Persistent Organic Pollutants that last a long time and travel north on wind and rain, leaving a "footprint" as they pass through (Paul Saoke).

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