2013: This Year in Environmental Health

This year has gone so fast and here we are, publishing our last blog post for 2013.

Maybe you’re reading this post because you have been following the blog regularly. If so, we hope you have enjoyed learning more about the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) and our work in environmental health.

On the other hand, if you’re reading “Your Health, Your Environment” for the first time, we welcome you and hope you will find something (or many things) that will interest you and bring you back.

Our goal is to share with you the challenges and successes of working in environmental health and keep you coming back for more. Blog posts for 2013 have encompassed a wide range of topics. Here are some of our favorite posts—in case you missed them. Read about

• ATSDR’s interactive website game: “Don’t Mess with Mercury”



• Our Tracking Program’s partners: Florida, Massachusetts, Missouri, and New York City
• NCEH’s environmental health laboratory’s biomonitoring program, tobacco lab and newborn screening programs
• Our Climate Ready Cities and States Initiative helping local areas prepare for extreme heat
• Healthy Community Design in North Omaha, NE
• Groundbreaking investigations in Kenya, and Nigeria
• Environmental justice programs in state, city, and tribal governments
• Our scientists:Drs. Moiz Mumtaz, Carla Cuthbert, and Behrooz Behbod.
• Education in toxicology
• Toxic substances like lead in homes and mercury in fish
• Asthma control

Of course, you could just start with the most recent posts and read all of them—including those from 2011 and 2012.

We look forward to 2014 and sharing more blog posts about environmental health, the work of NCEH and ATSDR, and the scientists who do it. So stay tuned!