One Health Lessons - Outreach Programs - Life Sciences Learning Center - University of Rochester Medical Center
Today is One Health Day!
Humans, animals, and the environment are closely interconnected. Therefore, the health of one can affect the health of the others. ❤️🩹
Learn about #OneHealth with lessons created by our Life Sciences Learning Center.
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www.urmc.rochester.edu/life-science...
03.11.2025 14:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
**UPDATE**
Dr. Rand’s seminar scheduled for Thursday, October 30 has been canceled and will be postponed until January 2026.
29.10.2025 14:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join us on Thursday 10/30 for a seminar presented by #IHHE faculty member Dr. Matthew Rand.
“Environmental Mercury Toxicity: Lessons from history, hair, microbes and flies"
#URochesterResearch #Mercury
27.10.2025 18:12 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Congratulations to IHHE faculty member Dr. Scott McIntosh for receiving a Community Outreach and Education (COE) Innovator Award at the annual retreat of @wilmotcancer.bsky.social Community Cancer Action Council (CCAC). 🎉
20.10.2025 13:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join us on Thursday 10/23 for a seminar presented by Dr. Dean Jones from the Emory University School of Medicine @emorydeptofmed.bsky.social.
“The Human Exposome and Future Health".
19.10.2025 16:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join us on Thursday 10/16 for a seminar presented by Dr. Tess Eidem from @colorado.edu.
"Airborne Allergen Risks Across Environments: Cannabis Industry Hazards and Indoor Air Quality Challenges"
Also, see below for our EnLIGHT Seminar Series fall 2025 schedule.
10.10.2025 17:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Children's Environmental Health Day
Healthy environments for all kids!
Today is Children’s Environmental Health Day!
The goal of #CEHday is to ensure that all children have clean air, clean water, safe food, and healthy places to live and play.
cehday.org
09.10.2025 12:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Rosebell Onuma, a Toxicology grad student and former @urochester.bsky.social undergrad research assistant with Dr. Katrina Korfmacher, received the @urochestersmd.bsky.social Meliora Scholarship which is awarded to first-year PhD students who demonstrate exceptional promise for success. Congrats!🎉
06.10.2025 13:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Knicki Bergman, a grad student in Dr. Martha Susiarjo's lab received the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Predoctoral Fellowship for her work, “Perfluorooctanoic acid: a potential environmental modulator of susceptibility to gestational diabetes mellitus”. 🎉
#URochesterResearch
06.10.2025 00:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sun Safety - Engagement Projects - Engagement - Institute for Human Health and the Environment - University of Rochester - University of Rochester Medical Center
Our sun safety resource materials were featured by the NIEHS Partnerships for Environmental Health.
These materials include a fact sheet on sun safety myths and an infographic on how to choose an effective sunscreen. ☀️
www.urmc.rochester.edu/institute-fo...
#SunSafety #sunscreen
01.10.2025 20:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join us for a #cleanup as part of our clean sweep science events! Picking up #litter helps us reduce what ends up in the environment, but also helps us collect data!
29.09.2025 14:04 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Join us on Wednesday 11/9 for a special seminar presented by Dr. Kinari Webb, founder of Health In Harmony.
"Planetary Health in Action: How stethoscopes can also heal the lungs of the Earth"
Register for this hybrid seminar: bit.ly/3IEmPbM
#PlanetaryHealth #OneHealth
24.09.2025 17:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join us on Thursday 9/25 for a seminar presented by our very own Dr. Katrina Korfmacher! 📢
“The ROC HOME Study: Implications for participants, policies, and programs”
The ROC HOME study investigated contaminants in household dust.
www.urmc.rochester.edu/.../healthy-...
#URochesterResearch
18.09.2025 19:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
IHHE faculty member Rose Pasquarello Beauchamp co-directed the EcoVibes show at the Rochester Fringe Festival @rochesterfringe.bsky.social. EcoVibes explored the changing climate in our region through dance, music, visual art, and participatory creativity.
#SciComm
17.09.2025 13:45 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Watershed Movements
Learn about an IHHE-funded project, Watershed Movements, that uses storytelling and art to measure the correlation between river health and individuals’ sense of well-being. This project is co-led by IHHE faculty member Rose Pasquarello Beauchamp.
projects.echolab.art/watershedmov...
16.09.2025 18:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
Read about this IHHE-funded program for 80 science teachers in Mexico on plastic pollution and its impact on human health. This teacher professional development program was co-led by IHHE faculty member Dr. April Luehmann.
#microplastics #scienceteachers
13.09.2025 02:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
IHHE faculty member Dr. Juilee Thakar is a member of a team that won a @wilmotcancer.bsky.social Wilmot Warrior Weekend Team Science Award to study cancer-related cognitive impairment (“chemo brain"). 🎉
#URochesterResearch
sites.mc.rochester.edu/departments/...
10.09.2025 14:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Opinion | The Clue to Unlocking Parkinson’s May Be All Around Us
IHHE faculty members Dr. Ray Dorsey @urneuroscience.bsky.social and Dr. Deborah Cory-Slechta are mentioned in this NY Times opinion article on pesticides and Parkinson's disease.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
08.09.2025 13:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join us on Thursday 9/11 for a seminar by Dr. Kelly Baker from @ubuffalo.bsky.social.
“Epidemiological Transitions in Enteric Disease Control: Impact of Societal Development on Enteric Pathogen Transmission at the One Health Interface in the PATHOME”
www.urmc.rochester.edu/institute-fo...
04.09.2025 19:30 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Congratulations to post-doc Dr. Gagandeep Kaur and her mentor Dr. Irfan Rahman on receiving a K99 award from NIH! 🎉
This grant will support an early-career scientist and fund research on how environmental factors (smoking exposures) impact the regulation of lung cell aging.
#URochesterReseach
28.08.2025 19:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
IHHE faculty member Dr. Katrina Korfmacher and Dr. Christy Tyler @ritcpe.bsky.social, co-directors of the Lake Ontario MicroPlastics Center (LOMP), are featured in this NIH podcast:
"Human Health Impacts of Microplastics in the Great Lakes"
niehs.nih.gov/research/pro...
#SciComm #microplastics
19.08.2025 13:03 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Natural Experiments: An Efficient Tool for Population Respiratory Health Evaluation | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | Articles in Press
New research paper co-authored by IHHE faculty members Drs. Daniel Croft and David Rich. 📢
"Natural Experiments: An Efficient Tool for Population Respiratory Health Evaluation"
atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/...
#URochesterResearch
@urochestersmd.bsky.social
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14.08.2025 14:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Warner's been bustling! Students and scholars recently gathered for the @urochester.bsky.social Experiential Science Learning in Higher Education Poster Fair, showcasing students' efforts to advance science through hands-on research & community engagement. 🔬 ♻️ 🌎 #environmental @ur-ihhe.bsky.social
12.08.2025 17:02 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Hello! We are the One Health Section from the American Public Health Association. Our members work at the intersections of animal health, human medicine, environmental science, & the climate to create multidisciplinary solutions to global health issues.
Rochester Institute of Technology research lab conducting research on all plastics and debris in and around the Great Lakes with a focus on Lake Ontario.
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The Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences at the University of Rochester is where unexpected ideas connect to bring unprecedented breakthroughs to life.
Editor-in-Chief, One Earth - Cell Press’ flagship sustainability journal. A tired editor in a tired world. A better future is waiting.
science | health | social change 🧬 | she/hers | Assistant Professor @MiamiRosenstiel | Co-founder @STEMNoire | UMiami & Morgan State alum | Views are my own.
NatGeo Explorer, Oceanographer, Climate Scientist; Env. Remote Sensing; Energy & Sustainability; husband, father #FirstGen, Views my own; Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=qMBuSe4AAAAJ
Professor and Chair of Dept of Environmental Health at BU School of Public Health. Focus on indoor and outdoor air, climate change, housing, and environmental justice. Occasional parental musings and the odd dad joke. Once called “Very human, relatable”.
For 100 years, where breakthrough science meets compassionate care to transform human health for the better.
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Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, and environmental medicine.
Education resources from public media. Cradle to career.
Our mission is to help all people in Greater Rochester find nature where they live, work, and play through our nature-based learning and community-building programs.
@urneuroscience.bsky.social research lab of @zvr-bsj.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social, dedicated to understanding #discriminationlearning and #psychopathology using #VR, #MRI, and #ML. Happy to connect with the research community on Bluesky!
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