Kim Garrett

PFAS Project Lab members Kimberly Garrett and Alissa Cordner are quoted in this Allegheny Front article! Read the full article here: www.alleghenyfront.org/pfas-forever... @alissa-a.bsky.social @kimgarrett.bsky.social

Are you a @cunysph.bsky.social student who loves to watch How It's Made? Would you like to visit industrial workplaces around NYC and NJ to learn how to identify and manage risks? I invite you to join EOHS 646 this spring!

Kindergarten vaccination rates at many Pittsburgh-area schools are below herd immunity One in three kindergarteners in Allegheny County were in a classroom with vaccination rates below the herd immunity threshold during the 2023-2024 school year.

One in three kindergarteners in Allegheny County were in a classroom with vaccination rates below the herd immunity threshold during the 2023-2024 school year.

Are you a @cunysph.bsky.social student who loves to watch How It's Made? Would you like to visit industrial workplaces around NYC and NJ to learn how to identify and manage risks? I invite you to join EOHS 646 this spring!

NIEHS’s Only Journal – Environmental Health Perspectives – Is Suddenly Removed – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative The NIEHS Environmental Health Perspectives home page on November 5, 2025  (left), and December 1, 2025 (right), after it was taken down. […]

NIEHS's only journal, Environmental Health Perspectives, has been removed from the web. EHP is one of just a few federally supported journals. While still findable on PubMed Central, the future of the over 18,000 items published by EHP is unclear. envirodatagov.org/niehss-only-...

Department of Education Proposal Excludes Public Health Degrees from “Professional Degree” Definition Discover the new results and implications of Dept of Ed consensus regarding professional degree programs and public health education.

It really seems like this administration is trying to eliminate the field of public health. MPHs and DrPHs will no longer be considered "professional degrees" by the DOE and, therefore, will face limits to accessing federal student loans.

aspph.org/department-o...

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 303 tenure-track positions and 39 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemchat ⚗️🧪

Birds near US military bases have higher levels of PFAS, study finds. One expert told Newsweek that while the findings are "not surprising," the scope and scale of these chemicals is "concerning."

🐦#CUNYSPH Assistant Prof. Kim Garrett was quoted in Newsweek - News, Analysis, Politics, Business, Technology on new research finding PFAS in birds near U.S. military bases: Detection of PFAS in birds “can serve as indicators for other species, including humans.”
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Carbon Monoxide From Generators Poisons Thousands of People a Year. The U.S. Has Failed to Force Safety Changes. Portable generators are among the deadliest consumer products. Two decades after the government identified the danger, and as climate change leads to more power outages, people are left vulnerable by ...

If you lose power this winter and use a portable generator to power your home: Be careful.

Preventable carbon monoxide deaths follow every major power outage.

(Published 2021 with @texastribune.org @nbcnews.com)

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Annual reminder that people are not putting drugs in your children's Halloween candy, but we do need to keep regulating our food system so that you don't have to worry about gypsum OR arsenic adulterants 🙃 www.bbc.com/news/uk-engl...

State officials find PFAS in deer and wild turkey, issue hunting advisory The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and the state CDC have issued an alert warning that wildlife in parts of Knox, Thorndike and Unity are unsafe to eat because of PFAS contamination...

State officials are starting to detect PFAS in wildlife—including deer + turkeys—in some parts of Maine.

For many Mainers, hunting is a way of life. So this is a big deal. Not just as an indicator of how bad the PFAS crisis is getting, but for the people who rely on hunting to keep food costs down.

This new podcast episode focuses on PFAS and the ways this chemical class links researchers and communities across disciplines. @pfasproject.bsky.social @alissa-a.bsky.social

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Birds near US military bases have higher levels of PFAS, study finds. One expert told Newsweek that while the findings are "not surprising," the scope and scale of these chemicals is "concerning."

Something that you probably know about me is that I love to talk about birds. Thanks for the quotes, @newsweek.com! www.newsweek.com/birds-us-mil...

Toxic “Forever Chemicals” Contamination May Be More Widespread Than Previously Thought Sites contaminated by toxic "forever chemicals" are much more widespread than previously thought in the United States, researchers have found.

💧A new Technology Networks piece on the spread of #foreverchemicals quotes #CUNYSPH Assistant Prof @kimgarrett.bsky.social: “We know that resources for testing bodies and regulatory bodies and municipal utilities are very limited, so we hope that our tools can serve as a guide”
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On #IndigenousPeoplesDay I recommend checking out these two groups focused on addressing PFAS' impacts on tribal communities:
- The Tribal PFAS Working Group: www7.nau.edu/itep/main/nt...
-Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT): www.akaction.org

a Cooper & Lady appreciation post

:) I love my new job!

Map shows thousands more areas where groundwater could be contaminated Researchers predict there are nearly 80,000 groundwater sites likely to have levels of carcinogenic chemicals higher than the EPA's limit.

Check out this article about our study of known and presumptive PFAS sites, (@kimgarrett.bsky.social) and our Contamination site tracker update: www.newsweek.com/more-drinkin...

Map shows thousands more areas where groundwater could be contaminated Researchers predict there are nearly 80,000 groundwater sites likely to have levels of carcinogenic chemicals higher than the EPA's limit.

Thanks to @newsweek.com for covering our research!

"Our findings show the need to turn off the tap of PFAS emissions from its sources," Kimberly Garrett, a professor at @cunysph.bsky.social and lead author of the study, told Newsweek.
www.newsweek.com/more-drinkin...

cc @northeasternu.bsky.social

In 1907, Allegheny County saw 526 worker deaths in mills, mines and other workplaces. In 2023, 169 Pennsylvanians died on the job. The numbers are smaller now—but the hazards haven’t gone away. buff.ly/31XCbLc

Antidotal Action of Some Gold(I) Complexes toward Phosphine Toxicity Phosphine (PH3) poisoning continues to be a serious problem worldwide, for which there is no antidote currently available. An invertebrate model for examining potential toxicants and their putative an...

But can R*K jr. visually identify G. mellonella larvae experiencing "mitochondrial challenges"? Hi, welcome to my dissertation where we exposed 2,000 caterpillars to phosphine and observed their recovery with and without candidate antidotes. pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

The CDC Implosion Continues as Staff Plan Walkout At least five senior CDC employees, including its director, have resigned or been fired since Wednesday.

Good. Remove Kennedy.

gizmodo.com/the-cdc-impl...

co-authors include @alissa-a.bsky.social @ml314.bsky.social @emilyhaberlack.bsky.social (pls tag others if they’re on here but I don’t know it)

The Landscape of PFAS Contamination in the United States: Sources and Spatial Patterns The scope and scale of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination remains unknown. Using two nationwide data sets, we provide a profile of PFAS contamination in the United States and compare site categories with groundwater PFAS detections to identify site characteristics and sources of concern. We use data from the PFAS Project Lab’s Known PFAS Contamination Tracker (N = 2219) and presumptive PFAS contamination data set (N = 79,891), developed to characterize the distribution of known and likely PFAS sources. In this data set, all categories of known PFAS contamination sites are associated with average groundwater PFAS concentrations above health-based regulatory levels (4 ppt); 94% of detections exceed this limit. Aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF) use was associated with the highest average PFAS detections in this data set, and metal plating facilities account for the greatest proportion of industrial contamination sites that likely utilize PFAS (53%), though we also identified testing gaps of non-AFFF contamination sources. We conducted spatial cluster analyses, identifying hotspots of PFAS sites at national and regional levels. These findings can support multiscale approaches to PFAS remediation, including testing, siting, permitting, and community outreach, though cautious interpretation is necessary because of data set limitations. This analysis demonstrates the utility of a presumptive contamination model.

Our paper was published today in ES&T! The @pfasproject.bsky.social analyzed our Known and Presumptive #PFAS contamination datasets to learn more about where PFAS have been identified, where they might be, and how source type can impact detections in environmental media. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

PFAS Project Lab Co-director Alissa Cordner @alissa-a.bsky.social and Postdoc Mike Lengefeld @ml314.bsky.social presented the Lab's research at the 2025 American Sociological Association's @asanews.bsky.social annual meeting in Chicago!

There’s one vice RFK Jr. isn’t talking about The health secretary, who wants Americans to make healthier choices, rarely mentions smoking.

RFK Jr. wants to Make America Healthy Again. But he's ignoring the country's leading cause of preventable deaths: smoking.

Few things are more humbling than removing your tire and stowing your bicycle on an Amtrak train in front of a carful of antsy passengers

Interested in learning how #PFAS impact Tribal communities? Join the Tribal PFAS Working Group for their open-house webinar this Thursday to learn about pollution impacts on traditional foods and wild game! Zoom: nau.zoom.us/j/8609712222...