Research

Currently funded projects

What’s in the air? Engaging Native American youth in the Northern Plains to reduce air pollution

A community-academic partnership with Missouri Breaks Industries Research (an American Indian-owned research center serving Indigenous communities and others in North and South Dakota) to characterize sources of air pollution and identify community-driven solutions through an emissions reduction plan.

Funding: Health Effects Institute

Mapping environmental court settlements: The role of reparations in mitigating environmental harms.

Despite civil cases and settlements, largely from Clean Air and Clean Water Acts violations, resulting in over $8 billion in settlements since 1998, the effectiveness of these reparations on local communities has not been adequately assessed. This research aims to fill a gap by evaluating the impact of environmental reparations on these communities, using data from the U.S. EPA enforcement and compliance office and the American Community Survey.

Funding: JPB Environmental Health Fellowship

Right To Breathe: Supporting Community Health Advocacy through Exposure Science

A collaboration between Rise St. James and Dr. Ami Zota.

Funding: Beyond Petrochemicals

HEATE

A collaboration with Dr. Robbie Parks.

Funding: NIEHS Center for Environmental Health and Justice in Northern Manhattanhttps://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/research/centers/niehs-center-environmental-health-justice-northern-manhattan