Newswise — In celebration of this month’s 40th anniversary of Earth Day, the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) today posted a new podcast featuring preeminent zoologist Theo Colborn describing her work studying endocrine disruptors.
EHP launched its Researcher’s Perspective podcast program in 2009. Other recent interviews include Irva Hertz-Picciotto discussing her research on blood mercury levels in children with autism and Robert Kavlock describing the U.S. EPA’s ToxCast™ chemical screening project.
Colborn’s research on the endocrine-disrupting effects of chemicals in the Great Lakes ecosystem broke new ground in the field of environmental toxicology. In 1996, she co-authored the book Our Stolen Future, which laid forth the concept of endocrine disruptors and ignited a major movement in environmental health research. She now heads The Endocrine Disruption Exchange (TEDX) in Paonia, Colorado, and is a professor emeritus at the University of Florida in Gainesville. The full interview with Colborn is available at http://ehponline.org/static/podcasts.action.
“EHP values the work of scientists like Theo Colborn and wants to recognize and celebrate their contributions. These scientists give us the opportunity to change our world and our lives for the better,” said Hugh Tilson, editor-in-chief of EHP.
Published since 1972 by the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, EHP’s mission is to serve as a forum for the discussion of the interrelationships between the environment and human health.
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