Conference Abstracts

Silent Spring Institute researchers have offered their findings at a number of local, regional, national, and international conferences:

  • Dodson RE, KR Attfield, RA Rudel. 2009. Green buildings and indoor air quality: Lessons learned from household exposure studies. Healthy Buildings 2009 Conference and Exhibition. Syracuse, New York. Abstract, Poster

  • Brody JG, RG Altman, R Morello-Frosch, P Brown, C Adams, RA Rudel. 2008. Reporting Individual-level Exposure Measurements to Participants in Intervention Studies for Emerging Contaminants. Joint Annual Conference on Exposure and Health in a Global Environment. Pasadena, California. Abstract

  • Dodson RE, LJ Standley, JG Brody, RA Rudel. 2008. Development of an Evidence-based Intervention Study to Reduce Exposures to Contaminants in Consumer Products. Joint Annual Conference on Exposure and Health in a Global Environment. Pasadena, California. Abstract

  • Dodson RE, RA Rudel, E Newton, JG Brody. 2008. Urinary Pesticide Concentrations and Their Relationship to Air and Dust Concentrations and Household Predictors. Joint Annual Conference on Exposure and Health in a Global Environment. Pasadena, California. Abstract

  • Rudel RA, RE Dodson, E Newton, AR Zota, JG Brody. 2008. Correlations between urinary phthalate metabolites and phthalates, estrogenic compounds 4-Butyl phenol, and some pesticides in home indoor air and house dust. Joint Annual Conference on Exposure and Health in a Global Environment. Pasadena, California. Abstract

  • Morello-Frosch, RA, AR Zota, RA Rudel, C Perez, J Tovar, P Brown, R Dodson, JG Brody. 2008. Community-based participatory exposure assessment in an environmental justice community: preliminary results and communication. Joint Annual Conference on Exposure and Health in a Global Environment. Pasadena, California. Abstract

  • Zota, AR, RA Rudel, RA Morello-Frosch, JG Brody. 2008. Elevated house dust and serum concentrations of PBDEs in California: Unintended consequences of furniture flammability standards? Joint Annual Conference on Exposure and Health in a Global Environment. Pasadena, California. Abstract

  • Zota, AR, RA Rudel, RA Morello-Frosch, DE Camann, JG Brody. 2007. Regional variation in levels of indoor polybrominated diphenyl ethers may reflect differences in fire safety regulations for consumer products. 17th Annual Conference of the International Society of Exposure Analysis. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Abstract

  • Standley, LJ, RA Rudel, CH Swartz, KR Attfield, JG Brody. 2006. Contamination of surface ponds on Cape Cod, MA, by EDCs and pharmaceuticals from septic-contaminated groundwater. North American Meeting of the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, November, Montreal, Canada. Abstract

  • Morello-Frosch, R, JG Brody, M Frye, P Brown, RG Altman, RA Rudel, C Perez. 2006. Right-to-know, the right-to-act, and the right not-to-know: Ethical and scientific dilemmas of reporting data in biomonitoring and environmental exposure studies. 134th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, November, Boston, Massachusetts. Abstract

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    Attfield, K, T Kennedy, A Just, S Gray, R Rudel, JG Brody. 2006. Developing computer mapping tools for public access to environmental health information. 134th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, November, Boston, Massachusetts. Abstract

  • Brody, JG. 2006. Cancer and environmental health: A collaborative model of engagement. 134th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, November, Boston, Massachusetts. Abstract

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    Brody, JG, RA Rudel, R Morello-Frosch, P Brown, A Napolis, RG Altman, C Osimo, C Perez, L Seryak, A Just. 2006 Environmental justice and breast cancer advocacy: Household exposure to endocrine disrupting compounds. 134th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, November, Boston, Massachusetts. Abstract

  • McKelvey, W, RA Rudel, V Cortessis, JG Brody. 2003. Is there an association between cryptorchidism or hypospadias in a son and a mother’s risk of breast cancer? Presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Society for Epidemiologic Research; June 11–14, Atlanta, Georgia. American Journal of Epidemiology 157(suppl 11): S39. (not available online)

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    Kennedy, T, JG Brody, JN Gardner. 2003. Modeling historical environmental exposures using GIS: Implications for disease surveillance. Presented at the ESRI Health GIS Conference, May 4–7, 2003, Arlington, Virginia. Abstract

  • Kennedy, T, JG Brody. 2003. Spatial data accuracy and historical exposure assessment in the Cape Cod Breast Cancer and Environment Study: Implications for wide-area disease surveillance and mapping. Presented at the EUROHEIS/SAHSU Conference, March 30–31, Östersund, Sweden. (not available online)

  • Brody, JG. 2002. The promise of the future: The Eighth Annual Survivors’ Seminar and Luncheon Event. Presented at the Breast Cancer Alliance of Greater Cincinnati. October 12, Cincinnati, Ohio. (not available online)

  • Brody, JG, R Polk, AM Menting, CH Swartz, RA Rudel. 2002. Beyond “I don’t know”: responsible and effective strategies to communicate results of exposure assessment for endocrine disruptors to study participants and communities in a breast cancer study. Annual Conference of International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE)/ International Society of Exposure Analysis (ISEA). Epidemiology 13(4):S253. (not available online)

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    Swartz, CH, RA Rudel, JR Kachajian, JG Brody. 2002. Indicators of wastewater and land use impacts on public drinking water: Historical reconstruction of exposure on Cape Cod, MA. Annual Conference of International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE)/ International Society of Exposure Analysis (ISEA). Epidemiology 13(4):S191. (not available online)

  • Rudel, RA, CH Swartz, JG Brody, DM Camann, A Yau, M Zuniga, JD Spangler. 2002. Residential indoor air and dust measures for pesticides, alkylphenols, phthalates, and other endocrine disruptors. Annual Conference of International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE)/International Society of Exposure Analysis (ISEA). Epidemiology 13(4):S198. (not available online)