PFAS Project Lab
Since the summer of 2015, a group of faculty, post-doctoral scholars, graduate students, and undergraduates affiliated with the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute at Northeastern have worked with co-directors Dr. Phil Brown and Dr. Alissa Cordner. Our PFAS Project Lab is funded by grants from the National Science Foundation and The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and also receives support from Whitman College. View the current research team here.
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Mission Statement
The PFAS Project Lab studies social, scientific, and political factors related to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). We produce rigorous, accessible research about the PFAS contamination crisis through collaborations with impacted communities, leading interdisciplinary researchers, and nonprofits. We share this PFAS research with impacted communities and a broad range of other stakeholders.
CURRENT PROJECTS
- PFAS-REACH, a study of PFAS effects on children’s immune response in collaboration with Silent Spring, Testing for Pease, Mass. Breast Cancer Coalition, Community Action Works
- PFAS Exchange website with Silent Spring Institute
- Tracking known and presumptive PFAS Contamination sites, including the PFAS Contamination Site Tracker, the Presumptive PFAS Contamination Dataset, and the PFAS Contamination Site and Community Resources Map, with Silent Spring Institute
- Health professionals information resource documents and paper
- PFAS & Environmental Justice
- Spatial Inequalities of PFAS
- PFAS & Tribal Lands
- Cartographic Data Justice
- Studying PFAS advocacy and activism
- Nuclear weapons production and PFAS
- PFAS Countermovements
- PFAS in sewage sludge and “biosolids”