Publications
- State Messaging on Toxic Chemical Exposure: Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances and the Individualization of Risk on State Websites in the United States by Helena Zindel, Martha Powers, Phil Brown, and Alissa Cordner
- The True Cost of PFAS and Benefits of Acting Now by Alissa Cordner et al.
- Improved Medical Screening in PFAS-Impacted Communities to Identify Early Disease by Alissa Cordner, Phil Brown, and Isabella Raponi
- COVID-19 as Eco-Pandemic Injustice: Opportunities for Collective and Antiracist Approaches to Environmental Health by Martha Powers, Phil Brown, Grace Poudrier, Jennifer Liss Ohayon, Alissa Cordner, Cole Alder, and Marina Goreau Atlas
- Producing Ignorance Through Regulatory Structure: The Case of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) by Lauren Richter, Alissa Cordner, and Phil Brown
- What Lessons Should We Learn from the PFAS Crisis? by Phil Brown, Lauren Richter, and Alissa Cordner
- PFAS Project Lab – Publications and Ongoing Research as of June 2019 by Phil Brown, Alissa Cordner, Lauren Richter, Jennifer Ohayon, Cole Alder, Kylin Brown, Elicia Cousins, Olivia Chagnon, Grace Poudrier, Jessica Rodriguez, and the PFAS Project Team
- Environmental chemicals and public sociology: engaged scholarship on highly fluorinated compounds by Alissa Cordner, Lauren Richter, and Phil Brown
- Risky Business? Manufacturer and Retailer Action to Remove Per- and Polyfluorinated Chemicals From Consumer Products by Elicia Mayuri Cousins, Lauren Richter, Alissa Cordner, Phil Brown, and Sokona Diallo
- Guideline levels for PFOA and PFOS in drinking water: the role of scientific uncertainty, risk assessment decisions, and social factors by Alissa Cordner, Vanessa Y. De La Rosa, Laurel A. Schaider, Ruthann A. Rudel, Lauren Richter, and Phil Brown (Winner: 2020 Best JESEE Paper from the International Society of Exposure Science)
- Participant Reactions to Medical Screening: A Survey of Satisfaction With the C8 (PFOA) Health Project by Clare Malone, Gülnaz Çığ, Phil Brown, and Alan Ducatman
- Non-stick science: Sixty years of research and (in)action on fluorinated compounds by Lauren Richter, Alissa Cordner, and Phil Brown
- Fluorinated Compounds in U.S. Fast Food Packaging by Laurel Schaider, et al.
- Can Chemical Class Approaches Replace Chemical-by-Chemical Strategies? Lessons from Recent U.S. FDA Regulatory Action on Per- And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances by Alissa Cordner, Lauren Richter, and Phil Brown
Conference Presentations
How Scientific Opportunity Structures Shapes Social Movement Organizing Around Contamination by Per-and Polyfluoralkyl Substances
2020 – American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Jennifer Ohayon, Andrea Amico, Lauren Richter, and Phil Brown
Second National PFAS Conference – Social and Scientific Discovery
June 10-12, 2019 – Northeastern University
View videos and presentations from the 2019 PFAS conference here
Highly Fluorinated Compounds – Social and Scientific Discovery
June 14-15, 2017 – Northeastern University
View presentations from the 2017 PFAS Conference here
- Environmental Justice and the Future of Environmental Health Research
April 28, 2017 – Rutgers University
Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute, Phil Brown
Sticky Science: Sixty Years of Research and (In)Action on Fluorinated Compounds - Minnesota Department of Health
January 24, 2017
Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute, Lauren Richter, Alissa Cordner, and Phil Brown
The Social and Scientific Discovery of PFASs - CHE Conference Call
Toxics Action Center, Shaina Kasper
Bennington Vermont’s PFOA Story - Alaska Collaborative on Health and the Environment Teleconference
April 6, 2016
Whitman College, Dr. Alissa Cordner
Toxic Safety: Flame Retardants, Chemical Controversies, and Environmental Health
Local Environmental Action Conference
March 13, 2016
- Testing for Pease, Andrea Amico, Alayna Davis, Michelle Dalton
The PFC Contamination at Pease: A Community Perspective - The Silent Spring Institute, Laurel Schaider
Fluorinated chemicals: How are we exposed and what are the health concerns?
PFAS Project in the News
- The Provincetown Independent: PFAS Testing of Wells in Truro and Wellfleet Set to Begin featuring Phil Brown
- The Guardian: Are We Being Kept Safe From ‘Forever Chemicals’ Injected Into Fracking Sites featuring Phil Brown
- WBUR: Northeastern University Expert Recommends State Task Force Test Blood for Chemical Contaminant PFAS featuring Phil Brown
- Environmental Health News: Improved Medical Screening in PFAS-Impacted Communities to Identify Early Disease featuring Phil Brown, Alissa Cordner, and Isabella Raponi
- Charleston Gazette-Mail: WV Congressional Delegation Not on Same Page on Legislation Targeting PFAS featuring Phil Brown
- Inforum: ‘Forever Chemicals’ Contaminate Sites Across North Dakota, Including in Fargo featuring Alissa Cordner
- Record Eagle: FOIA Shows Travel Voucher Idea for PFAS-Contaminated Well Owners in East Bay Township featuring Alissa Cordner
- Consumer Reports: Solvay Impedes Research Into Unknown PFAS by Threatening Testing Lab With Legal Action featuring Alissa Cordner
- Northeastern University: Chemicals found in everyday objects could cause more severe cases of COVID-19 featuring Phil Brown
- Union of Concerned Citizens blog: What Lessons Should We Learn from the PFAS Crisis? by Phil Brown, Lauren Richter, and Alissa Cordner
- Consumer Reports: What’s Really in Your Bottled Water? featuring Phil Brown
- Consumer Reports: Why Dangerous ‘Forever Chemicals’ Are Still Allowed in America’s Drinking Water featuring Alissa Cordner
- Environmental Health News: Op-ed: PFAS chemicals—the other immune system threat by Phil Brown and colleagues
- WBUR Radio: What Are PFAS? And Are They Hazardous To Our Health? featuring Phil Brown
- Michigan Radio: Scientists Dig Into Hard Questions About The Fluorinated Pollutants Known As PFAS featuring Alissa Cordner