Protecting our gifts and securing our future: Eliminating poverty among First Nations children

Protecting Our Children from Climate Change

This month, as we celebrate National Children's Health Month with Environmental Health Perspectives' (EHP) annual issue focused on children's health around the world, one particular nexus of concern has risen to the forefront: the current and potential impacts of climate change on children's health. Although climate change has become a constant topic of scientific inquiry and political discussi...

Our adolescents--our future.

Climate change and health in Maldives: Protecting our common future.

The term “sustainable development” was first defined in 1987, in the seminal report, Our common future, subsequently more commonly known as The Brundtland report.1 The report was the synthesis of 3 years’ work by the World Commission on Environment and Development, chaired by Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, who would go on to be Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) from 1998 to 200...

Protecting our science.

In response to a recent court decision, the Annals of Occupational Hygiene is reviewing our procedures to ensure transparency in authorship and direct and indirect conflicts of interest. These improvements are intended to help protect the integrity of the science presented in the journal.

Editorial Protecting Our Science

On 6 June 2013, a court in New York City handed down a decision that calls into question the validity of research that was sponsored by Georgia Pacific (GP) Corporation (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation) and published in eight peer-reviewed articles, including two papers published in the Annals of Occupational Hygiene (Sheehan et al., 2011; Berman et al., 2012). While the court did not d...