Fish consumption as a human right
On Wednesday, June 18, Linn Gould, JHA’s Executive Director will be on a Seattle Human Rights Commission panel to discuss the connection between fish consumption rates in low income and/or people of color populations, health inequities, and human rights. The Seattle Human Rights Commission recently passed a resolution calling on Washington State Department of Ecology […]
Read MoreJHA presents Cumulative Health Impacts Analysis Research at EPA Toxic Release Inventory conference
Linn Gould recently presented the Duwamish Valley Cumulative Health Impact Analysis: Seattle, Washington at an EPA conference in Arlington, Virginia. The EPA and Dillard University’s Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ) co-sponsored the 2014 National Training Conference on the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) and Environmental Conditions in Communities from May 7-9, 2014. The Training […]
Read MoreTurning the documentation of environmental health inequities into Environmental Justice curriculum
The year 2013 was a productive one for JHA. In addition to teaching health equity in a variety of settings, JHA has been documenting health inequities in order to influence decision makers. We are proud of two publications that we wrote in collaboration with the University of Washington School of Public Health and the Duwamish River […]
Read MoreWar as a determinant of health and inequity
War is a health equity issue: It creates substantial unjust health disparities that are both unnecessary and preventable. JHA’s Executive Director, Linn Gould and colleagues James Gould and Steve Gilbert just returned from the American Public Health Association Conference in Boston where we presented on Women Peacemakers: An Online Educational Tool. We discussed the history […]
Read MoreFirst Superfund Health Impact Assessment in Nation
JHA collaborated with the University of Washington Department of Enviromental and Occupational Health Sciences and the Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition to conduct the first Health Impact Assessment (HIA) in the nation on a Superfund Site. The Health Impact Assessment: Proposed Cleanup Plan for the Lower Duwamish Waterway Superfund Site focuses on health changes that may result […]
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