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Staff Profile Researcher Studies Impact of Community Noise on Health Erica Walker, postdoctoral associate of environmental health, examines how noise impacts mental and physical health and shapes our cities and regulatory policies. March 10, 2021 Twitter Facebook As a noise researcher and community activist, Erica Walker, postdoctoral associate of environmental health, examines how noise impacts our mental and physical health and how it shape...

Twitter Facebook Birgit Claus Henn first developed a curiosity about environmental exposures and children’s health well before she understood the subject as a core area of public health. As early as second grade, she aspired to be a pediatrician. Then, two middle-school science fair projects—one on the effects of pollutants on brine shrimp (sea-monkeys) and another that examined levels of UV protection in lenses—sealed the deal. Now, as an associate professor of environmental health...