Jonsara Ruth, founding member of Healthy Materials Lab, and Alison Mears, Director, recently joined the advisory group of the Community Outreach and Engagement Core of The Mount Sinai Transdisciplinary Center on Early Environmental Exposures at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai hospital in NY.
They both recently attended the EPA-HHS-HUD Asthma conference. Asthma is the single most prevalent cause of childhood disability in the U.S. The cost to society of asthma in the U.S. is over $50 billion per year in healthcare expenses, missed school and work days, and early death.
Childhood asthma has sky-rocketed in inner cities. Asthma disproportionately strikes the poor, who are at least 50 percent more likely to have the disease than those not living in poverty. While the reasons are not completely clear, research by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention demonstrates that a combination of poverty-related issues trigger attacks. To read more about the impact of Asthma, click here.
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