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The benefits of water fluoridation have become the subject of much national debate. YSPH professors Nicole Deziel and Vasilis Vasiliou provide their expert perspectives.

Yale School of Public Health Associate Professor Dr. Nicole Deziel, an expert on environmental contaminants, discusses the health concerns surrounding fracking in this report.

With swaths of South Sudan submerged, a whistleblower warns water sources are being polluted by oil. YSPH's Dr. Nicole Deziel comments on the situation

Dr. Andrew DeWan, PhD, MPH, has been appointed as the Yale School of Public Health’s new Director of Graduate Studies effective Oct. 1, Dean Megan L. Ranney announced Friday.

Studies have shown that environmental pollutants are disproportionately distributed in areas where lower socioeconomic and vulnerable communities reside.

Approximately 18 million people in the U.S. live within a mile of active oil and gas wells that are known to release air pollutants and odors.

Fracking, short for hydraulic fracturing, is an oil and gas extraction technique that involves injecting rocks with a mix of water, sand, and chemicals. It has become a hot button issue in the presidential election campaign in Pennsylvania. YSPH Associate Professor Nicole Deziel discusses the environmental and public health concerns associated with fracking.

Unitization, the pooling of parcels of land into a single unit for fracking purposes, has been legal in Ohio since 1965, however, the last decade has seen unitization orders surge to meet fracking demands. As fracking in Ohio surges, a Yale School of Public Health report has identified human health concerns associated with fracking.

When it is hotter outside, pesticides tend to evaporate faster, explains Nicole Deziel, an environmental health scientist at the Yale School of Public Health. This, in turn, impacts how much of the pesticide actually reaches the crop. Any that doesn’t usually sticks around in the air—and can travel miles offsite. Pesticide drift means that the toxic chemicals spread further than ever intended, affecting farmworkers and adjacent communities.