Erica Walker of the Brown University School of Public Health received a federal grant to assess the effects of wood pellet plants in Mississippi on the health of residents in surrounding communities.
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Erica Walker
RGSS Assistant Professor
Biography
Walker has extensive experience with environmental exposure assessments, environmental exposure modeling, community surveying, and community engagement. She runs Community Noise Lab, whose primary aim is to explore the relationship between community noise and health, holistically. This is accomplished by working directly with communities to support their specified noise issue using: real-time monitoring and exposure modeling; our smartphone app, NoiseScore; community noise surveying via the National Environmental Quality Survey; laboratory-based experiments, and community engagement activities.
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A team led by Professor Erica Walker has received federal funding to conduct the first air-quality and community noise assessment of Mississippi communities impacted by the production of wood pellets.
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Erica Walker explores the hidden health impacts of wood pellet production in her home state of Mississippi
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MPH student Rosemelly Jimenez Medal's father has worked as a short-haul trucker for over 25 years, and she noticed that he was struggling to hear conversations at dinner. So Jimenez Medal teamed up with her father and noise researcher Erica Walker, RGSS Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Brown University, to conduct hearing screenings on short-term truckers in California.
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Behind the Lectern: Erica Walker
As founder and leader of the Community Noise Lab, Professor Erica Walker develops practical tools to help people advocate for healthier neighborhoods, and explores how social disparities and environmental exposures harm communities.
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Brown researchers study how unhealthy noise levels are impacting Cranston's schools and neighborhoods
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