Professor Erin Bell interviewed on PFAS Study

ALBANY, N.Y (July 29, 2021) - Environmental Health Sciences Professor Erin Bell was recently interviewed by WAMC about her current study on per and poly alkyl substances (PFAS). 

You can listen to Bell's segment on WAMC here. 

PFAS are man-made chemicals that can be found in food, household products, the workplace, and drinking water. Growing evidence shows that PFAS exposure can lead to adverse health effects. However, when individuals or communities learn that they have been exposed, there isn’t a step-by-step, one-fits-all approach to deal with exposure.

Bell is the co-Principal Investigator (with the New York State Department of Health) of a cohort study to recruit and enroll participants into a prospective cohort of adults and children to examine the long-term health effects associated with consumption of drinking water contaminated with PFAS. She previously led the investigations of adverse reproductive outcomes by levels of air pollutants in the New York State Department of Health’s Environmental Health Tracking Program and previously served as a co-PI of the New York Center for the National Birth Defects Prevention Study/BD-STEPS multi-center studies funded by the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC).