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Overview

Phil Brown is affiliated with Northeastern University in the United States and conducts research primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Social Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Sociology and Political Science, Environmental Chemistry, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Atmospheric Science.

Their research topics cover a range of issues related to environmental health and chemical safety, notably focusing on Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) research. Additional topics include Environmental Justice and Health Disparities, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging, Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact, Climate Change Communication and Perception, and the Effects and Risks of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals.

Phil Brown has published extensively in several prominent venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Environmental Health Perspectives
  • Environmental Health
  • Environmental Research
  • Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences

Notable recent publications include:

  • "The True Cost of PFAS and the Benefits of Acting Now," 2021, Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Presumptive Contamination: A New Approach to PFAS Contamination Based on Likely Sources," 2022, Environmental Science & Technology Letters
  • "Producing Ignorance Through Regulatory Structure: The Case of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)," 2020, Sociological Perspectives
  • "Addressing systemic problems with exposure assessments to protect the public's health," 2023, Environmental Health
  • "A science-based agenda for health-protective chemical assessments and decisions: overview and consensus statement," 2023, Environmental Health

Phil Brown frequently collaborates with a group of co-authors, including:

  • Alissa Cordner
  • Derrick Salvatore
  • Rachel Morello-Frosch
  • Martha Powers
  • Julia Green Brody

Best Publications

  • Confronting environmental racism : voices from the grassroots

    Phil Brown;Robert Bullard

  • Naming and framing: the social construction of diagnosis and illness.

    Phil Brown

  • Embodied health movements: new approaches to social movements in health.

    Phil Brown;Stephen Zavestoski;Sabrina McCormick;Brian Mayer

  • Popular epidemiology and toxic waste contamination : lay and professional ways of knowing

    Phil Brown

  • Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement

    Phil Brown

  • Social movements in health: an introduction.

    Phil Brown;Stephen Zavestoski

  • Race, Class, and Environmental Health: A Review and Systematization of the Literature

    P. Brown

  • No Safe Place: Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action

    Phil Brown;Edwin J. Mikkelsen

  • Correction: Guideline levels for PFOA and PFOS in drinking water: the role of scientific uncertainty, risk assessment decisions, and social factors

    Alissa Cordner;Vanessa Y. De La Rosa;Vanessa Y. De La Rosa;Laurel A. Schaider;Ruthann A. Rudel

  • Popular Epidemiology Revisited

    Phil Brown

  • Contested Illnesses: Citizens, Science, and Health Social Movements

    Phil Brown;Rachel Morello-Frosch;Stephen Zavestoski

  • The health politics of asthma: environmental justice and collective illness experience in the United States.

    Phil Brown;Brian Mayer;Stephen Zavestoski;Theo Luebke

  • Patient activism and the struggle for diagnosis: Gulf War illnesses and other medically unexplained physical symptoms in the US.

    Stephen Zavestoski;Phil Brown;Sabrina McCormick;Brian Mayer

  • “MAKING A BIG STINK” Women's Work, Women's Relationships, and Toxic Waste Activism

    Phil Brown;Faith I. T. Ferguson

  • Pollution Comes Home and Gets Personal: Women's Experience of Household Chemical Exposure.

    Rebecca Gasior Altman;Rachel Morello-Frosch;Julia Green Brody;Ruthann A. Rudel

  • Toxic ignorance and right-to-know in biomonitoring results communication: a survey of scientists and study participants.

    Rachel Morello-Frosch;Julia Green Brody;Phil Brown;Rebecca Gasior Altman

  • Improving disclosure and consent: "is it safe?": new ethics for reporting personal exposures to environmental chemicals.

    Julia Green Brody;Rachel Morello-Frosch;Phil Brown;Ruthann A. Rudel

  • The Personal Is Scientific, the Scientific Is Political: The Public Paradigm of the Environmental Breast Cancer Movement

    Sabrina McCormick;Phil Brown;Stephen Zavestoski

  • The transfer of care : psychiatric deinstitutionalization and its aftermath

    Phil Brown

  • Perspectives in Medical Sociology

    Phil Brown

  • Illness and the environment : a reader in contested medicine

    Steve Kroll-Smith;Phil Brown;Valerie J. Gunter

  • Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice

    Phil Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Rachel Morello-Frosch
Rachel Morello-Frosch University of California, Berkeley
Ruthann A. Rudel
Ruthann A. Rudel Silent Spring Institute
Akram N. Alshawabkeh
Akram N. Alshawabkeh Northeastern University
Peter Conrad
Peter Conrad Brandeis University
Carol S. Aneshensel
Carol S. Aneshensel University of California, Los Angeles
Linda H. Aiken
Linda H. Aiken University of Pennsylvania
Antonia M. Calafat
Antonia M. Calafat Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Thomas F. Webster
Thomas F. Webster Boston University
Ginger L. Milne
Ginger L. Milne Vanderbilt University
Robert H. Hurt
Robert H. Hurt Brown University

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