Environmental justice research is increasingly focused on community-engaged, participatory
investigations that test interventions to improve health. Such research is primed for the use …

Background: Environmental health risks are disproportionately colocated with communities
in poverty and communities of color. In some cases, participatory research projects have …

Background Low-income and minority communities often face disproportionately high
pollutant exposures. The lead crisis in Flint, Michigan, has sparked concern about broader …

This article reconsiders the epistemic and geographic boundaries that have long separated
scholarship on urban water poverty and politics in the Global North and South. We stage an …

With this article, we develop the Drinking Water Disparities Framework to explain
environmental injustice in the context of drinking water in the United States. The framework …

Background Epistemological biases in environmental epidemiology prevent the full
understanding of how racism's societal impacts directly influence health outcomes. With the …

Citizen science programs have been growing in popularity in recent years and can provide
various benefits to participants and their communities. We sought to determine whether …

Objectives. To examine drinking water quality in majority Black periurban neighborhoods in
Wake County, North Carolina, that are excluded from nearby municipal water service and to …

Water and sanitation (wastewater) infrastructure in the United States is aging and
deteriorating, with massive underinvestment over the past several decades. For many years …

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention define community engagement as “the
process of working collaboratively with and through groups of people” in order to improve …