Reporting Individual Exposure Results
Publications and Presentations
Korfmacher, K.S. and J.G. Brody. 2023. Moving Forward with Reporting Back Individual Environmental Health Research Results. Environmental Health Perspectives. 131(12). https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP12463
ArticleBoronow, K.E., B. Cohn, L. Havas, M. Plumb, J.G. Brody. 2023. The Effect of Individual or Study-Wide Report-Back on Knowledge, Concern, and Exposure-Reducing Behaviors Related to Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals. Environmental Health Perspectives. 131(9):097005. doi:10.1289/EHP12565.
ArticleOhayon, J.L., S. Rasanayagam, R.A. Rudel, S. Patton, H. Buren, T. Stefani, J. Trowbridge, C. Clarity, J.G. Brody, R. Morello-Frosch. 2023. Translating community-based participatory research into broadscale sociopolitical change: insights from a coalition of women firefighters, scientists, and environmental health advocates. Environmental Health. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12940-023-01005-7
ArticleOksas, C., J.G. Brody, P. Brown, K.E. Boronow, E. DeMicco, A. Charlesworth, M. Juarez, S. Geiger, S.L. Schantz, T.J. Woodruff, R. Morello-Frosch. 2022. Perspectives of peripartum people on opportunities for personal and collective action to reduce exposure to everyday chemicals: Focus groups to inform exposure report-back. Environmental Research. 212(Pt A):113173. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2022.113173.
ArticleBrody, J.G., P.M. Cirillo, K.E. Boronow, L. Havas, M. Plumb, H.P. Susmann, K.Z. Gajos, and B.A. Cohn. 2021. Outcomes from Returning Individual versus Only Study-Wide Biomonitoring Results in an Environmental Exposure Study Using the Digital Exposure Report-Back Interface (DERBI). Environmental Health Perspectives. 129(11):117005. doi: 10.1289/EHP9072
ArticlePerovich, L.J., P. Cai, A. Guo, K. Zimmerman, K. Paseman, D.E. Silva, J.G. Brody. 2021. Data Clothing and BigBarChart: Designing Physical Data Reports on Indoor Pollutants for Individuals and Communities. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 41(1): 87-98. doi: 10.1109/MCG.2020.3025322
ArticleBrody J.G., P. Brown, R.A. Morello-Frosch (2019). Returning Chemical Exposure Results to Individuals and Communities. In S. Finn & L. O'Fallon (eds), Environmental Health Literacy (pp. 135-163). Springer, Cham. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-94108-0_6 (first online September 13, 2018)
Book ChapterPerovich, L.J., J.L. Ohayon, E.M. Cousins, R. Morello-Frosch, P. Brown, G. Adamkiewicz, J.G. Brody. 2018. Reporting to parents on children’s exposures to asthma triggers in low-income and public housing, an interview-based case study of ethics, environmental literacy, individual action, and public health benefits. Environmental Health, 17(48). doi: 10.1186/s12940-018-0395-9.
ArticleCarrera, J.S., P. Brown, J.G. Brody, R. Morello-Frosch. 2018. Research altruism as motivation for participation in community-centered environmental health research. Social Science & Medicine. 196:175-181. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.11.028
AbstractBoronow, K.E., H.P. Susmann, K.Z. Gajos, R.A. Rudel, K.C. Arnold, P. Brown, R. Morello-Frosch, L. Havas, J.G. Brody. 2017. DERBI: A Digital Method to Help Researchers Offer “Right-to-Know” Personal Exposure Results. Environmental Health Perspectives, 125(2):A27-A33. doi:10.1289/EHP702.
ArticleOhayon, J.L., E. Cousins, P. Brown, R. Morello-Frosch, J.G. Brody. 2017. Researcher and institutional review board perspectives on the benefits and challenges of reporting back biomonitoring and environmental exposure results. Environmental Research, 153:140-149. doi:10.1016/j.envres.2016.12.003
ArticleJudge, J.M., P. Brown, J.G. Brody, and S. Ryan. 2016. The Exposure Experience: Ohio River Valley Residents Respond to Local Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) Contamination. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 57(3):333-350. doi:10.1177/0022146516661595.
ArticleRamirez-Andreotta, M., J.G. Brody, N. Lothrop, M. Loh, P.I. Beamer and P. Brown. 2016. Improving Environmental Health Literacy and Justice through Environmental Exposure Results Communication. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 13(7):690. doi:10.3390/ijerph13070690
ArticleGoho, S. 2016. The Legal Implications of Report-Back in Household Exposure Studies. Environmental Health Perspectives, 124(11):1662-1670. doi:10.1289/EHP187.
ArticleRamirez-Andreotta, M., J.G. Brody, N. Lothrop, M. Loh, P.I. Beamer, P. Brown. 2016. Reporting back environmental exposure data and free choice learning. Environmental Health, 15(2). doi:10.1186/s12940-015-0080-1
ArticleSaxton, D.I., P. Brown, S. Seguinot-Medina, L. Eckstein, D.O. Carpenter, P. K. Miller, V. Waghiyi. 2015. Environmental Justice and the Right to Research: IRB Opposition to Chemical Biomonitoring of Breast Milk. Environmental Health, 14(90). doi:10.1186/s12940-015-0076-x
ArticleGreen Housing Study Your Family's Results. 2015. Silent Spring Institute.
Sample Study ReportMorello-Frosch, R., J. Varshavsky, M. Liboiron, P. Brown, J.G. Brody. 2015. Communicating Results in Post-Belmont Era Biomonitoring Studies: Lessons from Genetics and Neuroimaging Research. Environmental Research, 136:363-372. doi:10.1016/j.envres.2014.10.001
ArticleBrody, J.G., S.C. Dunagan, R. Morello-Frosch, P. Brown, S. Patton, R.A. Rudel. 2014. Reporting individual results for biomonitoring and environmental exposures: lessons learned from environmental communication case studies. Environmental Health, 13(40). doi:10.1186/1476-069X-13-40
ArticleDunagan, S.C., J.G. Brody, R. Morello-Frosch, P. Brown, S. Goho, J. Tovar, S. Patton, R. Danford. 2013 When Pollution Is Personal: Handbook for Reporting Results In Biomonitoring and Personal Exposure Studies. Silent Spring Institute.
Study ReportQuigley, D. 2012. Applying Bioethical Principles to Place-Based Communities and Cultural Group Protections: The Case of Biomonitoring Results Communication. The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 40(2):348–358. doi:10.1111/j.1748-720X.2012.00668.x
ArticleBrown, P., J.G. Brody, R. Morello-Frosch, J. Tovar, A.R. Zota, R.A. Rudel. 2012. Measuring the Success of Community Science: The Northern California Household Exposure Study. Environmental Health Perspectives, 120(3):326–331. doi:10.1289/ehp.1103734
ArticleAdams, C., P. Brown, R. Morello-Frosch, J.G. Brody, R. Rudel, A. Zota, S. Dunagan, J. Tovar, S. Patton. 2011. Disentangling the Exposure Experience: The Roles of Community Context and Report-back of Environmental Exposure Data. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 52(2):180-196. doi:10.1177/0022146510395593
ArticleMorello-Frosch, R., P. Brown, J.G. Brody, R.G. Altman, R. Rudel, A. Zota, C. Perez. 2011. Experts, Ethics, and Environmental Justice: Communication and Contesting Results from Personal Exposure Science. Technoscience and Environmental Justice: Expert Cultures in a Grassroots Movement, eds. G. Ottinger and B. Cohen, 93-118. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Book PreviewBrown, P., R. Morello-Frosch, J.G. Brody, R.G. Altman, R. Rudel, L. Senier, C. Perez, R. Simpson. 2010. Institutional review board challenges related to community-based participatory research on human exposure to environmental toxins: A case study. Environmental Health, 9:39. doi:10.1186/1476-069X-9-39
ArticleBrody, J.G., R. Morello-Frosch, A. Zota, P. Brown, C. Perez, R.A. Rudel. 2009. Linking Exposure Assessment Science with Policy Objectives for Environmental Justice and Breast Cancer Advocacy: The Northern California Household Exposure Study. American Journal of Public Health, 99 Suppl 3, Suppl 3:S600-S609. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2008.149088
ArticleBrody, J.G., R. Morello-Frosch, P. Brown, R.A. Rudel. 2009. Letter to the editor: Reporting Individual Results for Environmental Chemicals in Breastmilk in a Context That Supports Breastfeeding. Breastfeeding Medicine, 4(2):121-121. doi:10.1089/bfm.2009.0006
LetterMorello-Frosch, R., J.G. Brody, P. Brown, R.G. Altman, R. Rudel, C. Perez. 2009. Toxic Ignorance and Right-to-Know in Biomonitoring Results Communication: A Survey of Scientists and Study Participants. Environmental Health, 8(6). doi:10.1186/1476-069X-8-6
ArticleAltman, R.G., R. Morello-Frosch, J.G. Brody, R. Rudel, P. Brown, M. Averick. 2008. Pollution Comes Home and Gets Personal: Women’s Experience of Household Chemical Exposure. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 49(4):417-435. doi:10.1177/002214650804900404
ArticleBrody, J.G., R. Morello-Frosch, P. Brown, R.A. Rudel, R.G. Altman, M. Frye, C.A. Osimo, C. Perez, L.M. Seryak. 2007. Improving disclosure and consent: “Is it safe?”: New ethics for reporting personal exposures to environmental chemicals. American Journal of Public Health, 97(9):1547-1554. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2006.094813
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