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Your Environment. Your Health.

Person Details: Philip J. Landrigan

Superfund Research Program

Philip J. Landrigan

Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine
1 Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1057
New York, New York 10029
Phone: 212-241-4804
Fax: 212-996-0407
Email: phil.landrigan@mssm.edu

Projects

Publications

2021

  • Sly PD, Trottier BA, Bulka C, Cormier SA, Fobil J, Fry RC, Kim K, Kleeberger SR, Kumar P, Landrigan PJ, Lodrop Carlsen KC, Pascale A, Polack FP, Ruchirawat K, Zar H, Suk WA. 2021. The interplay between environmental exposures and COVID-19 risks in the health of children. Environ Health 20(1):34. doi:10.1186/s12940-021-00716-z PMID:33771185 PMCID:PMC7996114

2020

  • Landrigan PJ, Stegeman JJ, Fleming LE, Allemand D, Anderson DM, Backer L, Brucker-Davis F, Chevalier N, Corra L, Czerucka D, Bottein MD, Demeneix B, Depledge MH, Deheyn DD, Dorman CJ, Fenichel P, Fisher S, Gaill F, Galgani F, Gaze WH, Giuliano L, Grandjean P, Hahn ME, Hamdoun A, Hess P, Judson B, Laborde A, McGlade J, Mu J, Mustapha A, Neira M, Noble RT, Pedrotti ML, Reddy C, Rocklov J, Scharler UM, Shanmugam H, Taghian G, van de Water JA, Vezzulli L, Weihe P, Zeka A, Raps H, Rampal P. 2020. Human health and ocean pollution. Ann Glob Health 86:64. doi:10.5334/aogh.2831 PMID:33354517 PMCID:PMC7731724

2019

  • Shaffer RM, Sellers SP, Baker MG, de Buen Kalman R, Frostad J, Suter MK, Anenberg SC, Balbus J, Basu N, Bellinger DC, Birnbaum LS, Brauer M, Cohen A, Ebi KL, Fuller R, Grandjean P, Hess JJ, Kogevinas M, Kumar P, Landrigan PJ, Lanphear BP, London SJ, Rooney AA, Stanaway JD, Trasande L, Walker K, Hu H. 2019. Improving and expanding estimates of the global burden of disease due to environmental health risk factors. Environ Health Perspect 127:doi:10.1289/EHP5496 PMID:31626566 PMCID:PMC6867191

2018

  • Heacock M, Trottier BA, Adhikary S, Asante KA, Basu N, Brune-Drisse MN, Caravanos J, Carpenter DO, Cazabon D, Chakraborty P, Chen A, Diaz-Barriga F, Ericson B, Fobil J, Haryanto B, Huo X, Joshi TK, Landrigan PJ, Lopez A, Magalini F, Navasumrit P, Pascale A, Sambandam S, Aslia Kamil US, Sly L, Sly PD, Suk A, Suraweera I, Tamin R, Vicario E, Suk WA. 2018. Prevention-intervention strategies to reduce exposure to e-waste. Rev Environ Health 33(2):219-228. doi:10.1515/reveh-2018-0014 PMID:29750656

2016

  • Portier CJ, Armstrong BK, Baguley B, Baur X, Belyaev I, Belle R, Belpoggi F, Biggeri A, Bosland MC, Bruzzi P, Budnik L, Bugge M, Burns K, Calaf GM, Carpenter DO, Carpenter H, Lopez-Carillo L, Clapp R, Cocco P, Consonni D, Comba P, Craft ES, Dalvie M, Davis D, Demers PA, De Roos AJ, DeWitt JC, Forastiere F, Freedman JH, Fritschi L, Gaus C, Gohlke J, Goldberg M, Greiser E, Hansen J, Hardell L, Hauptmann M, Huang W, Huff J, James MO, Jameson C, Kortenkamp A, Kopp-Schneider A, Kromhout H, Larramendy M, Landrigan PJ, Lash LH, Leszczynski D, Lynch CF, Magnani C, Mandrioli D, Martin FL, Merler E, Michelozzi P, Miligi L, Miller A, Mirabelli D, Mirer F, Naidoo S, Perry MJ, Petronio M, Pirastu R, Portier R, Ramos KS, Robertson LW, Rodriguez T, Roosli M, Ross M, Roy D, Rusyn I, Saldiva P, Sass J, Savolainen K, Scheepers P, Sergi C, Silbergeld EK, Smith MT, Stewart BW, Sutton P, Tateo F, Terracini B, Thielmann H, Thomas DB, Vainio H, Vena J, Vineis P, Weiderpass E, Weisenburger DD, Woodruff TJ, Yorifuji T, Yu I, Zambon P, Zeeb H, Zhou SF. 2016. Differences in the carcinogenic evaluation of glyphosate between the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). J Epidemiol Community Health 70(8):741-745. doi:10.1136/jech-2015-207005 PMID:26941213 PMCID:PMC4975799
  • Suk WA, Ahanchian H, Asante KA, Carpenter DO, Diaz-Barriga F, Ha E, Huo X, King M, Ruchirawat K, da Silva ER, Sly L, Sly PD, Stein R, van den Berg M, Zar H, Landrigan PJ. 2016. Environmental pollution: an under-recognized threat to children's health, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Environ Health Perspect 124(3):A41-A45. doi:10.1289/ehp.1510517 PMID:26930243 PMCID:PMC4786991

2015

  • Heindel JJ, Balbus J, Birnbaum LS, Brune-Drisse MN, Grandjean P, Gray K, Landrigan PJ, Sly PD, Suk WA, Cory-Slechta DA, Thompson CL, Hanson M. 2015. Developmental origins of health and disease: integrating environmental influences. Endocrinology 156(10):3416-3421. doi:10.1210/EN.2015-1394 PMID:26241070 PMCID:PMC4588819
  • Laborde A, Tomasina F, Bianchi F, Brune-Drisse MN, Buka I, Comba P, Corra L, Cori L, Duffert C, Harari R, Iavarone I, McDiarmid MA, Gray K, Sly PD, Soares A, Suk WA, Landrigan PJ. 2015. Children's health in Latin America: the influence of environmental exposures. Environ Health Perspect 123(3):201-209. doi:10.1289/ehp.1408292 PMID:25499717 PMCID:PMC4348745
  • Landrigan PJ, Suk WA. 2015. Jenny Pronczuk de Garbino: a global champion for children's health. Environ Health Perspect 123(3):A52-A53. doi:10.1289/ehp.1408293 PMID:25730408 PMCID:PMC4348746
  • Landrigan PJ, Wright RO, Cordero JF, Eaton DL, Goldstein BD, Hennig B, Maier RM, Ozonoff DM, Smith MT, Tukey RH. 2015. The NIEHS Superfund Research Program: 25 Years of Translational Research for Public Health. Environ Health Perspect 123(10):909-918. doi:10.1289/ehp.1409247 PMID:25978799 PMCID:PMC4590764

2014

  • Sly PD, Neira M, Collman GW, Carpenter DO, Landrigan PJ, van den Berg M, Diaz-Barriga F, Ruchirawat K, Laborde A, Pascale A, Heacock M, Dalmau MT, Suk WA. 2014. Networking to advance progress in children's environmental health. Lancet Glob Health 2(3):e129-e130. doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(14)70004-X PMID:25102838

2013

  • Levin ED, Landrigan PJ, Etzel R. 2013. Developmental Toxicology and Children's Environmental Health. In: The Oxford Textbook of Environmental Pediatrics: Environmental Influences on Health, Development and Disease. Oxford, New York, NY. pp.83-88.

2008

  • Landrigan PJ, Forman J, Galvez M, Newman B, Engel SM, Chemtob C. 2008. Impact of September 11 World Trade Center disaster on children and pregnant women. Mt Sinai J Med 75(2):129-134. doi:10.1002/msj.20032 PMID:18500713

2006

  • Gobeille AK, Morland K, Bopp RF, Godbold JH, Landrigan PJ. 2006. Body burdens of mercury in lower Hudson River area anglers. Environ Res 101(2):205-212. PMID:16226244
  • Grandjean P, Landrigan PJ. 2006. Developmental neurotoxicity of industrial chemicals. Lancet 368(9553):2167-2178. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69665-7 PMID:17174709
  • Trasande L, Schechter CB, Haynes KA, Landrigan PJ. 2006. Applying cost analyses to drive policy that protects children: mercury as a case study. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1076:911-923. doi:10.1196/annals.1371.034 PMID:17119266
  • Trasande L, Schechter CB, Haynes KA, Landrigan PJ. 2006. Mental retardation and prenatal methylmercury toxicity. Am J Ind Med 49(3):153-158. PMID:16470549

2005

  • Landrigan PJ, Sonawane B, Butler RN, Trasande L, Callan R, Droller DB. 2005. Early environmental origins of neurodegenerative disease in later life. Environ Health Perspect 113(9):1230-1233. PMID:16140633
  • Landrigan PJ, Tamburlini G. 2005. Children's health and the environment: a transatlantic dialogue. Environ Health Perspect 113(10):A646-A647. PMID:16203219
  • Morland K, Landrigan PJ, Sjodin A, Gobeille AK, Jones RS, McGahee EE, Needham LL, Patterson DG. 2005. Body burdens of polybrominated diphenyl ethers among urban anglers. Environ Health Perspect 113(2):1689-1692. PMID:16330348
  • Trasande L, Landrigan PJ, Schechter CB. 2005. Public health and economic consequences of methyl mercury toxicity to the developing brain. Environ Health Perspect 113(5):590-596. PMID:15866768 PMCID:PMC1257552

2004

  • Fewtrell L, Pruss A, Landrigan PJ, Ayuso-Mateos JD. 2004. Estimating the global burden of disease of mild mental retardation and cardiovascular diseases from environmental lead exposure. Environ Res 94(2):120-133. PMID:14757375
  • Landrigan PJ, Kimmel CA, Correa A, Eskenazi B. 2004. Children's health and the environment: public health issues and challenges for risk assessment. Environ Health Perspect 112(2):257-265. PMID:14754581
  • Landrigan PJ, Lioy PJ, Thurston G, Berkowitz GS, Chen L, Chillrud SN, Gavett SH, Georgopoulos PG, Geyh AS, Levin SM, Perera F, Rappaport SM, Small C. 2004. Health and environmental consequences of the world trade center disaster. Environ Health Perspect 112(6):731-739. PMID:15121517

2003

  • Adamu M, Morland K, Golden AL, Godbold JH, Moshier EL, Wolff MS, Landrigan PJ. 2003. Body burden of pollutants from fish consumption. Am J Epidemiol 157(11):85Suppl.S.
  • Berkowitz GS, Wolff MS, Janevic TM, Holzman IR, Yehuda R, Landrigan PJ. 2003. The World Trade Center disaster and intrauterine growth restriction. JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association 290(5):595-596. PMID:12902358
  • Etzel RA, Crain EF, Gitterman BA, Oberg C, Scheidt P, Landrigan PJ. 2003. Pediatric environmental health competencies for specialists. Ambul Pediatr 3(1):60-63. PMID:12540257
  • Landrigan PJ, Garg A, Droller DB. 2003. Assessing the effects of endocrine disruptors in the National Children's Study. Environ Health Perspect 111(13):1678-1682. PMID:14527850
  • Suk WA, Ruchirawat K, Balakrishnan K, Berger M, Carpenter DO, Damstra T, de Garbino JP, Koh D, Landrigan PJ, Makalinao I, Sly PD, Xu Y, Zheng BS. 2003. Environmental threats to children's health in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific. Environ Health Perspect 111(10):1340-1347. PMID:12896856

2002

  • Claudio L, Garg A, Landrigan PJ. 2002. Addressing Environmental Health Issues. In: Terrorism and Public Health. Oxford University Press, pp.69-79.
  • Landrigan PJ, Garg A. 2002. Public health: what's next?. The Green Guide 90:4.
  • Landrigan PJ, Moline JM. 2002. Principles of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. In: Cecil Textbook of Medicine, 22nd edition. W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia, PA.
  • Landrigan PJ, Sonawane B, Mattison D, McCally M, Garg A. 2002. Chemical contaminants in breast milk and their impacts on children's health: an overview. Environ Health Perspect 110(6):A313-A315. PMID:12055061 PMCID:PMC1240884
  • Moline JM, Landrigan PJ. 2002. Lead. In: Textbook of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2nd edition.

2001

  • Forman J, Satlin L, Amler RW, Winston JA, Fleissner ML, Toal B, Landrigan PJ. 2001. Environmental Uranium Contamination of Well Water Associated with Beta-2-Microblobulinuria. In: Proceedings of the Global Forum for Children's Environmental Health. Washington, DC.
  • LaDou J, Landrigan PJ, Bailar JC, Foa V, Frank AA. 2001. A call for an international ban on asbestos. (Commentary). Canadian Medical Association Journal 164:489-490.
  • Landrigan PJ. 2001. Health consequences of the September 11 attacks. Environ Health Perspect 109:PMID:11713006
  • Landrigan PJ. 2001. Pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs): An analysis of the evidence that they impair children's neurobehavioral development. Mol Genet Metab 73(1):11-17. doi:10.1006/mgme.2001.3177 PMID:11350178
  • Landrigan PJ, Golden AL, Berkowitz GS, Wolff MS, Godbold JH. 2001. Body Burdens of Persistent Pollutants in Hudson River Anglers. In: Proceedings of the Global Forum for Children's Environmental Health. Washington, DC.
  • Landrigan PJ, Markowitz SB, Baker DB. 2001. Cancer Prevention in the Workplace. In: Cancer Prevention and Control (2nd Edition). Marcel Dekker, New York, NY.
  • Landrigan PJ, Ramazzini B. 2001. Perpetuating the lesson of the Master. The diagnosis and prevention of occupational and environmental illness. European Journal of Oncology 6:235-237.
  • Landrigan PJ, Wolff MS. 2001. Organochlorine chemicals and children's health (editorial). Pediatrics 140:10-13. PMID:11815757
  • Mehlman MA, Landrigan PJ, Soffritti M. 2001. In Memoriam Professor Cesare Maltoni (1930-2001). Int J Occup Environ Health 7:254.
  • Mehlman MA, Soffritti M, Landrigan PJ. 2001. In Memoriam: Professor Cesare Maltoni (1930-2001). Am J Ind Med 40:1-2.

2000

  • Carpenter DO, Chew FT, Damstra T, Lam LH, Landrigan PJ, Makalinao I, Peralta GL, Suk WA. 2000. Environmental threats to the health of children: the Asian perspective. Environ Health Perspect 108(10):989-992. PMID:11049821
  • Forman J, Moline JM, Cernichiari E, Sayegh S, Torres JC, Landrigan MM, Hudson J, Adel HN, Landrigan PJ. 2000. A cluster of pediatric metallic mercury exposure cases treated with meso-2,3-dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA). Environ Health Perspect 108(6):575-577. PMID:10856034 PMCID:PMC1638142
  • Forman J, Moline JM, Cernichiari E, Sayegh S, Torres JC, Landrigan MM, Hudson J, Adel HN, Landrigan PJ. 2000. Therapeutic efficacy of meso 2,3-dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) in pediatric overexposure to elemental mercury. Pediatric Research: Program Issue 47(4):189A.
  • Landrigan PJ. 2000. Developing brain and environment: identifying critical windows of exposure for children's health. Environ Health Perspect 108(3):
  • Landrigan PJ, Claudio L, McConnell R. 2000. Pesticides. In: Environmental Toxicants - Human Exposures and Their Health Effects. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, NY. pp.725-739.
  • Landrigan PJ, Weiss B. 2000. The developing brain and the environment: an introduction. Environ Health Perspect 108(3):373-375. PMID:10852830
  • Moline JM, Golden AL, Bar-Chama N, Smith E, Rauch ME, Chapin RE, Perreault SD, Schrader SM, Suk WA, Landrigan PJ. 2000. Exposure to hazardous substances and male reproductive health: a research framework. Environ Health Perspect 108(9):803-813. PMID:11017884

1999

  • Claudio L, Tulton L, Doucette J, Landrigan PJ. 1999. Socioeconomic factors and asthma hospitalization rates in New York City. J Asthma 36(4):343-350. PMID:10386498
  • Landrigan PJ. 1999. Assessment for children and other sensitive populations. In: Uncertainty in the Risk Assessment of Environmental and Occupational Hazards. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 895. New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY.
  • Landrigan PJ, Claudio L, Markowitz SB, Berkowitz GS, Brenner BL, Romero H, Wetmur JG, Matte TD, Gore AC, Godbold JH, Wolff MS. 1999. Pesticides and inner-city children: exposures, risks and prevention. Environ Health Perspect 107(3):431-437. PMID:10346991
  • Landrigan PJ, Etzel RA. 1999. Chemical pollutants. In: Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. WB Saunders Co., Philadelphia, PA. pp.2152-2154.
  • Landrigan PJ, Suk WA, Amler RW. 1999. Chemical wastes, children's health and the Superfund Basic Research Program. Environ Health Perspect 107(6):423-427. PMID:10339440

1998

  • Carroquino MJ, Galson SK, Licht J, Amler RW, Perera F, Claxton LD, Landrigan PJ. 1998. The U.S. EPA conference on preventable causes of cancer in children: a research agenda. Environ Health Perspect 106:867-873. PMID:9646050
  • Claudio L, Torres T, Sanjurjo E, Sherman LR, Landrigan PJ. 1998. Environmental health sciences education - a tool for achieving environmental equity and protecting children. Environ Health Perspect 106(Suppl.3):849-855. PMID:9646048
  • Ehrlich RR, Robins T, Jordaan E, Miller S, Mbuli S, Selby P, Wynchank S, Cantrell A, De Broe M, D'Haese P, Todd AC, Landrigan PJ. 1998. Association of lead with renal failure in a South African battery workforce. J Occup Environ Med 55:453-460.
  • Galson SK, Carroquino MJ, Landrigan PJ. 1998. Introduction to conference on preventable causes of cancer in children. Environ Health Perspect 106:865.
  • Landrigan PJ. 1998. Asbestos - still a carcinogen (editorial). N Engl J Med 338:1618-1619. PMID:9603801
  • Landrigan PJ. 1998. Exposure to dimethylmercury (letter-to-the-editor). N Engl J Med 339:1243-1244.
  • Landrigan PJ. 1998. Principles of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. In: Cecil Textbook of Medicine, 21st edition. W.B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia, PA.
  • Landrigan PJ, Carlson JE, Bearer CF, Cranmer J, Bullard RD, Etzel RA, Groopman JD, McLachlan JA, Perera F, Reigart JF, Robison L, Schell LM, Suk WA. 1998. Children's health and the environment: a new agenda for prevention research. Environ Health Perspect 106Suppl3:787-794. PMID:9646038 PMCID:PMC1533065

1997

  • Clements WH, Day KE, DeWitt T, Landis WG, Landrigan PJ, Morrisey D, Reiley M, Rosenbers DM, Suter G. 1997. Critical issues of ecological relevance in sediment risk assessment. In: Ecological Risk Assessment of Contaminated Sediments. SETAC Foundation for Environmental Education, SETAC Press, Pensacola, FL.

1995

  • Landrigan PJ, Carlson JE. 1995. Policy options for children and environmental health. In: The future of children. The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Los Altos, CA.
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