Science Communication
Science Communication is vital for our research! Below are my communications: both for a general audience and for an international scientific audience.
Popular Press Coverage:
- How the Federal Government Can Address Voters’ Well-Founded Concerns about Chemicals in Consumer Products Scholars Strategy Network, Basic Facts Brief, May 2023
- Firefighter study shows inexpensive silicone wristbands can help track chemical exposures, Safety+Health, July 11, 2022
- How Can Silicone Wristbands Help Firefighters? EOS, July 8, 2022
- Duke study uses silicone wristbands to track firefighters’ exposure to chemicals, wfdd, July 1, 2022
- Duke launches research into what cancer-causing chemicals Durham firefighters are exposed to, WRAL, June 2, 2022
- Firefighters are exposed to higher levels of 'forever-chemical' on the job, study shows, WHQR, May 31, 2022
- Study: FFs Exposure to Cancer-Causing Chemicals Can Be Cheaply Tracked, Firehouse.com, May 26, 2022
- Study uses wristbands to track firefighters' exposures to carcinogens, Firechief.com, May 26, 2022
- Wristband tracks firefighter’s chemical exposure, Futurity.org, May 25, 2022
- How a $1 wristband could help track firefighters’ exposure to cancer-causing chemicals, CBS17, May 25, 2022
Invited Presentations:
- Jessica L. Levasseur, Environmental Epidemiology Case Study: “Randomized control” trials. ENV537 (Environmental Health and Epidemiology) Lecture, February 2025
- Jessica L. Levasseur, The Environment and Human Health, ENV102 (Introduction to Environmental Sciences and Policy) Lecture, April 2024
- Jessica L. Levasseur, How Epidemiology and Environmental Health Inform Risk Assessment, ENV537 (Environmental Health and Epidemiology) Lecture, April 2024
- Jessica L. Levasseur, K. Hoffman, S. Zhang, E. Cooper, H. Stapleton. Monitoring Human Exposure to Compounds Commonly Associated with Personal Care Products: Comparing Silicone Wristbands to Spot Urine Samples as Predictors of Internal Dose. 2023 ISES Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 27-31, 2023.
- Jessica L. Levasseur, Morgan D. Farnworth, Alexandra Maxim, Corey M. Jacinto, Justin W. Morgan, Ciara Horne, Mudia Uzzi. Housing Decommodification: Moving from Profits to People. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation HPRS Summer Institute, Baltimore, MD, July 21, 2023.
- Jessica L. Levasseur, The Environment and Human Health, ENV102 (Introduction to Environmental Sciences and Policy) Lecture, November 2022
- Jessica L. Levasseur and Heather Stapleton, Monitoring Human Exposure To Parabens And Triclosan: Comparing Silicone Wristbands With Spot Urine Samples As Predictors Of Internal Dose. DIOXIN Annual Conference, October 2022
- Jessica L. Levasseur, Examining Firefighter Exposures to 130+ Semi-volatile Organic Chemicals Using Silicone Wristbands, Seminar presentation for The National Centre for the Working Environment in Copenhagen, Denmark, June 2022
- Jessica L. Levasseur, How Epidemiology and Environmental Health Inform Risk Assessment, ENV537 (Environmental Health and Epidemiology) Lecture, April 2022
- Jessica L. Levasseur, The Environment and Human Health, ENV102 (Introduction to Environmental Sciences and Policy) Lecture, September 2021
- Levasseur, Jessica L.†, Leah V. Estrada, Alexandra Maxim, Gabriel Benavidez, Keshia M. Pollack Porter. How Place and Structural Racism Affect Health: A Narrative Review of the Health Services and Systems, Environmental Exposures, and Transportation Literature. 2021 IAPHS Annual Meeting, Virtual/Baltimore, MD, October 19 – 21, 2021.
- Jessica L. Levasseur, The Environment and Human Health, ENV102 (Introduction to Environmental Sciences and Policy) Lecture, April 2019
- Varghese, A., T. Hong, J. Levasseur*, H. Hubbard, K. Dionisio, N. Brandon, AND P. Price. Product Use Scheduler: A Scheduling Module used in EPA’s Human Exposure Model. 2017 ISES Annual Meeting, Durham, NC, October 15 - 19, 2017.
- G. Glen, H. Hubbard, J. Levasseur*, P. Price, K. Dionisio, D. A. Vallero, P. P. Egeghy. Residential and Population Generator (RPGen): Creating a detailed description of housing and occupants for predicting and describing chemical exposures. 2017 ISES Annual Meeting, Durham, NC, October 15 - 19, 2017.
- G. Glen, R. Avanasi, J. Levasseur†, H. Hubbard, P. Price, K. Isaacs. Modeling use phase chemical releases, fate, and disposal for modeling longitudinal human exposures to consumer products. 2017 ISES Annual Meeting, Durham, NC, October 15 - 19, 2017.
- University of Washington Sustainability Summit Panel “Solving Grand Challenges: Identifying barriers to solving the largest issues regarding sustainability in various disciplines”; School of Public Health student representative. 2014.
*presentations given as primary presenter when not first author; †poster presentation