Silent Spring Institute is a mission-driven scientific research organization dedicated to uncovering the environmental causes of breast cancer. It conducts independent research to empower a revolution in environmental health to prevent cancers by reducing exposure to harmful chemicals.

Silent Spring Institute

Silent Spring Institute is a mission-driven scientific research organization dedicated to uncovering the environmental causes of breast cancer. The organization conducts independent research to empower a revolution in environmental health to prevent cancers by reducing exposure to harmful chemicals.

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The only scientific research organization specifically dedicated to breast cancer prevention.

Company Overview

Silent Spring is a nonprofit research organization working to identify and break the links between chemicals in our everyday environments and women’s health, especially breast cancer.

Our groundbreaking studies have opened new doors to the health risks associated with toxics where we live and work – areas that have largely been ignored in cancer research.

Environmental Research Scientist | Silent Spring Institute | Berkeley PhD, MIT BSc

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MA Breast Cancer Coalition Executive Director & Silent Spring Institute Outreach Coordinator

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A new study by Silent Spring Institute and University of California, Berkeley shows California’s Proposition 65 has helped lower people’s exposures to a number of chemicals that cause cancer, birth defects, and reproductive harm. The study is the first to evaluate the effectiveness of Prop 65 at protecting people from harmful substances in their products and the environment and shows the benefits of the law extend nationwide. University of California, Berkeley - School of Law UC Berkeley School of Public Health Read more: https://lnkd.in/egBEYfEu

Join NASEM Earth & Life Sciences Wednesday, November 20, for the first of three public engagement sessions exploring the state-of-the-science of cumulative impact assessment and its application at the community, state, and national levels. Learn more and register: https://lnkd.in/eV4TjA9H Over the next few months, the project’s three events will include insights from local community members as they share their lived experiences on key cross-cutting themes pertinent to cumulative impacts assessment. #CumulativeImpactAssessment #VirtualEvents #EnvironmentalRiskManagement #EnvironmentalRisk

Our latest analysis identifies 12 toxic chemicals that put female firefighters at increased risk for breast cancer. The chemicals include benzene, PAHs, acetaldehyde, styrene, dioxins, flame retardants, PFAS, and PCBs among others. Firefighters can be exposed to an array of toxic chemicals when putting out fires—building fires, wildfires, and vehicle fires. They also encounter harmful substances in their protective gear, fire station air and dust, and diesel exhaust from firefighter trucks. With more women joining the profession, the findings could inform policies and practices to reduce workplace exposures and inform cancer presumptive laws to include breast cancer. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/e4jG-zpC

Join us for our upcoming virtual Science Café speaker series and get an inside look at the critical research that is creating a safer world. Hear directly from Silent Spring Institute scientists and ask them your own questions during the live Q & A. This season, we are spotlighting three important areas of research that you won’t want to miss! 🔎 Early-onset Breast Cancer: Opportunities for Prevention 📊 Massachusetts PFAS and Your Health Study 🏠 Creating Healthier Homes Learn more and register for our December 11th Science Café here: https://shorturl.at/f0D1w

On Nov. 20, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 's committee on the State-of-the-Science and the Future of Cumulative Impact Assessment is having a one-day workshop in La Place, Louisiana to facilitate discussion with local community members on key cross-cutting themes pertinent to cumulative impacts assessment. Organized with input from the committee’s community and tribal liaison group, the first of three workshops aims to amplify community voices by inviting members to share their lived experiences. Roundtable discussions will center around stressors and impacts being experienced, environmental justice considerations, and a future vision to improve health by integrating community input into environmental decision-making and risk management. The meeting will be livestreamed via the event webpage. Silent Spring's Dr. Julia Brody serves on the committee charged with convening the workshops and developing a consensus report to advise EPA on the practice of cumulative impact assessment. Learn more and register: https://lnkd.in/eJACrpRk

Our study with University of California, Berkeley , featured here in the LA Times, is the first to show how a toxics law in California aimed a reducing people's exposures to chemicals that cause cancer and birth defects has benefits nationwide. UC Berkeley School of Public Health University of California, Berkeley - School of Law https://lnkd.in/e6-Bajnz

A recent study by Silent Spring Executive Director Dr. MaryBeth Terry and colleagues at Columbia University provides a roadmap for studying the effects of chronic exposure to chemicals in our everyday lives on breast cancer risk. The authors argue for greater investment in new studies that focus on younger and more susceptible individuals and are carried out in diverse communities that are underrepresented in existing cancer cohorts. The study appears in the American Journal of Epidemiology https://lnkd.in/eMz9EXkk

Our latest study with University of California, Berkeley was featured in Fast Company . The study is the first to evaluate the effectiveness of California's Prop 65 at reducing people's exposures to toxic chemicals and shows the benefits of the law extend nationwide. University of California, Berkeley - School of Law UC Berkeley School of Public Health https://lnkd.in/gqanA_Dd

Silent Spring scientists made a dynamic impact at the 2024 International Society for Exposure Science (ISES) Annual Meeting in Montreal. More than half a dozen staff gave presentations on their latest research on topics ranging from occupational exposures among nurses to chemicals of concern in personal care products. This year’s theme was “Exposures that Impact Health in Vulnerable Populations.” The convening took place from October 20-24. Read more: https://lnkd.in/ed_RMnpb

Did you attend our Gala celebration last month? Check out our photo gallery to see if we captured you on camera at the event. We’d love to see your photos too—share them in the comments! View our photo gallery here: https://shorturl.at/g8YKF

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