“Minority communities shoulder a disproportionate share of the country’s environmental problems, yet there are major gaps in our understanding of how environmental exposures and health interact in these smaller subgroups,” says Symma Finn, a medical anthropologist and program officer for the Population Health Branch of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. “Public health interventions that benefit the majority Caucasian population may not be applicable or may need to be adapted for use in communities that are most at risk of disease.”
