The Heartland Health Research Alliance’s inaugural year was 2021, and our team has been working nonstop to grow our efforts in support of public and environmental health. Our research publications have attracted global media attention. Our science continues to procure…
In the mid-1980s when I was the Executive Director of the Board on Agriculture in the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), I had the privilege of working with some of the nation’s top weed scientists who had already become concerned…
Scientific uncertainty and controversy go hand-in-hand in our nation’s efforts to prevent adverse public health and environmental impacts from the pesticides applied by farmers, ranchers, foresters, landscapers, and groundskeepers. Significant progress has been made in the sciences supporting pesticide risk…
By: Dr. David M. Haas and Melissa Perry, ScD Over 18% of the babies born in Puerto Rico in 2011 were preterm, increasing life-long risks for multiple adverse developmental, reproductive, and chronic disease outcomes. In that same year, an NIH-funded…
HHRA research partners at King's College in London and the Ramazzini Institute have published a new study that suggests that regulatory risk assessments may be missing the mark on pesticide health impacts. The study uses the latest multi-omics analytical methods…
There seemed to be too many sick babies in the hospital. That’s what Dr. Paul Winchester observed when he started working as the director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Franciscan Health in Indianapolis in 2001. Winchester had…
HHRA is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Centre de toxicologie du Québec analytical laboratory, or CTQ. This world-renowned lab will process biological samples collected through HHRA's medical research on the public health implications of pesticide exposure. For…
HHRA chatted with journalist Carey Gillam, author of the new book The Monsanto Papers: Deadly Secrets, Corporate Corruption, and One Man’s Search for Justice; Island Press, Release Date: March 2, 2021 HHRA: Your first book, titled Whitewash, was described by…
By: Robin Mesnage, PhD Our gut is home to trillions of bacteria which are critical to good health. Because the once-in-a-century herbicide glyphosate can kill bacteria in a petri dish, the notion that glyphosate acts as an antibiotic in the…
By: Michelle Perro, MD During the past several decades, I have observed rapid escalation in rates of chronic disease in my patients, as well as a host of neurocognitive and neurobehavioral disorders among the children I care for. My search…