Contributor: Genevieve K. Howe

Genevieve K. Howe is an environmental health advocate promoting the identification and eradication of involuntary environmental exposures linked to adverse health effects. She has a Master of Public Health degree from the Boston University School of Public Health and a Master of Journalism degree from Northeastern University, also in Boston. For the past 10 years, Ms. Howe has been involved in research, writing, and advocacy on topics concerning toxins and the environment and the political and economic forces that foster environmental contamination. She co-authored the 2005 report, "Environmental and Occupational Causes of Cancer: A Review of Recent Scientific Literature." She was the developmental editor of the 2006 edition of "State of the Evidence: What is the Connection between the Environment and Breast Cancer?" Currently, Ms. Howe is Environmental Health Campaign Director at the Ecology Center, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.