[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, GLOBAL: "Michigan toxicologist wins international award for Iraq birth defect research"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Michigan toxicologist wins international award for Iraq birth defect research.

By Brian Bienkowski
Environmental Health News
March 11, 2015

Mozhgan Savabieasfahani was born in Iran just six years after the 1953 Iranian coup d'état – an overthrow of an elected Prime Minister led by the United Kingdom and the United States that left lasting damage to the U.S. reputation in the region.

Mozhgan Savabieasfahani
Now, 62 years later as an independent environmental toxicologist based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Savabieasfahani’s research sheds light on how the U.S. is still impacting lives in the Middle East.

Savabieasfahani's work has helped uncover the rise in birth defects in Iraqi cities after the 2003 invasion. She has linked chemicals and metals left behind by the U.S armed forces to the health impacts.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2015/mar/war-birth-defects-iraq-rachel-carson

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Lenny Siegel
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