Thomas PlantBoston Public Health Commission · Environmental and Occupational Health
Thomas Plant
Master of Science
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Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention
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Investigation of illegal deleading by renovation contractors found high numbers of Brazilian immigrants scraping lead paint and conducting demolition and construction work unaware of the dangers of lead poisoning posed by these activities. Short-term exposure was stopped by issuing cease work orders to contractors for violation of the Massachusetts...
The Boston lead safe yards low cost lead in soil treatment, demonstration, and evaluation was developed to explore the viability and effectiveness of low-cost soil interventions to reduce exposure to soil lead hazards. Buildings that had been abated for lead to Massachusetts's deleading standards in the previous 5 yrs and met other program requirem...
In a pilot project initiated in September of 2001, the Boston Public Health Commission, in collaboration with the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, developed a methodology for super-imposing historical and present-day industrial land use data layers with demographic information and public health...
In an ongoing pilot project initiated in September of 2001, The Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC), in collaboration with the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), developed a methodology to superimpose historical and present-day industrial land use datalayers with demographic information a...
