Contested Illnesses Research Group
Brown University , Providence RI

Alison Cohen is an undergraduate concentrating in Community Health, with a focus on environmental health justice. She has taken courses in environmental justice, environmental health policy, community-based participatory research, and toxicology. She joined the Contested Illnesses Research Group in the fall of 2007. She currently works for Professor Phil Brown as a research assistant for the Community Outreach Core of the Superfund Basic Research Program, and has also worked as a research assistant for Professor Rachel Morello-Frosch on social epidemiology work. She was awarded Brown University's Royce fellowship in 2007 to pursue a project considering how to effectively communicate environmental justice in the community health and education settings.