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Healthy Gulf Healthy Communities News…

HGHC Regional Paticipatory FORUM coming April 26, 2012. Check back here in May for summary of events and photos.

UF News Releases

UF-led team awarded more than $6.5 million for oil spill projects
Psychological effects of BP oil spill go beyond residents of impacted shorelines

In the News…

University of Maryland Medical Center. “Broader Psychological Impact of 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill“  ScienceDaily, 17 Feb. 2011. Web. 23 Feb. 2012.

Stressed Out: The Gulf Oil Spill Impacted Hundreds of Thousands of Floridians Mentally, Economically, and Legally. Explore Magazine.  J. Glenn Morris, Jr. (Healthy Gulf, Healthy Communities project investigator) and Bill Mahan (an extension agent with the Florida Sea Grant program in Franklin County) are cited. Click here for .pdf version of this article.

A Year After the Spill, “Unusual” Rise in Health Problems; National Geographic; The work of Lynn Grattan (Healthy Gulf, Healthy Communities researcher) is cited.