{"id":27321,"date":"2023-06-28T01:05:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T05:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=27321"},"modified":"2025-08-01T01:25:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T05:25:03","slug":"madeleine-scammel","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/profile\/madeleine-scammel\/","title":{"rendered":"Madeleine Scammell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/profile\/madeleine-scammell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Madeleine Scammell<\/a> is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Health at the Boston University School of Public Health and <span>a JPB Environmental Health Fellow at Harvard School of Public Health. Her expertise is in the area of community-driven and community-based participatory research and includes the use of qualitative methods in the area of environmental health and epidemiologic studies. In 2017 Dr. Scammell was awarded an NIEHS\/NIH Outstanding New Environmental Scientist award, establishing the Mesoamerican Nephropathy Occupational Study (MANOS), longitudinal study of agricultural workers in El Salvador and Nicaragua.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In Massachusetts, Dr. Scammell leads the Local Public Health Institute out of BUSPH, with funding from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. In her own neighborhoods, Dr. Scammell co-leads the Chelsea &amp; East Boston Heat Study, C-HEAT, examining exposure to heat and poor air quality, where we live, work and play. This is in partnership with GreenRoots, Chelsea, a grassroots environmental justice organization. Dr. Scammell led the Community Engagement Cores of two research centers: The Boston University Superfund Research Center (funded by NIEHS\/NIH), and the Center for Research on Social and Environmental Stressors in Housing across the Lifecourse (joint center between Boston University and Harvard-Chan School of Public Health funded by NIMHD\/NIH and EPA). She continues to develop and support mechanisms to initiate and sustain long-and short-term research relationships between community groups and scientists, and respond to community requests for scientific assistance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=1_x4FCkAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Scholar<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18553,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/27321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18553"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/27321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38230,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/27321\/revisions\/38230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}