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Podcast: Rick Dayton
Episode: NIH grant to study East Palestine
Description: The University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health has received two grants from the National Institutes of Health to look into health effects from the environmental contamination of the East Palestine train derailment. The funding totals nearly $1 million and will span two years. Dr. Maureen Lichtveld, deal of the Pitt School of Public Health was a guest on the Rick Dayton Show to talk about how the money will be used and how residents will be trained to take samples of air and water that Pitt scientists will analyze.