A federally funded study led by Brown University researchers links increased childhood blood lead concentrations with increased depressive symptoms in adolescence, with larger increases when exposure occurred later in childhood.
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Department of Epidemiology
Christian Hoover
Biography
Christian Hoover is a student in the Epidemiology Ph.D. program at Brown and the Co-Investigator of the Firearm Exposure Research Team, an affiliate of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. At Harvard, Christian was a student in the Health Policy Master’s program, the 2023 James H. Ware Scholar, 2022 Deborah Rose Fellow, a 2021-23 Teaching Fellow, and former project manager in the Department of Environmental Health. As Co-Investigator, he also holds an appointment at the Massachusetts General Hospital. His research interests include firearm related injury, toxic metal exposure, and mental health.
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Firearms are dangerous, but their ammunition holds a silent threat: dangerously high levels of lead. Brown doctoral student Christian Hoover teams up with Professor Joseph Braun to examine the connection between guns and elevated lead levels in America’s children and adults.
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Brown-led research found that firearm-related lead ammunition use is an unregulated source of lead exposure in the U.S. that may disproportionately impact children.
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