Katrina Goes to Class

How do you measure the environmental health of a city after a disaster? And once you have the data, how do you talk about it? "Those are questions we are answering every day in my classes," says Amy Vinturella.

She is a research assistant professor of environmental health sciences at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Vinturella was part of a team of environmental health professors, led by chair of environmental health sciences Maureen Lichtveld, who analyzed data and developed environmental health messages about New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

read the entire article at Tulane's "The New Wave" publication