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EPISODE · Jul 12, 2026 · 9 MIN

Hair Care and Black Women’s Health

from Environmental Health Chat · host NIEHS Partnerships for Environmental Public Health

In this podcast, we’ll hear from Jasmine McDonald, Ph.D., who studies the link between hair product use and breast cancer risk among women of color. McDonald talks about differences in hair product use by race, what exposure to the chemicals in these products means for health, and an intervention study she is leading to reduce the use of hair products containing harmful chemicals among pregnant women of color.

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