❤️all my followers - but I am not posting here anymore - follow me on blue sky - Tracey Woodruff.bsky.social you can check out my new profile pic ;-) see you there

hey - see your statement on RFK appointment How can we make people healthier and get rid of toxic chemicals if we put chemical corporations in charge at federal agencies? prheucsf.blog/2025/02/13/sta…

‼️A new study by IHPS faculty member Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH, published in Environmental Science & Technology, reviews the impact of microplastics on digestive, reproductive, and respiratory health.🩺

📷 You can not make this sh** up! Check out the 'facts' on banning plastic straws closely. You can see their Achilles heel It's PFAS. They argue paper straws have PFAS. And they use this argument because no one wants PFAS whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

See excellent article by Liza Gross on our new Center to address the leading global disease risk factor corporations and the products they produce Drawing on research using the amazing UC San Francisco Industry Documents Library

Jane van Dis MD 🌎 Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH 80% of those deaths (1-in-5 worldwide) is due to fossil fuel pollution: hsph.harvard.edu/c-change/news/…

hmmm, well science disagrees - even judges know this see this article - yahoo.com/news/judge-gra… "not every person has an XX or XY chromosome at birth. She said there are 30 different examples of intersex people, such as those with XXX chromosomes or ambiguous genitalia."

A study revealed that microplastics significantly impede photosynthesis in both terrestrial plants and marine algae, leading to an estimated 12% reduction in staple crops and a 7% decline in marine algae productivity: theguardian.com/environment/20…

so well deserved!

Is this the end of Environmental Health Perspectives ? ehp.niehs.nih.gov/do/10.5555/bf1… I fear that this might be the case

FDA could approve the petition from environmental health and public health groups to ban certain phthalates in food contact materials RIGHT NOW - don't even need to do all this - if they are serious

This study is another reason the government needs to move faster, not slower, to regulate PFAS exposures - see the links to childhood leukemia, which has been increasing 👇👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Health scientist Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH studies how large companies influence our health behind the scenes. She tells New Scientist about the surprising levels of power they hold and how we can all fight back. newscientist.com/article/248112…

Microplastics are everywhere—and they're invisible to the naked eye. But what do these ever-present particles mean for our health and future? UCSF’s Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH discusses plastic pollution and ways to manage exposure (without driving yourself nuts). ucsfh.org/3ZF6c5e

Big Oil, Global Warming, and a Calculated Stitch by 2024 Artist in Residence & UCSF School of Medicine alumna Ruth Tabancay is on view at the Kalmanovitz Library through June 2026! Come see how this exhibition combines textile art, history & health sciences! UCSF Archives Industry Documents Library

ICYMI, UC San Francisco Magazine published a wonderfully informative article about microplastics in the human body. Give it a read and see what Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH, PhD and friend of Beyond Plastics, has to say on the matter: magazine.ucsf.edu/plastic-inside…

🎉Congrats to The Forever Lobbying Project, winner of the 2025 Helen Darbishire Award! Thankful to have partnered on releasing 14K docs exposing chemical industry lobbying against EU #PFAS action. 👇 🔗 access-info.org/2025-08-01/win… Access the documents on IDL: bit.ly/4lfPjWT

A great case study of corporate playbook tactics for promoting #opioids like tapentadol (but also used for tobacco, food, chemicals, etc.)

An infographic compares spending on drugs in America compared with other countries. The infographic is part of a 2014 Mallinckrodt slide deck on “infographic rollout concepts.” See more in #OIDAimages: images.oida-resources.jhu.edu/dde5fa86-96d3-…

New Paper Alert! 🎉 Lacy-Nichols, Baradar, Crosbie & Cullerton show when #lobbying lacks transparency, industry interests can undermine policymaking, eroding public trust & accountability. #protectpublichealth doi.org/10.1111/1468-0…