Harvard Chan School News · May 23, 2024

Featuring Gregory Bratman, Nature and Health co-director and researcher

A group of scientists has proposed a framework for expanding research into how odors and scents from natural settings impact human health and well-being.

The proposal was outlined in a May 15 paper in Science Advances. First author was Gregory Bratman, a University of Washington assistant professor of environmental and forest sciences and a JPB Environmental Health Fellow at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Co-authors of the paper included John Spengler, Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation and director of the JPB fellowship program, and Nancy Long Sieber, adjunct lecturer on physiology.