Curriculum vitae

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education

• Ph.D. Environment & Resources (2010), Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• M.S. Conservation Biology (2002), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

• B.S. Natural Resources, with honors (1998), Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

professional affiliations

• Gund Institute for Environment

• Planetary Health Alliance

• Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute

• University of Vermont Integrative Health Program

• Vermont Public Health Association

awards (selected)

• Outstanding Part-Time Faculty Teaching Award, University of Vermont (2020)

• Gaylord Nelson Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, University of Wisconsin (2005-2006)

research presentations (selected)

• University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine Community Medical School: Climate Change - A 21st Century Public Health Crisis (February 2020)

• Burlington Geographic: Human Health & the Environment in Burlington Through Time (December 2019; Start at minute 10:30 and again 1:33:00)

peer-reviewed publications (selected)

• Vatovec, Christine, Jane Kolodinsky, Peter Callas, Christine Hart, Katherine Gallagher. 2021. Pharmaceutical pollution sources and solutions: Statewide survey of human and veterinary medication purchasing, use, and disposal in Vermont. Journal of Environmental Management.

• Kostrubiak, Marc, Zachary Johns, Christine Vatovec, Megan Malgeri, Mitchell Tsai. 2021. Environmental externalities of switching from inhalational to total intravenous anesthesia. Anesthesia & Analgesia.

• Kostrubiak, Marc, Christine Vatovec, Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux, Donna Rizzo, William Paganelli, Mitchell Tsai. 2020. Water Pollution and Environmental Concerns in Anesthesiology. Journal of Medical Systems. 44(9): 1-7. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-020-01634-2

• Millarhouse, Alexandra, Christine Vatovec, Meredith Niles, and Adrian Ivakhiv. 2020. What’s in your body of water? Reducing the psychological distance of pharmaceutical pollution through metaphoric framing in risk communication. Environmental Management. 65: 630–641. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-020-01275-8

• Carmichael, Christine, Cecilia Dans, Christine Vatovec. 2019. Assigning blame: How local narratives shape community responses to extreme flooding events in Detroit, Michigan and Waterbury, Vermont. Environmental Communications. (In the news: City Lab)

• Carmichael, Christine, Cecilia Danks, and Christine Vatovec. 2019. Green infrastructure solutions to health impacts of climate change: perspectives of affected residents in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Sustainability. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su11205688

• Vatovec, Christine, Corey Evans, Emily Van Wagoner. 2017. Investigating sources of pharmaceutical pollution: survey of over-the-counter and prescription medication purchasing, use, and disposal practices among university students. Journal of Environmental Management (198): 348-352. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.04.101

• Vatovec, Christine, Phillips, Patrick, Van Wagoner, Emily, Scott, Tia-Marie, Furlong, Edward. 2016. Investigating dynamic sources of pharmaceuticals: Demographic and seasonal use are more important than down-the-drain disposal in wastewater effluent in a University City setting. Science of the Total Environment http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.07.199

• Berkman AM, Trentham-Dietz A, Dittus K, Hart V, Vatovec CM, King JG, James TA, Lakoski SG, Sprague BL. 2015. Health behavior change following a diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in situ: An opportunity to improve health outcomes. Prev Med. 2015 Apr 6. pii: S0091-7435(15)00098-5. doi: 10.1016 /j.ypmed.2015.03.020.

• Vatovec C, Erten M, Kolodinsky J, Brown P, Wood M, James T, Sprague BL. 2014. Ductal carcinoma in situ: a brief review of treatment variation and impacts on patients and society. Critical Reviews in Eukaryotic Gene Expression 24(4): 281–286.

• Vatovec C, Senier L, Bell M. 2013. The ecology of dying: commodity chains, governance, and the medicalization of end-of-life care. In: Ecological Health: Society, Ecology and Health (Advances in Medical Sociology, Volume 13) Gislason (ed.), Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

• Vatovec C, Senier L, Bell M. 2013. An ecological perspective on medical care: environmental, occupational, and public health impacts of medical supply and pharmaceutical chains. EcoHealth. DOI: 10.1007/s10393-013-0855-1

• Severtson L, Vatovec C. 2012. The theory-based influence of map features on risk beliefs: self-reports of what is seen and understood for maps depicting an environmental health hazard. Journal of Health Communication.

• Bell M, Lloyd S, Vatovec C. 2010. Activating the countryside: rural power, the power of the rural, and the making of rural politics. Sociologia Ruralis 50(3): 205-224.

service (selected)

• Climate Strategy Team, Vermont Department of Health (2017-present)

• Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products Workgroup, Agency for Natural Resources, Department of Environmental Conservation, Vermont (2014-2016)

• Prescription Drug Abuse Workgroup, Vermont Department of Health (2014-2016)

• Health & Society Curriculum Development Working Group (2016 - present)

• University of Vermont Sustainability Curriculum Review Committee (2014-2016)

• University of Vermont Diversity Curriculum Review Committee (2014-2015)

• University of Vermont General Education Committee on Sustainability Learning Outcomes (2013-2014)

• Hosted Outdoor Experience Learning Community lecturer (2019) Florence Williams, author of The Nature Fix

• Nominated and hosted Burack Distinguished Lecturer (2017) and Rubenstein Distinguished Lecturer (2016), Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH, Nobel Laureate.

• Nominated and hosted Burack Distinguished Lecturer (2015), Teri Balser, PhD, Carnegie Foundation US Professor of the Year in 2010