Barbara L. Allen

Barbara Allen is currently working on several research projects that examine the dynamics of citizens, science, regulation, and environmental justice in heavily polluted regions in the United States and the European Union. The research examines how different national, cultural, and institutional contexts condition the dynamics of citizen response to environmental problems and regulatory change. The projects also explore how citizens, organizations, and other non-traditional science institutions participate in the shaping of policy-relevant scientific and technical knowledge.

Additionally, Allen has been leading a Community-Based Participatory Environmental Health (CBPEH) project funded by the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health+Safety (ANSES) to develop, conduct, analyze, and disseminate an environmental health study in several towns in a polluted industrial zone. The project has a training workshop component that will enable French and European scholars and public health professional to learn this methodology (CBPEH), which has its origins in the U.S. environmental justice movement.