What is environmental health? Why do we need the EPA? What does pea soup have to do with this episode? Today we talk about environmental health and touch on a couple of topics of interest. Also, David Rosner, PhD, MPH, from Columbia University joins us for a conversation about lead, health disparities, and why lead was added to just about everything despite manufacturers knowing it was a deadly poison.

Viral is written and produced by Linsey Grove and Quinn Lundquist with help from Will Baldwin.