Jim Brophy and Margaret Keith, adjunct assistant professors in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology, recently authored a resolution passed by the American Public Health Association based on their research into environmental and occupational links to breast cancer.

Brophy and Keith were initiators and co-authors of the resolution, “Breast Cancer and Occupation: A Need for Action,” as members of the University of Stirling’s Occupational and Environmental Health Research Group.

“Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer in women across the globe,” Brophy says. “But the majority of women do not have the known or suspected risk factors, therefore more attention to the exposures and hazards faced by women at work is required.”

The resolution calls for prioritizing research on occupational and other environmental causes of breast cancer; read the full text.