Dylan Pilger works as a graduate research assistant on a manuscript about U.S. military legacy contaminants in the USAPI and Hawaiʻi, continuing his work from his time as a Peter J. Rappa Fellow.

His passion is collaborative, community-based research that explores the environmental health impacts of military activity on Indigenous and other Pacific Island communities. He approaches research from a holistic perspective seeking to understand the physical, cultural, and psychological health impacts of contamination on communities, taking into account historical and ongoing power imbalances, all to achieve health equity.

Key Research Interests:
Indigenous health
Environmental health
Militarism