Her research is in the areas of environmental law and policy, risk regulation, and the distribution of harms from industrial pollution. Her empirical research project in partnership with the Aamjiwnaang First Nation, downwind of Canada's Chemical Valley, has generated insights for environmental justice scholarship, feminist theory of the body, and feminist torts. Since 2008, she has been the Director of the National Network on Environments and Women's Health, which, until Budget 2012, was a federally-funded Center of Excellence in women's health research.