Share Your Unhealthy Housing Story
The National Center for Healthy Housing and the Children’s Environmental Health Network want to hear from you. Have you and your family or someone you know been affected by unhealthy housing conditions?
Jessica Jones Gupta
Keeping Children Healthy: Tips for an Environmentally Safe Summer in Childcare Webinar Recording
Learn tips and information for keeping children healthy over the summer covering topics such as tick and mosquito management, sun safety, and indoor and outdoor air quality.
Deep Cleaning to Reduce Lead Hazards Webinar Recording
Learn about sources of lead exposure, its impacts on children’s health, and how to reduce lead hazards in early learning environments using deep cleaning techniques.
AirNow, a one-stop source for air quality data, available as app
AirNow is also available as an app, allowing users to efficiently check current and future air quality information.
A look back at our 2nd Annual Symposium
On Tuesday, July 18, the Philadelphia Regional Center for Children’s Environmental Health hosted its second annual Symposium. The goal of the Symposium was to bring together researchers, non-profit organizations, government agencies and the public to learn about the latest studies, experiments and programs focused on improving child health.
Rowhomes Versus Refineries – Drexel’s Environmental Collaboratory
Story in Drexel Magazine about the Environmental Collaboratory and Center member Jane Clougherty
Cities have long made plans for extreme heat. Are they enough in a warming world?
Center member Inkyu Han, PhD, was interviewed for a recent AP story on extreme heat in our cities.
Two members featured in Penn’s annual celebration of university research
This year’s edition of the Research at Penn magazine has two stories featuring PRCCEH members.
A new law is supposed to protect pregnant workers — but what if we don’t know how?
A new federal requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations to those who are pregnant. But public health experts say not nearly enough is known about which work circumstances are dangerous for pregnancies.
‘That house was like an oven’: How residents of Philly’s hottest neighborhoods are coping as temperatures rise
Hunting Park is one of the hottest neighborhoods in the city, and temperatures here can rise some 20 degrees above other parts of Philadelphia.
Enjoy the Summer while reducing your exposure to pesticides
Exposure to pesticides can have serious health and environmental impacts including poisoning wildlife, contaminating water, killing beneficial insects, and building up in the environment over time, leading to long-term contamination.
Left in the Dust: Wildfire smoke a growing hazard for vulnerable demographics
An interview by Villanova University with Center members Ruth McDermott-Levy and Daniel Jackson Smith, about the recent wildfires, climate change and impacts to public health.
Call for Applicants: Community Resilience & Environmental Justice Fund
This Fund will support community groups working to ensure that all Philadelphia residents have a livable community, free of environmental toxins and hazards.
Notice of Funding Opportunity: Supporting Communities to Reduce Lead Poisoning
The National Center for Environmental Health Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program is pleased to announce a new Notice of Funding Opportunity, Supporting Communities to Reduce Lead Poisoning.
Philadelphia has a pediatric asthma rate 3x the national average
Overall, Black children 19 and younger are hospitalized due to asthma at a rate 5X that of white counterparts.
Announcing schedule for the PRCCEH 2nd Annual Symposium
Our annual symposium is set for Tuesday, July 18th with virtual and in-person attendance options.
Hearing the Clocks Talk: Circadian regulation of lung inflammation and repair – Webinar Recording
On Tuesday, May 23, 2023, Dr. Shaon Sengupta, neonatologist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia gave a talk as part of the Center’s Spring 2023 seminar series on the impacts of changes to circadian rhythm to lung inflammation and repair.
Register now for the children’s environmental health training from the Teachers Institute of Philadelphia
The Teachers Institute of Philadelphia (TIP) invites teachers from around the School District of Philadelphia to participate in its fall 2023 Curriculum Laboratory.
Drexel Park becomes pilot site for organic land management
In April 2023, Drexel University began a pilot program for organic land management at Drexel Park.
Penn Nursing is committed to training the next generation of nurses on sustainability and the climate crisis
The Penn Nursing blog has a long feature on sustainability efforts across the school, including those of Center member Jianghong Liu, PhD, RN, FAAN.
Why Climate Change Might Be Affecting Your Headaches
According to the EPA, rising global average temperature continue to impact widespread changes in weather patterns, and extreme weather events are likely to become more frequent or more intense. Experts suggest that the stress of these events can trigger headaches.
Chester City Council passes lead certification ordinance
The City of Chester passed a new lead ordinance in a continued effort to end lead paint poisoning.
Center Deputy Director interviewed as part of segment on environmental justice in the Eastwick neighborhood
ABC News 6 featured some of the environmental justice issues faced by the residents of the Eastwick neighborhood in Philadelphia.
Health Impacts of Climate Change on Children in the United States: EPA Report
A new national-scale, multi-sector EPA report showcases some of the ways children are especially vulnerable to a variety of health effects from climate change due to physical, cognitive, behavioral, and social factors.