How can you reduce health effects of endocrine-disrupting chemicals?
Nearly 300 researchers, clinicians, and community members gathered to share research, steps people can take to reduce exposure to EDCs.
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Women For A Healthy Environment and PRCCEH announce findings of pilot project on shade structures in childcare settings
Women For A Healthy Environment (WHE) released the findings of its 2024 Shade Study, a pilot project investigating the impact of shade structures on outdoor play in childcare settings within 4 Philadelphia environmental justice neighborhoods.
Children’s Health & Extreme Heat
When exposed to heat and humidity, children are at higher risk of heat-related illness than most adults, and this can be worse if a child becomes dehydrated.
Student campaign bans pesticides at Drexel
Drexel University’s groundskeepers will replace the synthetic chemicals campus-wide, with an organic turf program.
Indoor Air Quality Study Completion in Philadelphia Childcare Facilities
Women for a Healthy Environment recently announced their report following an EPA-sponsored indoor air quality study of Philadelphia childcare facilities.
How to protect children from the health effects of climate change
From extreme heat to storms, pests, pollution, and more, our kids are feeling the effects of climate change.
The Potentially Cancer-Causing Chemicals That May Be Hiding in Your Beauty Products
Vague terms on ingredient lists can conceal real hazards. That means the hard work of assessing product risk usually falls to everyday people.
The Bureau of Family Health invites you to help influence Pennsylvania’s Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant
The Bureau of Family Health requests your voice to help identify the seven to ten priorities that will drive Pennsylvania’s Title V programs.
10 Simple Cleaning Tips to Help You Breathe Better at Home
Take these steps to help eliminate allergy and asthma triggers. This article is part of a series on ShareCare featuring experts in children’s environmental health.
3 Cancer-Causing Chemicals That May Be Hiding in Your Home
Knowledge is safety. Learn how to protect yourself and loved ones from VOCs, BPA and benzene.
Priorities of the President’s Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children
The President’s Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children (Task Force) has published their priority activities for the next 5 years. Their priorities align with the focus areas of the PRCCEH.
CEET Pilot Project Program call for applications
The Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology at Penn’s Spring 2024 Pilot Project Program call for applications is open. Investigators can apply for funding to advance Environmental Health Science research. Awards of up to $50,000 available, and Feb. 29 is the deadline.
How to Love Your Pet—and Live Better with Allergic Asthma
Our partner, the Center for Children’s Health Assessment, Research Translation, and Combating Environmental Racism (CHARTER) at Emory University, helped write this blog post on ShareCare with tips to breathe easy at home, even if you’re allergic to your pet.
Researchers from CHOP, Drexel find disparities in rates of certain preterm births
A team of researchers from Drexel University and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (including Center members Drs. Jane Clougherty and Heather Burris) studied how different circumstances of preterm birth may indicate the health of the parents and their surrounding community at a geographic level.
To improve maternal health in Philly, a Penn Medicine program has homed in on food insecurity
The issue affects nearly 1 in 4 Americans and can lead to anemia, low birth weight and death. Providers seek to address it by connecting patients to healthy food sources
The Powerful Connection Between Stress and Asthma
Learn how strong emotions can affect asthma symptoms—and find ways to breathe easier.
Drexel Climate Change and Urban Health Research Center
Drexel University received a multi-million dollar grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to establish the Drexel Climate Change and Urban Health Research Center
Chester County launches Whole-Home Repairs program for homeowners with low to moderate incomes
Through a state initiative, Chester County officials are trying to support qualified homeowners with low and moderate incomes with up to $25,000 for repair costs.
Request for Information: Environmental Justice Research Gaps, Opportunities and Capacity Building
The NIH Environmental Justice Working Group invites feedback on the approaches NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices can take to support research and capacity building efforts to advance environmental justice in the U.S. and globally
Drexel’s Dornsife School of Public Health to serve as national coordinating center for new NIH Community-led Health Equity Research Program
Drexel received a $20 million award to be disbursed over five years from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Common Fund through the agency’s Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society (ComPASS) program to study health equity solutions nationwide.
Climate Week 2023 highlights the links between biodiversity and the climate crisis
The climate crisis impacts everyone. During Climate Week at Penn, which will be held from Sept. 18-22, everyone is invited to find their place in the climate movement.
$19 Million from NIH establishes Maternal Health Implementation Science Hub at Penn Medicine
Penn Medicine will serve a critical role in driving research to reduce pregnancy-related complications and deaths and promote maternal health equity through a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant. The $19 million, seven-year grant funds the creation of an implementation science hub as part of the NIH’s new Maternal Health Research of Centers of Excellence initiative.
3 Facts About Asthma and Kids All Caregivers Need to Know
Understand how asthma may show unique symptoms in children—and learn what you can do to help improve asthma outcomes in your community.
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?