Philadelphia Regional Center for Children's Environmental Health

Climate Change for Urban Health Researchers: Summer Institute
2024-06-24 - 2024-06-28 | Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health, Nesbitt Hall 3215 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104
This Drexel University Urban Health Summer Institute course will provide an overview of

the public health impacts of a global climate change in urban areas,
urban policies for climate change mitigation and adaptation and the resulting benefits and harms to public health, and
fundamental concepts and research methods from exposure science and epidemiology to assess exposures and quantify the impacts of climate change on urban health. The course will have a specific focus on marginalized and/or vulnerable subpopulations and the role of climate hazards and climate policies in exacerbating or ameliorating health disparities.

Learning objectives:

Explain the scientific basis of observed and projected climate changes.
Describe the broad spectrum of public health impacts of climate hazards in urban areas (heat waves, floods, air pollution, sea level rise, population displacement, etc.) and distinguish the ways in which climate exposures and health impacts are distributed differentially within and across urban populations.
Identify urban policies to mitigate and adapt to climate change and characterize the public health benefits and harms of these policies, with a focus on marginalized and/or vulnerable populations.
Define key concepts and research methods to quantify climate exposures and health impacts in urban populations.

Prerequisite knowledge: Understanding of basic epidemiological concepts and methods, if possible.
Technical requirements: No software will be required. Students will use publicly available, online interactive apps/websites.
Continuing Education Credits*: 1.5 CEU or 15 CPH

The Neuroexposome: Data-Driven Approaches Supporting New Research Questions in Children’s Environmental Neuroscience
2024-06-25 10:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Online
The NIEHS Keystone Science Lecture by the Division of Extramural Research and Training.
Megan Horton, Ph.D., M.P.H., Professor, Department of Environmental Medicine and Climate Science, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Hosted by Kim Gray, PhD

Reducing Lead Exposure in Your Community: Lead Awareness Curriculum Train-the-Trainer
2024-06-25 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
The webinars will focus on the Lead Awareness Curriculum, an adaptable resource for educating and protecting communities from potential lead exposure. These webinars are intended for community leaders with experience educating and training members of their communities. The webinars will teach attendees how to use and modify the Lead Awareness Curriculum to educate their communities about lead, lead exposure, and actions to reduce and prevent childhood lead exposure. Prior knowledge of lead or lead exposure is not needed to use the curriculum and attendees will receive a digital certificate of participation after completing the session. Click here to learn more about June 12 webinar (offered in Spanish) or click here to learn more about June 25 webinar (offered in English).
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency invites you to join us for a 2.5-hour Train-the-Trainer webinar to learn about the Lead Awareness in Indian Country: Keeping our Children Healthy! Curriculum (commonly referred to as the Lead Awareness Curriculum). By the end of the webinar, participants will know simple actions they can take to reduce lead exposure, be familiar with all materials included within the Lead Awareness Curriculum, understand how the curriculum is designed to be modified to fit an individual community’s needs, and have a plan for how to facilitate sessions in their own communities. Attendees will receive a digital certificate of participation upon completion of the webinar. The curriculum was built with tribes but designed to be adaptable for all communities. It is designed to be taught by community leaders with experience educating and training members of their community. Prior knowledge of lead or lead exposure is not required to teach the curriculum. To learn more and to download the curriculum, visit https://www.epa.gov/lead/tribal-lead-curriculum.
