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PFAS and Child Development: A Children’s Environmental Health Day Event
OnlineIn advance of Children's Environmental Health Day, PRCCEH is hosting a virtual event on the impacts of PFAS to children and fetal development.
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Safe Spaces: Protecting Student Health on Children’s Environmental Health Day and Every Day
OnlineThis webinar will provide an overview of the unique vulnerabilities of children to environmental health hazards, including students and staff in the school environment focusing on both legacy and emerging threats
Leave Lead Behind: How to Protect Your Family from Exposure
OnlineSubject matter experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will serve as presenters for this webinar on lead.
Collaborating for Child Well-being: A Toolkit for Local Health Departments & Early Care and Education Programs
OnlineThis webinar will introduce the new toolkit which provides practical guidance, tools and real-world examples to help Local Health Departments (LHDs) and Early Care and Education (ECE) organizations build and sustain effective partnerships.
Engaging Communities in Research: From Manganese in Marietta to the Train Derailment in East Palestine, Ohio
OnlineDr Haynes will walk us through her journey as postdoctoral fellow working with residents of Marietta, Ohio to address their concerns about a ferromanganese refinery to her latest community partnerships in East Palestine, Ohio and many in between. Although each study has a different exposure of concern, each one has been conducted with and for the community with the same guiding principles of community-engaged research.
Drinking Water from Private Wells: Risks, Barriers, and Environmental Challenges
OnlineThis Grand Rounds series will provide healthcare providers with state-of-the-science content on current topics in pediatric environmental health. Such information will fill in the knowledge gaps of practitioners, enabling them to effectively counsel families whose children face possible health issues due to environmental chemicals, toxins, and other insults.
The Brain in Focus: Environmental Exposures, MRI, and Adolescent Brain Health
OnlineScientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai will share the latest research on how the environment affects health. Through this webinar series, we aim to translate our science to empower families and communities to understand the science and make the lifestyle changes that matter most.
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Examining the role of diet in the study of Bisphenol A and child neurodevelopment: A pilot project
OnlineNovember seminar of the PRCCEH. Led by Kristen Lyall, Sc.D., Associate Professor, and Marisa Patti, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, of the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute at Drexel University. They will discuss the results of their PRCCEH pilot project.
Environmental Health Risks, Responses, and Resilience
OnlineMid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health & the Environment will cover PFAS, extreme cold, and stresses and challenges for the caregiver in addressing EH issues.
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The NJ Safe Schools Program at Rutgers
OnlineThe PRCCEH December 2024 seminar: The NJ Safe Schools Program at Rutgers School of Public Health, and, selected findings from 2021-2023 NJ Newer High School Teachers Training-to-Research Cohort Study.
Healthy Schools, Healthy Children
OnlineScientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai will share the latest research on how the environment affects health. Through this webinar series, we aim to translate our science to empower families and communities to understand the science and make the lifestyle changes that matter most.
Challenges and opportunities for extreme heat preparedness and response in U.S. cities
OnlinePlease join the Drexel Climate Change and Urban Health Research Center (CCUH) and the Climate Change and Urban Health in Latin America (SALURBAL Climate) project for a webinar featuring Dr. Nicole Errett of the University of Washington.
Climate Change and Human Health 101
OnlinePenn's Environmental Innovations Initiative is leading a talk on the impact of climate change on human health with the goal of increasing environmental literacy. The December speaker is Farah N Hussain, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at Penn Medicine.