This 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
Thinking about a health career? Passionate about addressing climate change? At this panel, hear lightning talks from 10 Penn faculty and staff about their varied routes into careers that blend a focus on health and climate, from medicine to nursing to veterinary science. Audience Q&A to follow. Refreshments will be served! Open to all.
NLPPW is a call to bring together individuals, organizations, industry, and Tribal, state and local governments to reduce childhood exposure to lead by increasing lead poisoning prevention awareness.
Subject matter experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will serve as presenters for this webinar on lead.
This 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.
Dr 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.
This 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 June 28, 2024, Supreme Court decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo overturning Chevron deference marks a pivotal shift that could reshape environmental regulation as we know it. The longstanding Chevron decision established the principle that federal courts must defer to an agency’s reasonable interpretation of any statute deemed to be ambiguous. With the […]
Scientists 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.
November 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.
Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health & the Environment will cover PFAS, extreme cold, and stresses and challenges for the caregiver in addressing EH issues.
Leonardo Trasande, MD, MPP is an internationally renowned leader in children’s environmental health. This seminar has an in-person and virtual option.
This year’s symposium will bring together community members, researchers, healthcare professionals, and representatives from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to meet the challenges that we face in the Philadelphia metropolitan region
