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PRCCEH 2025 Year in Review
Thank you for another great year at Philadelphia Regional Center for Children’s Environmental Health. We appreciate all our wonderful members, partners, and collaborators. Please enjoy this infographic of the year that was!
Safe Toys and Gift Month
If you’re planning holiday gift purchases for loved ones this season, especially the children in your life, make sure you avoid harmful ingredients.
PFAS Health Study for Medical Professionals
Community-based primary care clinicians who work in the Delaware River Valley are invited to participate in a study to assess how the ATSDR clinical information fact sheet is used in real-world applications of PFAS clinical prevention and management for children.
Upcoming Events
Health Risks from Air Pollution: Costs of Relaxing Standards
His work with other researchers on the health effects of ozone exposure has focussed on the cardiovascular effects of air pollution and on factors which modify the body’s response, with some evidence that diabetics patients are more susceptible.
Science for Public Health Policy: Understanding correlation and causation.
In this timely discussion, CHE will explore how scientists move beyond observing correlations to making stronger inferences about causation, especially when decisions about public health and the environment are at stake
CHE Café: How states can lead on environmental health
This webinar will feature Susan Kaplan, author of the recently released book A Healthy Union: How States Can Lead on Environmental Health.
The Race to Research: Plastic, Microplastics, and Human Health
Megan J. Wolff, PhD, MPH, will deliver dynamic and in-depth lecture on what is known – and what is being researched – about the impacts of plastics on human health.
Latest Webinars
Telehealth based primary prevention of childhood lead poisoning: Webinar Recording
Presentation by Noah Buncher, DO, FAAP, CHOP General Pediatrician on his past and current pilot projects on telehealth education and primary prevention of childhood lead poisoning.
Assessing childhood exposure to toxic metals during 3-D printing: Webinar Recording
Thomas Gluodenis, PhD, Professor at Lincoln University of PA discusses his PRCCEH pilot project research into potential toxic metal exposure from the 3-D printing process.