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.
One of our newest PRCCEH members Daniel Jackson Smith, Ph.D., AGPCNP-BC, CNE, was interviewed as part of a story on extreme heat events, air pollution and death among farmworkers in California.
SPER’s 37th Annual Meeting is scheduled to be held June 17-18, 2024 in Austin!
View our infographic for a look back at our Center’s achievements and partnerships in 2023!
Learn how strong emotions can affect asthma symptoms—and find ways to breathe easier.
This meeting will bring together academic, government, and community partners to share research findings, discuss the use of computational analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in analyzing results of large, multi-dimensional data sets, and discuss translational interventions and policies needed to reduce the effects of environmental injustice on child health.
Regional Asthma Management & Prevention (RAMP) and the National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) invite you to join a conversation on the connections between racism, housing, and asthma with three of the country’s leading practitioners and researchers.
This Competition seeks to identify innovative and inclusive approaches rural, local governments have developed for working with citizens, community groups, and other interested parties in rural communities to identify and address environmental public health concerns facing their people.
A discussion of best practices to improve indoor air quality at schools, daycare centers, childcare facilities, and at home.
The 15th Annual Fighting Asthma Disparities Summit will explore a variety of ways in which we can address factors that drive asthma disparities.
Understand how asthma may show unique symptoms in children—and learn what you can do to help improve asthma outcomes in your community.
A discussion of best practices to improve indoor air quality at schools, daycare centers, childcare facilities, and at home.
Join for a webinar on child care, children’s environmental health, and the Child Development Associate (CDA) credential.
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?
Learn tips and information for keeping children healthy over the summer covering topics such as tick and mosquito management, sun safety, and indoor and outdoor air quality.
AirNow is also available as an app, allowing users to efficiently check current and future air quality information.
On Tuesday, July 18, the Philadelphia Regional Center for Children’s Environmental Health hosted its second annual Symposium. The goal of the Symposium was to bring together researchers, non-profit organizations, government agencies and the public to learn about the latest studies, experiments and programs focused on improving child health.
A discussion on the alarming consequences of rising temperatures on fetuses, newborns, young children and birth outcomes.
Story in Drexel Magazine about the Environmental Collaboratory and Center member Jane Clougherty
Hunting Park is one of the hottest neighborhoods in the city, and temperatures here can rise some 20 degrees above other parts of Philadelphia.
An interview by Villanova University with Center members Ruth McDermott-Levy and Daniel Jackson Smith, about the recent wildfires, climate change and impacts to public health.
This Fund will support community groups working to ensure that all Philadelphia residents have a livable community, free of environmental toxins and hazards.
This Fund will support community groups working to ensure that all Philadelphia residents have a livable community, free of environmental toxins and hazards.
Overall, Black children 19 and younger are hospitalized due to asthma at a rate 5X that of white counterparts.
