PRCCEH’s 2023 Year in Review
View our infographic for a look back at our Center’s achievements and partnerships in 2023!
Tag: asthma
The Powerful Connection Between Stress and Asthma
Learn how strong emotions can affect asthma symptoms—and find ways to breathe easier.
USA Exposome Symposium: Children’s Health, Environmental Justice, and the Exposome
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.
Racism, Housing, and Asthma: A Conversation
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.
Small Communities, Big Challenges: Rural environmental public health needs prize competition
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.
Keeping Indoor Air Safe for Little Lungs: Webinar Recording
A discussion of best practices to improve indoor air quality at schools, daycare centers, childcare facilities, and at home.
15th Annual Fighting Asthma Disparities Summit
The 15th Annual Fighting Asthma Disparities Summit will explore a variety of ways in which we can address factors that drive asthma disparities.
3 Facts About Asthma and Kids All Caregivers Need to Know
Understand how asthma may show unique symptoms in children—and learn what you can do to help improve asthma outcomes in your community.
Keeping Indoor Air Safe for Little Lungs: A Children’s Environmental Health Day Event
A discussion of best practices to improve indoor air quality at schools, daycare centers, childcare facilities, and at home.
Children’s Environmental Health & the CDA
Join for a webinar on child care, children’s environmental health, and the Child Development Associate (CDA) credential.
Share Your Unhealthy Housing Story
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?
Keeping Children Healthy: Tips for an Environmentally Safe Summer in Childcare Webinar Recording
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, a one-stop source for air quality data, available as app
AirNow is also available as an app, allowing users to efficiently check current and future air quality information.
A look back at our 2nd Annual Symposium
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.
Impacts of Heat on Health in Early Life
A discussion on the alarming consequences of rising temperatures on fetuses, newborns, young children and birth outcomes.
Rowhomes Versus Refineries – Drexel’s Environmental Collaboratory
Story in Drexel Magazine about the Environmental Collaboratory and Center member Jane Clougherty
‘That house was like an oven’: How residents of Philly’s hottest neighborhoods are coping as temperatures rise
Hunting Park is one of the hottest neighborhoods in the city, and temperatures here can rise some 20 degrees above other parts of Philadelphia.
Left in the Dust: Wildfire smoke a growing hazard for vulnerable demographics
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.
Call for Applicants: Community Resilience & Environmental Justice Fund
This Fund will support community groups working to ensure that all Philadelphia residents have a livable community, free of environmental toxins and hazards.
Deadline to Apply: City of Philadelphia Community Resilience & Environmental Justice Fund
This Fund will support community groups working to ensure that all Philadelphia residents have a livable community, free of environmental toxins and hazards.
Philadelphia has a pediatric asthma rate 3x the national average
Overall, Black children 19 and younger are hospitalized due to asthma at a rate 5X that of white counterparts.
Announcing schedule for the PRCCEH 2nd Annual Symposium
Our annual symposium is set for Tuesday, July 18th with virtual and in-person attendance options.
When Helping Kids Means Healing the Planet: Climate Change and Childhood Lung Health
Join us for The Center For Excellence in Pulmonary Biology’s annual symposium for wide-ranging discussion on the impact of climate change on child lung health.
Penn Nursing is committed to training the next generation of nurses on sustainability and the climate crisis
The Penn Nursing blog has a long feature on sustainability efforts across the school, including those of Center member Jianghong Liu, PhD, RN, FAAN.