Children’s Health & Extreme Heat
When exposed to heat and humidity, children are at higher risk of heat-related illness than most adults, and this can be worse if a child becomes dehydrated.
Tag: asthma
Asthma medication op-ed by Center member
Center member Tyra Bryant-Stephens, along with Chen Kenyon and Bianca Nfonoyim Bernhard wrote an op-ed for Stat News titled,As childhood asthma worsens, insurers restrict access to an essential medication.
Impacts of Extreme Heat on Maternal and Child Health: From Awareness to Action
The 9th Annual Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Symposium will explore the research and evidence on the impacts of extreme heat on maternal and child health and discuss ways families, communities, and governments can take action.
U.S. EPA Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee (CHPAC) Meeting
The Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee is a body of external researchers, academicians, health care providers, environmentalists, state and tribal government employees, and members of the public who advise the EPA on regulations, research, and communications related to children’s health.
American Lung Association’s State of the Air Report
The State of the Air 2024 report finds that despite decades of progress cleaning up air pollution, 39% of people living in America—131.2 million people—still live in places with failing grades for unhealthy levels of ozone or particle pollution.
National Healthy Homes Webinar Series: Detection of Asthma Triggers in the Home: Novel Methods for Allergen and Mold Detection
Webinar for National Healthy Homes Month on asthma triggers and mold detection.
PRCCEH 3rd Annual Symposium
The 3rd Annual PRCCEH Symposium brings together researchers, nonprofit organizations, governmental leaders and local residents to discuss and learn about the latest in children’s environmental health. Speakers will discuss the effects of lead poisoning, asthma, air pollution, climate change and toxic chemicals on pregnant people and young children.
Penn-CHOP ECHO Cohort and Methodological Innovations: Webinar Recording
This webinar overviews the Penn-CHOP ECHO program model, plans for the future, and how new methodological innovations and interventions will play a role in the ECHO cohort.
10 Simple Cleaning Tips to Help You Breathe Better at Home
Take these steps to help eliminate allergy and asthma triggers. This article is part of a series on ShareCare featuring experts in children’s environmental health.
Drexel Urban Health Collaborative featuring Anneclaire De Roos, PhD, MPH
Anneclaire DeRoos, PhD, MPH will present “Philadelphia greenspace during infancy & asthma incidence”, and Josiah Kephart, PhD, MPH and Andrea Jaffee will present “Climate change and temperature-related mortality in Latin American cities.”
Drexel Urban Health Collaborative Weekly Forum: Leah Schinasi, PhD, and Karlin Moore
Leah Schinasi, PhD will present on a topic related to heat, and Karlin Moore will present a THRIVEair project update.
Priorities of the President’s Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children
The President’s Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children (Task Force) has published their priority activities for the next 5 years. Their priorities align with the focus areas of the PRCCEH.
Healthy Communities Task Force Indoor Air Quality Meeting Series: Housing Quality and Health
Join the HCTF for our first of three webinars on indoor air quality and health. The first webinar in the series will focus on residential indoor air quality, exploring how our homes – from building materials to home maintenance to pests – affect indoor air quality and our health.
Public Health Day at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia: Connecting Public Health Professionals for Public Health Action
Join the College of Physicians of Philadelphia for short presentations on Public Health work being done in and around Philadelphia. The presentations will be followed by a networking event where you can connect with like-minded individuals and organizations.
CEET Pilot Project Program call for applications
The Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology at Penn’s Spring 2024 Pilot Project Program call for applications is open. Investigators can apply for funding to advance Environmental Health Science research. Awards of up to $50,000 available, and Feb. 29 is the deadline.
How to Love Your Pet—and Live Better with Allergic Asthma
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.
Excessive Heat and Air Pollution Are Putting Farmworkers’ Lives at Risk
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.
Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research (SPER) Annual Meeting
SPER’s 37th Annual Meeting is scheduled to be held June 17-18, 2024 in Austin!
PRCCEH’s 2023 Year in Review
View our infographic for a look back at our Center’s achievements and partnerships in 2023!
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.