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New Horizons: Building Bridges to Shape the Environmental Health Future Group discussion.

New Horizons: Building Bridges to Shape the Environmental Health Future

Our theme this year is New Horizons: Building Bridges to Shape the Environmental Health Future, focusing on responding to the needs of the profession with new topics like heat waves in the U.S., data modernization, burn-out, and artificial intelligence for environmental health, along with our traditional topics such as food safety and water quality.

U.S. EPA Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee (CHPAC) Meeting

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.

Priorities of the President’s Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children Child on playground equipment

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.

Public Health Day at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia: Connecting Public Health Professionals for Public Health Action Woman standing To address group meeting in community center

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.

Pa. to follow Philly’s lead on lead — new bill would remove old school water fountains to address contamination Child drinking cup of water by a window.

Pa. to follow Philly’s lead on lead — new bill would remove old school water fountains to address contamination

A bi-partisan bill in Harrisburg would provide funding for schools statewide to remove old drinking fountains and replace them with lead-filtering water stations. The bill is similar to a law passed in Philly last year

USA Exposome Symposium: Children’s Health, Environmental Justice, and the Exposome Researcher in a lab.

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.

Children got lead poisoning from fruit pouches. Here’s what to know. Mother feeding with spoon her little baby at home.

Children got lead poisoning from fruit pouches. Here’s what to know.

Three companies are recalling applesauce pouches because they may contain dangerous levels of lead, the FDA says. The recalled products include certain Schnucks Cinnamon Applesauce and variety pouches, WanaBana Apple Cinnamon Fruit Puree pouches and certain lots of Weis brand cinnamon applesauce pouches.

Small Communities, Big Challenges: Rural environmental public health needs prize competition Group of kids playing in a park.

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.

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