Enduring Legacy of Lead: Webinar Recording
September 2024 webinar of the Philadelphia Regional Center for Children’s Environmental Health. This webinar focused on the long-term impacts of lead exposure and how to properly communicate those impacts.
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Safe Spaces: Protecting Student Health on Children’s Environmental Health Day and Every Day
This webinar will provide an overview of the unique vulnerabilities of children to environmental health hazards, including students and staff in the school environment focusing on both legacy and emerging threats
Leave Lead Behind: How to Protect Your Family from Exposure
Subject matter experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will serve as presenters for this webinar on lead.
Penn’s $100M pledge to Philadelphia public schools is helping to remediate environmental hazards
Penn’s commitment of $10 million annually for 10 years was announced in 2020; Penn Today reports on the progress made.
National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week
NLPPW is a call to bring together individuals, organizations, industry, and Tribal, state and local governments to reduce childhood exposure to lead by increasing lead poisoning prevention awareness.
Harmful chemicals in tap water: how to protect your family’s health
Many U.S. families trust their tap water or believe they can fully control their private well. But do you know how contaminated your water may be?
Childhood Lead Surveillance Annual Report – 2022 Data
This is the Pennsylvania Department of Health’s (Department) 17th childhood lead surveillance annual report, covering data for children tested in Pennsylvania (PA) during the calendar year 2022.
Green Cleaning for Childcare Providers
Join the Women for a Healthy Environment and the PRCCEH for an essential professional development session on Green Cleaning designed specifically for early childcare providers. This event provides 2 PQAS credits.
The Enduring Legacy of Lead Poisoning
PRCCEH is proud to welcome Dr. Bruce Lanphear of Simon Fraser University to kick off the Fall 2024 seminar series. This hybrid event is Friday, September 13 at 10am Eastern.
HUD Healthy Homes Weatherization Cooperation Demonstration Grants
Join U.S. DOE Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP), and U.S. HUD Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes for an overview of the HUD Healthy Homes Weatherization Cooperation Demonstration Grant […]
Children’s Environmental Health Day Partner Info Session II
If you’re considering becoming a CEH Day Partner this October, join the Children’s Environmental Health Network for a brief informational session on CEH Day, Partner responsibilities and benefits, and how to get involved.
Children’s Environmental Health Day Partner Info Session I
If you’re considering becoming a Children’s Environmental Health Day Partner this October, join the Children’s Environmental Health Network for a brief informational session on CEH Day, Partner responsibilities and benefits, and how to get involved.
Presentations from the 2024 PRCCEH Annual Symposium
Presentations from the 2024 PRCCEH Symposium
Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology Symposium
This year’s symposium will bring together community members, researchers, healthcare professionals, and representatives from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to meet the challenges that we face in the Philadelphia metropolitan region
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.
Not So Sweet: Applesauce, Lunchables and Lead – Webinar Recording
The final PRCCEH virtual seminar of the Spring 2024 semester. Featuring, Kevin Osterhoudt, MD is a pediatrician, medical toxicologist and the Medical Director of The Poison Control Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Reducing Lead Exposure in Your Community: Lead Awareness Curriculum Train-the-Trainer
The webinars will focus on the Lead Awareness Curriculum, an adaptable resource for educating and protecting communities from potential lead exposure.
Reducing Lead Exposure in Your Community: Lead Awareness Curriculum Train-the-Trainer (Spanish)
The webinars will focus on the Lead Awareness Curriculum, an adaptable resource for educating and protecting communities from potential lead exposure. This one is in Spanish.
Beyond Paint – Lead Risks for People and Wildlife: Webinar Recording
As part of the University of Pennsylvania’s celebration of Earth Week 2024, this webinar features a panel discussion on the impact of lead exposure to people, wildlife and the environment.
State Policy Showcase: Reducing Exposure to Lead in Schools and Child Care Centers’ Drinking Water
Discuss policies in both Colorado and Michigan designed to help protect children from exposure to lead in drinking water at schools and child care facilities.
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.
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.
Beyond Paint: Lead Exposure Risks for People and Wildlife
As part of the University of Pennsylvania’s celebration of Earth Week 2024, we are pleased to bring you this panel discussion on the impacts of lead exposure to people, wildlife and the environment.