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.
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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.”
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.
Marisa S. Bartolomei, PhD, is the new Director of the Center for Women’s Health and Reproductive Medicine
Marisa S. Bartolomei, PhD, Perelman Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, is the new Director of the Center for Women’s Health and Reproductive Medicine
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.
ECHO Research Explores Potential Value of Nutrition Data Collected from Pregnancy Through Adolescence for Understanding Child Health
Collaborative ECHO research led by Megan Bragg, PhD, RD and PRCCEH member Kristen Lyall, ScD, both of the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute highlights the opportunity for researchers to access the large amount of diet information already collected from the ECHO Cohort.
Researchers from CHOP, Drexel find disparities in rates of certain preterm births
A team of researchers from Drexel University and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (including Center members Drs. Jane Clougherty and Heather Burris) studied how different circumstances of preterm birth may indicate the health of the parents and their surrounding community at a geographic level.
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.
PRCCEH’s 2023 Year in Review
View our infographic for a look back at our Center’s achievements and partnerships in 2023!
We’re Hiring! Apply to be a part-time Climate Change and Health Assistant
The Philadelphia Regional Center for Children’s Environmental Health is hiring up to two Climate Change and Health Communication Assistants to support our work adding climate change as a focus area to our programming.
PEPH 2024 | Climate Change and Environmental Justice: Engaging Diverse Teams
The purpose of this three-day meeting is to bring grantees and partners within the Partnerships for Environmental Public Health network together for the first time since February 2020 to discuss common issues, approaches, and opportunities. The focus will be on engaging diverse teams in the context of the intersection of climate change and environmental justice.
Marisa Bartolomei gave the 2023 NIEHS Hans L. Falk Memorial Lecture
As the invited speaker for the 2023 NIEHS Hans L. Falk Memorial Lecture, Center member Marisa Bartolomei highlighted the contributions she and her research group at the University of Pennsylvania have made.
Dr. Marilyn Howarth was interviewed by the Partnerships for Environmental Public Health podcast
Our Center Deputy Director, Marilyn Howarth, MD, was interviewed by the Environmental Health Chat podcast on lead in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia proclaims October 12, 2023 as Children’s Environmental Health Day
Councilmember Jamie Gauthier and the City Council of Philadelphia declared October 12th as Children’s Environmental Health Day in the city.
PRCCEH receives NIEHS grant to add climate change as a focus
PRCCEH received a new 1-year NIEHS Administrative Supplement to add a fifth focus area: climate change!
CHOP and Penn Researchers receive $50 Million NIH Grant to study impact of environmental factors on pregnancy and children’s health
The Penn-CHOP ECHO program will enroll patients at Penn Medicine during pregnancy and follow the infants into childhood at CHOP.
Dr. South Named Associate Vice President for Health Justice and Inaugural Director of the Penn Medicine Center for Health Justice
Congratulations to Dr. Eugenia South, who was appointed Associate Vice President for Health Justice for the University of Pennsylvania Health System (a newly created role) and named Inaugural Director of the Penn Medicine Center for Health Justice.
Center member, Inkyu Han, studies microplastics in Philadelphia’s air
Inkyu Han, PhD, one of PRCCEH’s newest members and an environmental health scientist with the Temple University College of Public Health was recently featured for his work on microplastics in the College of Public Health news.
The Qualitative Institute Fall 2023
The Qualitative Institute (TQI) is a comprehensive educational program. Attendees will learn new skills and expand on prior strengths in qualitative and mixed methods research. Join experts from: Jefferson, University of Pennsylvania, Temple, Drexel, & Vanderbilt.
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.
Rowhomes Versus Refineries – Drexel’s Environmental Collaboratory
Story in Drexel Magazine about the Environmental Collaboratory and Center member Jane Clougherty
Cities have long made plans for extreme heat. Are they enough in a warming world?
Center member Inkyu Han, PhD, was interviewed for a recent AP story on extreme heat in our cities.
Two members featured in Penn’s annual celebration of university research
This year’s edition of the Research at Penn magazine has two stories featuring PRCCEH members.
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.