Climate Change for Urban Health Researchers: Summer Institute
An overview of the public health impacts of a global climate change in urban areas, focusing on policy, research methods, and disparities.
Tag: research studies
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.
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.
Heat, Harvest and Health webinar recording
Recording of the February 2024 webinar by Dr. Daniel Jackson Smith on his research with farmworkers in South Georgia, particularly on heat health and climate change.
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.
Understanding and reducing your exposure to potential harmful chemicals in everyday products
PRCCEH member Kristen Lyall, ScD, and her team at the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute developed this short educational video on EDCs and how they are potentially found in common household items and food.
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.
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.
Not So Sweet: Applesauce, Lunchables and Lead
Kevin Osterhoudt, MD is a pediatrician, medical toxicologist and the Medical Director of The Poison Control Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Kevin is considered an international expert in the treatment of childhood lead poisoning.
Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program and Philadelphia
A multidisciplinary group of researchers from CHOP and Penn Medicine have received a $50 million grant from the NIH to study the impact of environmental influences on pregnancy and children’s health. The research program is part of the NIH’s Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program, which funds research to uncover how environmental exposures during preconception, pregnancy and early life affect children’s long-term health.
Heat, Harvest, and Health: Unraveling the Impact of Environmental Exposures on Farmworkers and Their Families
Monthly seminar of the Philadelphia Regional Center for Children’s Environmental Health. Speaker: Daniel J. Smith, Ph.D., AGPCNP-BC, CNE is a doctorally prepared nurse practitioner and the Weingarten Endowed Assistant Professor at Villanova University’s M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing.
PRCCEH’s 2023 Year in Review
View our infographic for a look back at our Center’s achievements and partnerships in 2023!
The 6th Annual DBEI Research Day
The 6th Annual DBEI Research Day is intended to showcase the expertise and research impact of the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics with the greater Penn community.
Drexel Climate Change and Urban Health Research Center
Drexel University received a multi-million dollar grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to establish the Drexel Climate Change and Urban Health Research Center
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.
Exploring the Placental Origins of Health and Disease: From environmental drivers to solutions
Webinar featuring Rebecca Fry, PhD, Director of the Institute for Environmental Health Solutions and The Carol Remmer Angle Distinguished Professor in Children’s Environmental Health in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at UNC-Chapel Hill.
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.
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.
Impacts of Heat on Health in Early Life: Webinar for Climate Week at Penn
This panel brings together health experts to discuss the alarming consequences of rising temperatures on human health, with a specific focus on the vulnerability of fetuses and newborns.
Lessons Learned from Community Translation Pilot Projects
A virtual discussion with 2 local nonprofits that each implemented a pilot project to improve children’s environmental health in the region.