Tag: Toxic Chemicals – EDCs

Tools & Resources Webinar: America’s Children and the Environment

EPA’s America’s Children and the Environment (ACE) serves as a national barometer for children’s environmental health, featuring over 35 environmental and health indicators.

Maternal Health, Climate, and Plastics Webinar

Covers how microplastics and plastic-associated chemicals impact maternal physiology and fetal development. It will also explore evidence-based strategies for discussing these risks with patients and actionable steps to reduce plastic use and carbon footprint in medical practices.

2026 ECHO Symposium: Translating Science to Action

This free event will bring together researchers, policymakers, health professionals, and advocates to examine how chemical exposures affect child health and development and how science is being translated into meaningful action.

Prenatal diet and health: A research journey

This presentation will review the evolution of public health guidelines regarding fish consumption for pregnant women and children.

5th Annual Margo Simon Golden Memorial Webinar: Environmental Justice and Women’s Health

Dr. James-Todd’s work focuses on the importance of pregnancy as a sensitive window of consumer product and environmental chemical exposures.

Science Café: The Quest for Safer Products

Join us for a dynamic conversation about how policies and industry practices influence our daily exposures to toxic chemicals in consumer products.

EDCs & Reproductive Health: Effects of chemical mixtures on ovarian function

In this EDC Strategies Partnership/Young EDC Scientists Showcase (YESS) webinar, Dr. Shuo Xiao will introduce his lab research that focuses on integrating in vivo, in vitro, and in silico models to study the impacts of real-world EDC mixtures on female ovarian function, reproductive outcomes, and the molecular mechanisms involved.

Healthy Housing Best Practice Policy Brief

This policy brief builds on the learnings from Penn Center for Public Health’s October 17, 2025, Healthy Housing Symposium. It outlines evidence-informed recommendations and practices to reduce the risks and burdens of unhealthy housing and to expand access to healthy homes.

Consumer Reports Tested 41 Baby Formulas for Lead and Arsenic

Consumer Reports tested 41 types of powdered formula for a number of toxic chemicals, including arsenic, lead, BPA, acrylamide, and PFAS. We looked at established formulas , newer startups, popular store brands, and imported brands.

Health Risks from Air Pollution: Costs of Relaxing Standards

His work with other researchers on the health effects of ozone exposure has focussed on the cardiovascular effects of air pollution and on factors which modify the body’s response, with some evidence that diabetics patients are more susceptible.

PRCCEH 2025 Year in Review

Thank you for another great year at Philadelphia Regional Center for Children’s Environmental Health. We appreciate all our wonderful members, partners, and collaborators. Please enjoy this infographic of the year that was!

The Race to Research: Plastic, Microplastics, and Human Health

Megan J. Wolff, PhD, MPH, will deliver dynamic and in-depth lecture on what is known – and what is being researched – about the impacts of plastics on human health.

Evaluating the Impacts of the Environment on Pediatric Cancer Risk and Survivorship

Join this webinar to learn more about evaluating the impacts of the environment on pediatric cancer risk and survivorship from Michael Scheurer, PhD, MPH, FACE.

PFAS Health Study for Medical Professionals

Community-based primary care clinicians who work in the Delaware River Valley are invited to participate in a study to assess how the ATSDR clinical information fact sheet is used in real-world applications of PFAS clinical prevention and management for children.

Assessing childhood exposure to toxic metals during 3-D printing: Webinar Recording

Thomas Gluodenis, PhD, Professor at Lincoln University of PA discusses his PRCCEH pilot project research into potential toxic metal exposure from the 3-D printing process.

Researchers create ‘digital monument’ to site of 2019 South Philly refinery explosion

A new website details over a century of a tumultuous, industrial history at the facility, which has since been demolished by its new owners.

Child Obesity and the Environment

Attendees will learn about the relationship of the neighborhood environment with obesity among children. Multiple aspects of neighborhoods will be discussed, including features of the neighborhood physical environment and the neighborhood social environment.

Our Region’s Children Environmental Health State Profiles

The Children’s Environmental Health Network has developed fact sheets that include indicators of environmental hazards, environmental exposure, and child health and development to provide an understanding of children’s environmental health at the state level.

Beyond Plastics Webinar: Toxic Chemicals in Plastics

Learn which toxic chemicals are used in plastics that are commonly used to make children’s toys, dishes and kitchenware, clothing, food and beverage packaging, building materials, cosmetics, personal care products, and more.

EDCs & Female Reproductive Health: A growing health concern

In this EDC Strategies Partnership webinar, Dr. Anne-Simone Parent, a researcher from the MERLON project, will present the findings from their recent review paper, “Endocrine-disrupting chemicals and female reproductive health: A growing concern.”

Plastics in the built environment: Considerations related to artificial turf

Many institutions and communities are engaged in decision-making about athletic fields and playground surfacing. Building professionals, planners, and designers often need to assess competing proposals for infrastructure. With increasing awareness of the need to reduce plastic use and pollution globally, it is important to consider the role of the built environment in contributing to the total burden of plastics.

Toxic Chemicals – EDCs