Toxic Chemicals – EDCs

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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.

Understanding and reducing your exposure to potential harmful chemicals in everyday products Assortment of personal care produce bottles.

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. 

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.

Heat, Harvest, and Health: Unraveling the Impact of Environmental Exposures on Farmworkers and Their Families Daniel Smith

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.

Characterizing indoor air phthalates and volatile organic compounds in NY/NJ nail salons: Webinar recording Canvas nail salon

Characterizing indoor air phthalates and volatile organic compounds in NY/NJ nail salons: Webinar recording

Webinar features Dr. Inkyu Han, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Temple University. He discusses his community-engaged research on toxic air pollutants in New York and New Jersey nail salons, his research methodology and results.

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.

Exploring the Placental Origins of Health and Disease: From environmental drivers to solutions Two pregnant women talking.

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. 

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.

Kentucky 2023 Children’s Environmental Health Summit

Kentucky 2023 Children’s Environmental Health Summit

The 2023 Children’s Environmental Health Summit is a event used to increase awareness and knowledge related to children and the environment. This year’s summit is completely virtual GoToWebinar and will consist of four speakers with these topics: Childhood Exposure to Second-Hand Smoke and Radon, Ambient Air Pollution, Wildfire Smoke and Children’s Health, Surveillance for Ticks and Tick-Borne Pathogens and PFAS and how it affects children in Kentucky The summit will last approximately half a day.

The Not-So-‘Micro’ Plastic Problem: A Conversation with Matt Simon Assortment of personal care produce bottles.

The Not-So-‘Micro’ Plastic Problem: A Conversation with Matt Simon

For September’s CHE-Alaska webinar, we will be joined by science journalist Matt Simon, author of “A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies.” In the book, Simon reveals an entirely new dimension to the plastic dilemma – how microplastics break down into small enough pieces to enter lungs, be absorbed by crops, and infiltrate aquatic animals’ muscle tissues.

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