Protecting Our Children from Environmental Hazards

Please join the Drexel Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Program for its first MCH Speaker Series Presentation of 2025! Feel free to share this with trainees and colleagues who may also be interested. All are welcome.

Learning Objectives:

1. List the reasons why children are more vulnerable to exposure to hazardous agents considering their developing bodies and stage of development.
2. List several adverse effects of exposure to lead in infants and children.
3. Explain several actions to prevent or reduce lead exposure to children.
4. Explain the harm from increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and identify three greenhouse gases.
5. Identify adverse health effects from climate change seen in children.

Speaker: Carla Campbell, MD,  MS, FAAP

Pediatrician and Affiliate Faculty

Department of Environmental and Occupational Health

Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University