Environmental Health Impacts of Artificial Playing Fields and Rubber Playground Surfaces
The presentation will include the myths and realities regarding the benefits and risks of these products, whether used indoors or outdoors.
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Rising Temperatures, Rising Risks: Safeguarding Children’s Health
OnlineDuring this webinar attendees will learn the physiological, environmental, and social factors that increase children's vulnerability to heat-related illnesses.
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Youth & Families Child Health Champion Training
OnlineThese free trainings are designed to help advocates across all sectors—public health, early childhood, education, environmental justice, caregiving, and youth—build power, tell our stories, and take meaningful action together.
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Reaching a Boiling Point: State and Local Efforts To Protect Children from Extreme Heat
OnlineJoin the Center for American Progress for a discussion on how to protect the United States' youngest learners from extreme heat in the face of efforts to roll back climate progress.
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Breathing Easier: Protecting Children With Asthma From Wildfire Smoke
OnlineThis webinar will explore the intersection of wildfire smoke exposure and childhood asthma. Expert speakers, drawn from EPA’s National Environmental Leadership Award in Asthma Management winners and wildfire smoke grant program recipients, will share best practices, community-engagement strategies, and innovative approaches.
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Microplastics
OnlineThe ubiquity of microplastics in the environment is an emerging concern. These small plastics (<5 mm) along with associated contaminants may be consumed by organisms including humans and have been found in every environment on Earth. There are numerous data gaps about the potential effects of microplastics on human health and ecological systems.
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The Exposome in Children’s Health: Environment, Development and Disease
OnlineDr. Konstantinos C. Makris is a full professor of environmental health and supervises the Water and Health laboratory at the Cyprus International Institute for Environmental and Public Health.
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Leveraging Data to Drive Effective Heat Protection Policies
OnlineThis event will surface actionable steps to leverage data to shape effective heat policies that reduce heat-related adverse health outcomes.
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Back to School Night: Raising Resilient Kids In An Age of Disasters
OnlineJoin us for an interactive webinar about why and how to address the emotional impacts of collective challenges like climate change, and how to heal through collective action.
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ECHO Symposium: Translating Science to Action
OnlineThe ECHO Translating Science to Action Symposium brings together researchers, policymakers, health professionals, and advocates to translate child health research into impactful solutions.
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Urban Wildfires in Los Angeles: Health and Environmental Impacts and Community-Led Solutions
OnlineThis webinar will ground the issue of urban wildfires in LA within the broader fight for environmental justice, public health, and resilience.
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Pick Up PA – Protect our waterways
When it comes to keeping Pennsylvania clean, and it’s up to all of us to do our part. By working together everyone in Pennsylvania can live, work, and play in a clean and green community. One little way is to register an event for Pick Up Pennsylvania.