• Pathways to a Climate and Health Career

    College Green, University of Pennsylvania Woodland Walk, Philadelphia, PA

    Thinking about a health career? Passionate about addressing climate change? At this panel, hear lightning talks from 10 Penn faculty and staff about their varied routes into careers that blend a focus on health and climate, from medicine to nursing to veterinary science. Audience Q&A to follow. Refreshments will be served! Open to all.

  • National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week

    Online

    NLPPW is a call to bring together individuals, organizations, industry, and Tribal, state and local governments to reduce childhood exposure to lead by increasing lead poisoning prevention awareness.

  • Engaging Communities in Research: From Manganese in Marietta to the Train Derailment in East Palestine, Ohio

    Online

    Dr Haynes will walk us through her journey as postdoctoral fellow working with residents of Marietta, Ohio to address their concerns about a ferromanganese refinery to her latest community partnerships in East Palestine, Ohio and many in between. Although each study has a different exposure of concern, each one has been conducted with and for the community with the same guiding principles of community-engaged research.

  • Drinking Water from Private Wells: Risks, Barriers, and Environmental Challenges

    Online

    This Grand Rounds series will provide healthcare providers with state-of-the-science content on current topics in pediatric environmental health. Such information will fill in the knowledge gaps of practitioners, enabling them to effectively counsel families whose children face possible health issues due to environmental chemicals, toxins, and other insults.

  • The Overturning of Chevron Deference: Impacts on Environmental Health Decision Making

    The June 28, 2024, Supreme Court decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo overturning Chevron deference marks a pivotal shift that could reshape environmental regulation as we know it. The longstanding Chevron decision established the principle that federal courts must defer to an agency’s reasonable interpretation of any statute deemed to be ambiguous. With the […]

  • The Brain in Focus: Environmental Exposures, MRI, and Adolescent Brain Health

    Online

    Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai will share the latest research on how the environment affects health. Through this webinar series, we aim to translate our science to empower families and communities to understand the science and make the lifestyle changes that matter most.

  • Microbiomes of Pregnancy and Infancy: Implications for Child Health Outcomes

    Online

    ECHO cohort sites have collected longitudinal microbiome samples and data spanning pregnancy through adolescence from a geographically, socioeconomically, and ethnically diverse US sample. The power of the ECHO cohort lies in its assessment of exposures in real time with the tracking of health outcomes as they occur throughout the life course. With specimen and data […]

  • Toxic Chemicals and Children Presentation by Leonardo Trasande, MD, MPP

    Children's Hospital of Phiadelphia 3401 Civic Center Blvd., 2nd Floor, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Leonardo Trasande, MD, MPP is an internationally renowned leader in children’s environmental health. This seminar has an in-person and virtual option.