Sponsor: Collaborative on Health and the Environment Fertility and Reproductive Health Working Group
This call will highlight the recently released Women's Voices for the Earth report, Disinfectants Overkill. Featured speakers include Erin Switalski, executive director of Women's Voices for the Earth; Alexandra Gorman Scranton, MS, director of Science and research for Women's Voices for the Earth; Patricia Hunt, PhD, Meyer Distinguished Professor at the School of Molecular Biosciences, Washington State University; and Ann Blake, PhD, Environmental & Public Health Consulting.
Price: free
Contact: Julia Varshavsky, julia@healthandenvironment.org
Sponsor: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
The NIEHS Superfund Research Program is holding a series of meetings with a broad range of stakeholders to receive suggestions for a five-year strategic plan. This plan will establish priorities for the multidisciplinary research and training called for in CERCLA on the health effects of Superfund chemicals and methods to assess their risks to health, methods to clean up or contain Superfund waste, and technologies to detect and trace their movement in the environment.
Price: free
Contact: Mary Gant, 301-496-2919
Sponsor: US Environmental Protection Agency
The EPA hosts its annual Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools (IAQ TfS) National Symposium to bring together past, present and future leaders in protecting and improving IAQ in our nation's schools. The IAQ TfS Program is a nationwide initiative to help school officials assess, resolve, and prevent IAQ problems, and to reduce exposure to asthma triggers in school facilities. While school officials, administrators, facilities and operations personnel, teachers, parents, and students traditionally attend, the Symposium is open to anyone with an interest in IAQ in schools.
Price: unknown
Contact: 703-842-5596
Sponsor: Reverse Brain Drain/National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), the Commission for Higher Education (CHE), Perkin Elmer, Bangkok Equipment and Chemical, Gibthai, Bio-Active
This conference is a step towards enhancement of research and research training in Thailand in the area of environmental health along with the sensor technological innovation for on-site use in monitoring of environmental pollution. TH-RBD-CCFH will cover three main themes: health effects, case studies, and management & risk minimization. It is designed to be inclusive and thus it will consider also other toxic metals of local concerns which may include lead and mercury. All interested individuals are encouraged to participate. Thai-to-English translation will also be made available to enhance information exchange on local environmental health issues.
Price: $150
Contact: thrbd.ccfh@gmail.com
Sponsor: City and County of San Francisco's Environment Department, the Main Library Stegner Environmental Center, California Endowment, International Commission for Electromagnetic Safety, Environmental Health Trust, Teens Turning Green, California Brain Tumor Association, Healthy 880 Communities - San Leandro, San Leandro High School Social Justice Academy, and Environmental Working Group
Devra L. Davis, PhD, MPH, will be the featured speaker. A new video, "Cell Phones: Just Like Cigarettes?" will be premiered at this workshop. Teens Turning Green, a national environmental health organization, will moderate a high-participation event that will involve students from San Leandro High School's Social Justice Academy and from other bay area schools. The agenda is posted on the website. Password for the website is "teensBsafe".
Price: free, but electronic RSVPs are advised as space is limited
Sponsor: Collaborative on Health and the Environment
Known for her book High Tech Trash, an exposé of the electronic waste industry, Elizabeth Grossman's new book, Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry, reveals the dangers and the extent of the chemicals that are found in everyday products such as BPA, perfluorinated compounds, brominated flame retardants and phthalates, and offers up hope for a future without them. With Chasing Molecules, Grossman reveals that we can do better; that we can make materials that we have come to rely on with chemicals that have been tested to be safe and are in fact "benign by design." In a radical departure from how synthetic chemistry has been practiced, Grossman suggests that green chemistry should be used to create new materials for use in everything from sippy cups to carpets.
Price: free
Contact: CHE, info@healthandenvironment.org
Sponsor: Collaborative on Health and the Environment
This call will involve a discussion of the complex array of chemical contributors to thyroid function. Presenters will cover chemicals linked to thyroid function, upstream biological impacts to thyroid hormones during pregnancy that can lead to a variety of health problems later in life, and the policy implications given all the complexity. In particular, speakers will address perchlorate, which inhibits the uptake of iodide into the thyroid gland, an essential part of the process of making thyroid hormone. Small changes in maternal thyroid hormone are associated with significant decreases in IQ.
Price: free
Contact: CHE, 360-331-7904 or info@healthandenvironment.org
Sponsor: Alliance for Healthy Homes in partnership with the Healthy Homes Collaborative
This class will help prepare organizations to become accredited trainers under EPA's new Renovation, Repair and Painting (RRP) rule. By April 2010, this rule will require virtually every contractor working in pre-1978 homes to complete an 8-hour course in lead safe work practices or face a Federal fine of up to $37,500 a day. The Train-the-Trainer course does not certify participants to be accredited trainers under the rule, but rather gives participants background on the requirements of EPA's rule and instruction on how to most effectively deliver the new lead safe work practices course for renovators.
Price: unknown
Contact: Vikki Paulus, vikki@healthyhomescollaborative.org
Sponsor: Collaborative on Health and the Environment
We will hear from Birnbaum on the priorities and challenges facing the NIEHS in the coming years as well as discuss other pressing environmental health concerns.
Price: free
Contact: CHE, info@healthandenvironment.org
Sponsor: American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
The speaker will be Renee Dufault, MAT, of United Tribes Technical College, Bismarck, North Dakota.
Price: free
