Upcoming event: "The male predicament" Lecture/webcast on endocrine disruptors: June 23; Baltimore, MD
You are invited to attend or watch via live webcast this lecture by Theo Colborn, PhD, co-author of Our Stolen Future.
She will be speaking next Monday, June 23rd from 4 – 5:30 pm at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
Our Stolen Future is a book about the health and environmental threats created by man-made chemical contaminants that interfere with hormones in humans and wildlife. Endocrine disrupting chemicals alter development of the fetus in the womb by interfering with the natural hormonal signals directing fetal growth. Their impacts, sometimes not detectable until years or decades after exposure, include reduced disease resistance, diminished fertility and compromised intelligence and behavior. Our Stolen Future tells the story of how endocrine disruption was discovered, how it works what it means, and how families can protect themselves and their communities, all in clear, simple language intended for a general audience.
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Save the date: 2008 National Healthy Homes Conference: Baltimore; MD, September 15 - 17
Register now for the 2008 National Healthy Homes Conference, sponsored by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Come join members of the health and housing community, federal agencies, community advocates, private industry, and other interested parties from across the country to chart the future course and national agenda for healthy housing in America!
The Building a Framework for Healthy Housing conference will provide a forum to exchange information on public/private sector activities, policies, regulations, scientific research, outreach and state-of-the-art mitigation techniques. Using lessons learned from our national lead poisoning prevention strategy, the conference will focus on these key themes designed to link health and housing in order to build the framework necessary to make homes safe, healthy, and efficient:
Learn more and register here.
Top of page Position announcement: Executive Director, Women's Voices for the Earth, Montana
Women's Voices for the Earth, a growing, progressive national organization that engages women to advocate for the right to live in a healthy environment, seeks a dynamic executive director.
WVE seeks a dynamic leader to work with our high-energy, committed staff and board as executive director to continue our progress in expanding WVE's capabilities and building our national influence at the nexus of the environmental health, women's movement, and reproductive justice fields. Our ideal candidate is a skilled, energetic visionary with significant fundraising, program, communications, and management experience who can take on the multiple tasks required to lead a small non-profit organization that is expanding its national impact. The Executive Director is a
full-time exempt position, currently based in Missoula, Montana, with oversight responsibility for the organization. Learn more and apply
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Deadline extended for California minority faculty scholarship
We are pleased to announce that the deadline to submit applications for the California Endowment-AACN Minority Nurse Faculty Scholarship for the 2008-2009 academic year has been extended to June 30, 2008. This program provides $18,000 in financial support to students pursuing a doctoral or master's degree in nursing as well as student mentoring and leadership development activities. Though students receiving support may attend classes at ANY school of nursing, students must return to their home state of California after graduation to assume a teaching role at a California institution. The schools where scholarship recipients will be attending classes are required to offer a match of some portion of the student's tuition.
Applications are now available online at http://www.aacn.nche.edu/CAEawardApp.pdf.
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Poisoned for Pennies - new book by Frank Ackerman
Island Press has just published Frank Ackerman’s new book, Poisoned for Pennies: The Economics of Toxics and Precaution. It presents a critique of cost-benefit analysis, describes an alternative, precautionary approach to policy, and applies these ideas to case studies of major environmental policy problems, many of them involving toxic chemicals.
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Prenatal exposure to wood fuel smoke and low birth weight: Article in Environmental Health Perspectives
A recent article published in Environmental Health Perspectives explores the possible connection between maternal exposure to wood smoke and impaired fetal growth.
View the article here.
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Article by Dr. Barbara Sattler on Komen MD website: "Our Bodies and the Legacy of 'Better Living Through Chemistry'"
Read Dr. Sattler's article on the Komen Maryland website to learn about the toxic chemicals accumulating in our bodies and what actions are being taken to help protect us from further harmful chemical exposures.
Click here for the article.
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Free booklet: "Understanding and responding to climate change"
The National Academies of Science have released the 2008 edition of "Understanding and Responding to Climate Change," a free booklet designed to give the public a comprehensive and easy-to-read analysis of findings and recommendations from their reports on climate change.
Click here to view the booklet.
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Environmental history forms available in pediatric primary care textbook
The National Environmental Education Foundation's Pediatric Environmental History Forms are featured in the fourth edition of Pediatric Primary Care by Catherine E. Burns, Ardys M. Dunn, Margaret A. Brady, Nancy Barber Starr, and Catherine G. Blosser published in March 2008 by Elsevier. This text book is used in pediatric nurse practitioner, family nurse practitioner, medical, and physician assistant educational institutions. It is the foundation text used by the majority of pediatric nurse practitioner programs as it is used for the certification exam at the end of the program by the Pediatric Nurse Certification Board. It is also used by experienced clinicians who want an up-to-date pediatric primary care resource with easy access to information.
The text emphasizes prevention as well as management and presents guidelines on assessing children from infancy through adolescence with the goal of providing a comprehensive resource for health care students, as well as a reference for clinicians.
NEEF's Pediatric Environmental History Screening and Supplemental Forms are also available here.
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