Health Care Without Harm Mini Grant RFP Round 8
Health Care Without Harm is announcing round eight of the Nurse’s Workgroup Mini-Grant Program. The Mini-Grant program is designed to support innovative efforts to expand and deepen the involvement of nurses in environmental health issues, to promote advocacy activities and to encourage those initiatives that showcase collaborative efforts between nurses and environmental organizations. Members of the HCWH Nurses Workgroup as well as members of other HCWH Workgroups, which seeks to work substantially with nurses on environmental health issues; The HCWH Mini-Grant program welcomes all applications for funding from members of the HCWH Nurses Workgroup, participants of any RN-No-Harm Workshops or HCWH mini-grant funded workshops; American Nurses Association’s Constituent Member Associations; Specialty Nursing Organizations; Schools of Nursing; Labor organization that represent nurses; Luminaries and Beacons of the Luminary Project; Schools of Nursing; and Nurse participants of any Clean Med meeting.
More information: Announcement, Mini-Grant Guidelines, Mini-Grant Template
Upcoming event: CleanMed 2008 Nurses Pre-Conference, May 20
Join nurses from around the country for the CleanMed 2008 Pre-Conference: Nursing Practice and Environmental Health Activism, May 20 from 9:00am until 12:00pm to learn ways to incorporate environmental health activities into your nursing practice. View the flyer here.
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Upcoming event: Center for American Nurses' LEAD Summit 2008: June 23 - 24; Washington, D.C.
Since the Institute of Medicine released its seminal report, "To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System," there have been a number of initiatives focused on improving the safety of the health care we deliver. LEAD Summit 2008 features nationally known nurse leaders and emerging science that is shaping current approaches to hospital quality improvement efforts.
The educational opportunities presented at LEAD Summit 2008 will offer a wealth of resources to improve your workplace while enhancing patient care delivery. Timely plenary and poster sessions will focus on key topics of staffing, workflow design, personal/social factors, physical environment, and organizational/cultural factors.
Register at: http://www.leadsummit2008.org/.
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Free Webinar: Using the EPA's Healthy Schools Environment Assessmemt Tool, May 21
Learn how to download, install, customize, and use EPA's free Healthy School Environments Assessment Tool (HealthySEAT). HealthySEAT is designed to help states, school districts and tribes create customized self-assessment checklists and track all school environmental health and safety conditions.
HealthySEAT will help you get ahead of your environmental issues and prevent problems before they arise.
Learn more and register here.
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Position announcement: CleanMed Coordinator, Health Care Without Harm; Arlington, VA
The CleanMed Coordinator will be responsible for the general oversight and management of Health Care Without Harm’s (HCWH) CleanMed annual conference. One primary area of responsibility will be to strategically build the many content-related aspects of the conference. She/he will also coordinate with Practice Greenhealth on their awards program and other programs that are jointly delivered at the CleanMed conference. While this is primarily a US based program, there is developing interest in coordinating CleanMed events in other regions of the world where HCWH has a presence. There may be some international coordination aspects of the job in the future. This is a full time position, with a preference for working in the Arlington, Virginia office. Regrant to like-minded organization will also be considered.
All interested candidates should submit an application via email to Anna Gilmore Hall at HCWH agilmorehall@hcwh.org before May 16, 2008.
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Position announcement: Medical Waste Work Group Leader, Health Care Without Harm; Arlington, VA/Berkeley, CA
Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) is seeking a Work Group Leader for its Medical Waste Work Group. The work group consists of leaders from the HCWH campaign and from allied organizations who are actively working to
implement safer alternatives (other than incineration) for the treatment of medical waste. The Work Group Leader will catalyze and coordinate HCWH's campaign for the treatment of medical waste without causing harm to
human health and the environment and will report to the Executive Directors of HCWH. This is a full time position, although candidates whose time would be "shared" with a like-minded organization will be considered. Preferred location: near the Berkeley or Arlington offices of HCWH.
E-mail resume to agilmorehall@hcwh.org before May 19, 2008.
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Position announcement: Executive Director, Health in Harmony
Health in Harmony seeks an Executive Director with experience in fundraising and managing a non-profit organization and preferably a background in environmental and/or human health programs. This position will require a flexible 20 hours per week, working from a home office in the United States with occasional travel.
Health in Harmony (HIH) is a U.S.-based, 501(c)(3) organization that supports Project ASRI, an innovative program in West Kalimantan, Indonesia that integrates care for human and environmental health by partnering with local communities to provide high-quality, affordable healthcare and protect the threatened rainforest. This past year, ASRI opened a clinic offering medical and dental care to the people of that region. ASRI enables local villagers to pay for their healthcare by working on a range of environmental conservation projects aimed at preserving the local rainforest. HIH's primary goal for the next five years is to raise funds to build a teaching
hospital. This facility will not only provide medical care but will also train doctors and healthcare workers to replicate this model in other places, protecting threatened environments globally while caring for the medical needs of impoverished people.
Click here for more information.
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Green hospitals expand mission to "do no harm"
April 23: NBC's Simran Sethi reports on how some hospitals are reducing energy usage, building with sustainable materials, and incorporating green for a holistic healing environment.
View the video here.
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Poison Ice: Toxic chemicals seepingi into the Arctic food web
(From Salon.com) As the sea ice melts, a toxic stew of mercury and synthetic chemicals is seeping into the Arctic food web, harming the area's people. We may be next. Learn more.
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What's really organic about cosmetics?
An article published in the San Francisco Chronicle discusses a lawsuit in whcih cosmetics companies are being accused of false advertising. Read it here.
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Ontario to ban pesticides on lawns, spurred by health professionals
(From The Ontario Star) Ontario's Liberal government will introduce legislation tomorrow to implement a provincewide ban on the cosmetic use of pesticides, keeping one of their key election promises from last year. Premier Dalton McGuinty promised the pesticide ban during last fall's election campaign after intensive lobbying from environmental activists and health professionals. McGuinty and Environment Minister John Gerretsen will visit a private home in Toronto tomorrow – Earth Day – to announce the ban on the cosmetic use of pesticides on lawns. Gerretsen was reluctant to reveal any details today, but said members of the public who visited the ministry's website overwhelmingly supported the ban.
Read the full article here.
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Potentially toxic bug repellent DEET turns up in tests of Chicago's drinking water
(April 21, Chicago Sun-Times) In this age of West Nile virus, Lyme disease and other insect-borne health threats, millions of Americans have made slathering and spritzing themselves with the powerful repellent DEET part of their summer routine.
The insect repellent is used by 100 million Americans each year, in total quantities exceeding the use of some agricultural pesticides.
But after we shower and wash our clothes, DEET winds up in rivers and lakes.
And now, testing done for the Chicago Sun-Times has found, it's in our drinking water.
The concentration detected in a sampling of Chicago tap water was low -- 8.3 parts per trillion. Health experts said the level found in the Sun-Times testing shouldn't pose a health hazard.
Still, said Mohamed Abou-Dania, a professor at Duke University who has done extensive research on the neurological effects of DEET, "This raises a red flag. [When] you have so many people using it, the risk is there."
Read the full article here.
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