The PEHSUs are a national network of experts in health issues that arise from environmental exposures from preconception through adolescence. This new project will develop “PEHSU champions” on [...]
Research shows that exposure to environmental hazards such as, pesticides, traffic air pollution, solvents in paints and gasoline, and tobacco smoke can increase the risk of getting childhood [...]
Dr. Stephanie Holm is interviewed by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in a podcast where she discusses children’s health risks from wildfire smoke exposure and [...]
Studies show amalgam is absorbed into the body and biotransformed into other forms of mercury, including methylmercury as well as the neurotoxicity of low levels of mercury. The U.S Food and Drug [...]
WSPEHSU’s ObGyn core consultant, Marya Zlatnik, was an author of this statement from the International Society for Children’s Health and the Environment that appeared in Environmental Health [...]
Mark Miller, WSPEHSU co-director, co-authored with Phil Brown, Stephanie Clark, Emily Zimmerman, and Maria Valenti, a chapter in the new text Environmental Health Literacy, edited by Symma Finn [...]
WSPEHSU Co-director, Mark Miller, consulted, along with colleagues Catherine Metayer and Todd Whitehead at the Center for Integrative Research on Childhood Leukemia and the Environment (CIRCLE), [...]
In this video, Dr. Jessica Weiland, a toxicology fellow at the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry and practicing physician, explains the growing need for including an environmental [...]
Dr. Timur Durrani, recently wrote to Congress to oppose the recent increase in the price of the drug, CaEDTA, used to treat lead poisoned children. Click "Read More" to read the letter in full.
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Marya Zlatnik, MD, MMS to the UCSF PEHSU team. She will serve as the UCSF PEHSU Associate Director for Maternal Fetal Health and the Environment Program.