The AAP provides networks and resources in children’s environmental health, including the handbook Pediatric Environmental Health2nd Edition.
Topics of air quality, chemical hazards in school and workplace settings, and tobacco control are covered in depth on their website with recent statistics available. Materials available (several also offered in Spanish) include: Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools Action Kit, Protecting Yourself from Air Pollution, Working Safely With Chemicals, How to Read a Material Safety Data Sheet, as well as tobacco material targeted to youth and adults.
AEOC includes 55 clinics across the United States and Canada that specialize in occupational and environmental health issues. Provides referrals to clinics for medical advice and care, conducts educational activities, and maintains a lending library.
BIRC offers over 25 years of insight experience, and leadership in the development and communication of least-toxic, environmentally sound, integrated pest management(IPM) methods and policies of urban and agricultural applications.
Beginning in 1904, Breathe California has worked to reduce the impact of lung disease through prevention, education, advocacy and patient services.
The California Department of Public Health, Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch, provides free educational materials for providers to give to patients and families, and free informative guidelines and fact sheets for providers and staff.
The California Department of Public Health developed a searchable cosmetics database that allows professionals and consumers to access information about specific products, companies, or chemical ingredients, and learn about how chemical exposure can affect health. The information is based on a California cosmetics law requiring companies to report products containing ingredients known or suspected to cause cancer or reproductive harm.
The NCEH homepage houses a comprehensive index of specific environmental hazards, and includes information related to emergency management, health studies, and laboratory investigations on environmental health issues.
CHAMACOS is a longitudinal birth cohort study that examines environmental exposures and health effects of children born in the agricultural Salinas Valley.
CIRCLE’s scientists collaborate in new ways and use the latest methods to search for the causes of leukemia in children.
Center for Disease Control’s National Asthma Control Program
CHAPS investigates the connections between childhood air pollution exposure and several immune system illnesses that each involve major inflammatory responses in the body: allergies, asthma, type II diabetes, and obesity.
The Children’s Environmental Health Network is a national project dedicated to pediatric environmental health. The Network’s mission is to promote a healthy environment and to protect the fetus and the child from environmental hazards.
The Center has developed downloadable health education materials (available in English and Spanish) that cover topics such as pesticides, indoor air, stress, and BPA.
In this video, Bruce Lanphear describes how we failed to prevent the pandemic of lead poisoning and its associated costs to human health.
This report describes the features of statewide initiatives 2016-2018 in 24 states and the District of Columbia testing for lead in school drinking water, and the prevalence of elevated lead concentrations in tap water in public schools.
Proposes goals for reducing lead exposures and calls for putting children first, finding and eliminating lead before, not after, it harms children. Cleaning up these large-group settings offers great potential to prevent lead risks for significant numbers of children.
Envirofacts contains data from five EPA systems that are used to assist the Agency in monitoring and overseeing compliance with federal regulations. The general public can use this source to obtain information about facilities in their community. The five systems represented are:
- Aerometric Information Retrieval System Facility Subsystem (which contains air pollution data for about 150,000 regulated facilities),
- Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Information System (Superfund data on hazardous waste sites),
- Permit Compliance System (water discharge permit information for over 75,000 facilities),
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Information System (data used to track handler permit or closure status for over 450,000 facilities and transporters), and
- Toxic Release Inventory System (data on releases of over 600 toxic chemicals by over 33,000 reporting facilities).
Online queries and mapping tools are also available through this site.
Environmental Health Perspectives is a peer reviewed journal on environmental health available through PubMed and is free online.
This site contains a searchable database that provides safety ratings for cosmetics, as well as shopping guides for purchasing safer and more environmentally-friendly consumer products.
Guidance from the Environmental Protection Agency on mold prevention and remediation.
This fact sheet describes the EPA’s 3Ts toolkit which includes modules to assist facilities in developing a drinking water testing program.
EPA’s Pacific Southwest Office has a number of programs to address children’s environmental health issues including pesticides, asthma triggers, lead, and mercury. The site contains contact information for EPA Regional Coordinators on children’s environmental health and specific exposures of concern.
EPA’s Indoor Air Quality also contains helpful school-related resources on mold and indoor air quality.
EPA’s AirNow Website contains local ambient air quality information and ozone maps.
The EPA provides Chemical Fact Sheets and technical summary documents. Some of these fact sheets are available through the Internet.
From the Public Health Institute, this report overviews of extreme weather science, health impacts of extreme weather and health equity. It discusses what local health departments can do to include extreme weather and health equity into assessment and surveillance, intersectoral collaboration, community engagement and education, extreme weather and health communications, preparedness and more.
This website describes the work of UC Berkeley researchers on the health effects of air pollution on children with asthma in the Central Valley. The site links to newsletters and scientific publications detailing their research findings.
GBPSR is a regional affiliate of PSR that focuses on environment and public health issues, specifically in the areas of reproductive and developmental health and the environment. The 140-page GBPSR report In Harm’s Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development can be downloaded free via the GBPSR website, in addition to information on Health Care Without Harm, Generations at Risk, and No Room to Breathe publications, resources, and campaigns.
Seeks to leverage growing scientific knowledge on health, learning, and behavior to explain the early roots of lifelong impairment. The Center is also committed to translating science to develop innovative programs and science-based policies that promote healthy development and reduce preventable disparities in well-being. The site features publications, videos, and reports on the science of early childhood, interventions, global child development, and foundations of lifelong health.
Health Care Without Harm is an international coalition with 425 member organizations in 52 countries representing hospitals, health care professionals, environmental advocates, organizations of health- impacted individuals, religious organizations, student groups, and labor unions. It focuses on encouraging health care institutions to stop using products made with PVC plastic and mercury that release dioxin, mercury and other toxic substances into the environment when they are burned as waste.
The Healthy Schools Network is a nonprofit organization that partners with the EPA and CDC to promote children’s environmental health at school. The site contains literature about toxins in schools, as well as interactive guides and resources for children.
HSN is a nationally recognized, state-based advocate for the protection of children’s environmental health in schools.
Dr. Blanc is a professor of medicine and holds the endowed chair in Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. His column on household hazards appears in Psychology Today.
The UCSF Program Reproductive Health and the Environment was founded in 2007 by Dr. Linda C. Giudice, chair of OB/GYN at UCSF, in order to meet the need for continued environmental reproductive health research and for the translation of science into preventive policy action, enhanced health care and heightened public awareness.
A resource for kids, parents, and teachers to find fun and educational materials related to health, science, and the environment. Created by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
A webinar from the Alliance of Nurses for a Healthy Environment, provides nurses with communication tools, such as message framing and tested language, to cultivate an effective voice for building institutional leadership and support for climate solutions in the US.
Resources for clinicians including patient education materials, clinical guidelines, research guidelines, and other tools that address a variety of primary care issues. Bilingual patient information is also available on pesticide safety practices.
The Minnesota Department of Health has created a web site to improve access to information about children’s environmental health.
The National Center for Environmental Health is part of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Their site has information and education resources on a broad range of topics, including asthma, birth defects, radiation, sanitation, and lead in blood.
The National Environmental Education Foundation works to promote daily actions for helping people protect and enjoy the environment. In their section on Health and the Environment they have several tools for pediatricians including a tool for taking an environmental history.
NIEHS has a site for information of public interest concerning human productive health. Included is access to scientific assessments of reproductive health risks associated with human exposures to naturally occurring and man-made chemicals.
The National Pesticide Information Center is affiliated with the EPA and Oregon State University to provide information on pesticide-related topics including environmental fate, regulations, and health effects. They operate a bilingual telephone hotline and develop publications and websites with pesticide risk information.
A detailed history of the origins and progress of the environmental justice movement, including milestones such as President Clinton’s Executive Order on Environmental Justice.
The Organization of Teratology and Information Services maintains pregnancy and environmental hot lines throughout the country to answer questions regarding prenatal exposures. Centers and hot lines can be found on their website.
Pediatric Environmental Health History Forms are designed for the primary health care provider to capture most of the common environmental exposures to children. Developed by the National Environmental Education Foundation.
The PEHSU’s provide education and consultation for health professionals, public health professionals and others about children’s environmental health. AOEC coordinates the activities for all of the PEHSUs. Primary funding for the PEHSUs comes from the ATSDR and EPA.
There are neighborhoods in the Bay Area that have higher rates of childhood lead poisoning than Flint, Michigan. Learn about this ongoing public-health crisis from environment and health reporters Angela Johnston and Marissa Ortega-Welch who a year sifting data, conducting interviews, reviewing public records, and going into the field. The Western State’s PEHSU’s Dr. Timur Durrani consulted on this series.
PANNA advocates the adoption of ecologically sound practices as an alternative to pesticide use. With other groups, it promotes sustainable agriculture, food security, and social justice. In addition to action alerts, connections to other organizations, fact sheets, and reports, the PESTIS database is available to search online for information on specific pesticides and alternatives.
22 minute video from the National Pesticide Information Center (NPIC), a collaboration between Oregon State University and the United States Environmental Protection Agency. The video focuses on understanding the risks related to disinfectant use, and provides steps for how to protect yourself when applying disinfecting wipes and sprays. It is a useful tool for training new staff in child care.
This is a computer-based (Windows) model that is also available through the EPA to help interpret the information that you find. The model permits screening-level analysis of risk-related impacts of toxic chemical releases and transfers in the U.S.
A child’s website dedicated to engaging children in preserving the habitats of insects and connecting to the natural world. Her Living Greenways Campaign provides concrete projects that promote habitat conservation. A great example of how even children can be involved in improving our environment.
SBRP offers funding support for research on hazardous waste sites and their health effects as well as networking opportunities for researchers and partnering organizations. The NIEHS and the U.S. EPA website for the programs posts research summaries and grant opportunities. You can join a listserve to learn about current research by sending your e-mail address to inhof@niehs.nih.gov. Research Briefs can be found here.
CEHN is an organization with a strong basis in pediatrics and environmental health science. Their website reviews important new research relevant to pediatric environmental health. Each summary contains the abstract, link to the full text, and an analysis of the policy implications.
The Southwest Center for Pediatric Environmental Health has created four 5-minute animated videos, aimed at education about, and prevention of, lead poisoning:
The Story of Lead in English and The Story of Lead in Spanish
The Mysterious Case of Lead in English and The Mysterious Case of Lead in Spanish.
Theory-based and evidence-informed resources created by educators, parents, and researchers aimed at preventing middle and high school students’ use of tobacco and nicotine.
This page uses interactive media including videos, podcasts, interviews, etc. to describe environmental contributions and risk factors for asthma. It also details disparities in asthma prevalence and EPA approaches to reducing population-level risk.
Helps consumers, businesses, and institutional buyers identify cleaning and other products that perform well, are cost-effective, and are safer for the environment. They maintain a categorized list of all products that have a DfE label under their Safer Products Labeling Program.
Research on autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders.
This UCSF affiliated community based program produces many factsheets and resources for both families and childcare providers. Of particular importance for environmental health are two training curricula for education professionals: Childcare Lead Poisoning Prevention and Integrated Pest Management.
Research, clinical, and policy interventions to highlight connections between reproductive and prenatal health and the environment.
The site contains information on the latest research demonstrating the effects of ozone air pollution on plants. There is also information specific to the San Joaquin Valley’s air quality and pollution-related games and information for school children.