RSS Events
  • Webinar: Endocrine disruptors and hormone levels during pregnancy
    Can endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) influence a mother’s hormone levels during pregnancy? In this May 7 webinar, Brad Ryva and Dr. Diana Pacyga will discuss their recent study investigating this possibility.
  • Workshop: Silent Spring 2.0: Adverse impacts of neonicotinoid pesticides on human and wildlife health
    This May 21 in person and virtual workshop is hosted by The ChicAgo Center for Health and EnvironmenT (CACHET) and co-sponsored by Healthy Environment and Endocrine Disruptor Strategies (HEEDS). It features six scientists discussing the health effects of neonicotinoid pesticides and targets Illinois policymakers, since Illinois is a leading user of these pesticides.
  • Webinar: Plastics and your health
    Beyond Plastics is sponsoring this May 2 webinar featuring Dr. Philip Landrigan.
  • Webinar: Reducing PFAS in products: progress and challenges
    This May 8 webinar is sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). It will cover EPA’s PFAS Strategic Roadmap and a new online tool for EPA’s Recommendations of Specifications, Standards, and Ecolabels for Federal Purchasing that highlights how standards and ecolabels address PFAS. Speakers from EPA, EPA grantees, and Toxic-Free Future will discuss the […]
  • NIH workshop: Complementary and integrative interventions to prevent and mitigate the effects of EDCs
    The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health is partnering with the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to hold a 2-day workshop on June 10-11 to stimulate discussion about and interest in researching ways to reduce and mitigate the effects of endocrine-disrupting chemicals in people who have been exposed.
  • National PFAS conference
    The annual National PFAS Conference will be held June 10-12, 2024 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This conference is designed to exchange information, provide support to PFAS-affected communities, and facilitate engagement across diverse sectors involved with PFAS to accelerate the protection of health and the environment. Posters are due March 1.

See a full listing of events on EDCs here.

Webinars on Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals

HEEDS Webinars

HEEDS helps to organize two sets of webinars on endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs):

Young EDC Scientists Showcase (YESS) Webinar Series

We collaborate with the Collaborative for Health and Environment (CHE) to conduct these webinars featuring early career EDC scientists. Recordings are available here.

EDC Strategies Partnership Webinar Series

We collaborate with CHE, Europe’s Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), and the Commonweal Biomonitoring Resource Center to conduct these webinars. 

Recordings are available here.

For additional webinars on EDCs, see: