Events

Previously scheduled for April 25, 2025, Healthy Environment and Endocrine Disruptor Strategies (HEEDS) has postponed its 5th Annual Meeting of EDC-NC, its North Carolina working group on endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). More information. We hope to reschedule this fall.

This April 15 webinar, Children’s Health: Assessing impacts of the exposome, features Dr. Rémy Slama of the EU’s ATHLETE research project. Dr. Slama will explore the environmental factors that are most likely to affect children’s health, and present approaches to rank the impact of these factors. The webinar is sponsored by the EDC Strategies Partnership.

This April 24 webinar features Drs. Mark Miller and Catherine Metayer, and is sponsored by CHE Alaska.

The May 2025 Joint Congress of the European Society for Pediatric Endocrinology and the European Society of Endocrinology in Copenhagen features a number of sessions on endocrine disrupting chemicals:

We toss aside 5.7 million toothpaste tubes, 570,000 cell phones, and 2.3 million pairs of sneakers every hour around the globe. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Plastics production is unsustainable, unhealthy and growing exponentially. Podcaster Nate Hagens brings experts Dr. Leo Trasande, Linda Birnbaum and Christina Dixon together to discuss the impact to our health and environment. Watch: The Great Simplification video

This March 4 webinar discussed Mexico’s recently released scientific review document, and was presented with simultaneous English/Spanish interpretation. The evidence draws on recent literature to make the case that there are unacceptable health risks from GM corn and glyphosate for Mexican people who consume large quantities of minimally processed corn in food products such as tortillas. Sponsored by the Collaborative for Health and Environment (CHE) and U.S. Right to Know.

This Feb. 19, 2025 webinar featured Dr. Hans Peter Arp discussing TFA, a degradation product of many refrigerants and a widespread contaminant in the environment. Shorter-chain PFAS have been assumed to be less hazardous than longer-chain PFAS, but widespread exposures have not been taken into account in making this assessment. Sponsored by the EDC Strategies Partnership.

This Dec. 3, 2024 webinar featured Dr. Kyla Taylor of NIEHS who discussed the results of a National Toxicology Program monograph review that concluded there is “moderate confidence” in the scientific evidence that showed an association between higher levels of fluoride exposure and lower IQ in children.

Part 1 of the Science Action Network webinar series, “The Future of EPA Decision-Making: Navigating Legal and Scientific Challenges.”

Listen to the recording of this webinar, part 2 of the Science Action Network webinar series, “The Future of EPA Decision-Making: Navigating the Legal and Scientific Challenges.”

Recordings of the talks from the Oct. 28 Swiss Symposium on Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals are now available. Speakers included Drs. Pete Myers and Jerry Heindel of Environmental Health Sciences. Sponsored by the Food Packaging Forum and ETH Zurich.

This course focuses on the chemical, biological, and societal challenges of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and new opportunities for moving forward. ECHO is a two-week intensive bootcamp-style career development course for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and professionals in the field. It is held annually at Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

Pete Myers, founder and chief scientist of Environmental Health Sciences (publisher of EHN.org), and Tyrone Hayes, a biologist and biology professor at University of California, Berkeley, spoke at the Collaborative for Health & Environment’s 20 year anniversary about how far the environmental health field has come — and how far it has to go. Watch the full conversation above.