HEEDS wishes each and every one of you a happy, healthy and EDC-free new year. We know it is a struggle to keep up with what is going in in the EDC world… science, technology, regulation, policy, advocacy, funding, conferences, etc. So as we start this new year and decade, HEEDS is rededicating our efforts to be the one-stop-shop for everything EDC related.
We cannot do it without all of you. We need to know what is going on in all areas of the EDC field so we can put that information on HEEDS for all to see. If there are new advances in EDC science, tell us or write a blog about it for HEEDS. Is there a meeting or conference, big or small, with sessions on EDCs? Let us know. Have a job opening? We can help. If something interesting going on at the FDA, EPA, NIEHS, NIH, EFSA, the European Union or any funding or government agency across the globe, let us know.
Helping get the word out about EDC activities is an important goal for HEEDS. But HEEDS is more than a website, it is an active program dedicated to helping move the EDC field forward in order to improve human health. In this regard, EEDS provides a weekly update on research publications in the EDC field, a monthly newsletter, and a directory of EDC researchers. HEEDS works to develop local EDC-focused groups across the US and the world: we can help you develop a group in your area. HEEDS also holds an annual brainstorming workshop to help focus the EDC field. HEEDS also participates in a monthly webinar series with the Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE) and EDC-Free Europe.
A major focus of HEEDS is to improve mentoring of trainees in the EDC field. HEEDS has a mentoring advisory group to help plan activities that will help trainees with their knowledge of the EDC field, including grant writing, publication, and communication skills as well as expanding trainee roles in scientific meetings.
To help spread the word about EDCs, HEEDS works with scientists to develop EDC focused sessions at scientific meetings.
HEEDS is constantly looking for ways to help the EDC field. there is something you think we could/should do, please let us know.
Cheers,
Jerry and Sarah