HEEDS helps to organize two sets of webinars on endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). Recordings are available:
- EDC Strategies Partnership Webinar Series: We collaborate with the Collaborative for Health and Environment (CHE), Europe’s Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), and the Commonweal Biomonitoring Resource Center to conduct these monthly webinars.
- Young EDC Scientists Showcase (YESS) Webinar Series: We collaborate with CHE to conduct these webinars featuring early career EDC scientists.
Upcoming Events on Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals
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- Lou Guillette Jr. Memorial Symposiumby Sarah Howard on December 16, 2024 at 3:52 pm
On March 14-15, 2025, HEEDS is hosting the Lou Guillette Jr. Memorial Symposium on endocrine disrupting science at the University of Florida. It will celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Guillette, gather together his trainees and colleagues, and focus on the research topics that Lou made famous. Information here.
- Endocrine-disrupting chemicals: hazards and opportunities (ECHO) courseby Sarah Howard on December 16, 2024 at 3:50 pm
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 at Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
- Webinar: EDC exposure and gonadal function: consequences and interventionsby Sarah Howard on December 16, 2024 at 3:36 pm
This two part webinar series is sponsored by the Endocrine Society’s Special Interest Group (SIG) on endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). The first webinar is scheduled for Jan. 30, 2025, and the second for Feb. 13.
- Webinar: Gamechanger: California sues ExxonMobil over plastic recycling liesby Sarah Howard on December 16, 2024 at 3:26 pm
This Jan. 22, 2025 webinar, sponsored by Beyond Plastics, features California Attorney General Rob Bonta discussing the lawsuit against ExxonMobil, the largest producer of single-use plastic polymers, for its role in deceiving the public about plastic recycling and chemical recycling.
- Webinar recording: Fluoride, neurodevelopment, and cognition: a National Toxicology Program monographby Sarah Howard on November 19, 2024 at 5:00 pm
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.
- Webinar recording: The overturning of Chevron deference: Impacts on environmental health decision makingby Sarah Howard on November 12, 2024 at 1:42 pm
Part 1 of the Science Action Network webinar series, “The Future of EPA Decision-Making: Navigating Legal and Scientific Challenges.”
- Webinar recording: Behind the scenes at EPA: What’s gone wrong and what does it mean for our work?by Sarah Howard on November 11, 2024 at 1:37 pm
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.”
- Swiss symposium on endocrine disrupting chemicals: Recordings availableby Sarah Howard on September 20, 2024 at 6:34 pm
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.
- WATCH: Pete Myers and Tyrone Hayes reflect on tremendous progress in the environmental health fieldby EHN Editors on January 26, 2023 at 11:23 am
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.