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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- Webinar: Fluoride, neurodevelopment, and cognition: a National Toxicology Program monographby Sarah Howard on November 19, 2024 at 5:00 pm
This Dec. 3 webinar features Dr. Kyla Taylor of NIEHS who will discuss 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: Behind the scenes at EPAby Sarah Howard on November 19, 2024 at 3:56 pm
This Dec. 9 webinar, Behind the scenes at EPA: what’s gone wrong and what does it mean for our work? is part 2 of a series on the future of EPA decision-making. Sponsored by the Collaborative for Health and Environment (CHE), Earthjustice, and UCSF’s Earth Center. Register here.
- Endocrine-disrupting chemicals: hazards and opportunities (ECHO) courseby Sarah Howard on October 31, 2024 at 2:50 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.
- Lou Guillette Jr. Memorial Symposiumby Sarah Howard on October 22, 2024 at 1:30 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.
- 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.