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: Changes at NIH: What do they mean for environmental health?by Sarah Howard on April 3, 2025 at 3:34 pm
This May 8 webinar features Dr. Linda Birnbaum, who will discuss the implications of the Trump administration’s changes for environmental health, and the effects on individual research efforts. Sponsored by the EDC Strategies Partnership.
- Webinar: Childhood cancer and the environment: prevention opportunitiesby Sarah Howard on March 11, 2025 at 3:35 pm
This April 24 webinar features Drs. Mark Miller and Catherine Metayer, and is sponsored by CHE Alaska.
- EDCs at the European endocrinology society meetingby Sarah Howard on March 2, 2025 at 9:03 pm
The May 10-13, 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:
- Recordings of Lou Guillette Jr. Memorial Symposium availableby Sarah Howard on March 1, 2025 at 6:27 pm
The full recording as well as a shorter excerpt are now available to view. This March 2025 symposium featured talks from Lou’s students and colleagues, and honored his legacy and research. Sponsored by Healthy Environment and Endocrine Disruptor Strategies (HEEDS).
- Webinar recording: Plastics, chemicals and cancerby Sarah Howard on February 11, 2025 at 4:37 pm
This Feb. 27 webinar was sponsored by CHE-Alaska. Researchers at the Silent Spring Institute recently identified more than 900 chemicals that could increase breast cancer risk, and found that 414 of these chemicals are used in plastics. They discussed the findings of this paper, and how the global plastics treaty could help lower breast cancer rates worldwide.
- Webinar recording: Impacts of fracking in North and South America (in English and Spanish)by Sarah Howard on February 11, 2025 at 4:04 pm
This March 26 webinar was presented with simultaneous English/Spanish interpretation. It discussed the 9th edition of the Compendium of Scientific, Medical, and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks and Harms of Fracking and Associated Gas and Oil Infrastructure, published in 2023 by Concerned Health Professionals of New York and Physicians for Social Responsibility. The webinar was hosted by the Collaborative on Health and Environment (CHE).
- Webinar recording: Children’s health and the exposomeby Sarah Howard on February 11, 2025 at 2:02 pm
Watch the recording of this April 15 webinar, Children’s Health: Assessing impacts of the exposome, which featured Dr. Rémy Slama of the EU’s ATHLETE research project. Dr. Slama explored the environmental factors most likely to affect children’s health, and presented approaches to rank the impact of these factors. The webinar was sponsored by the EDC Strategies Partnership.
- WATCH: Plastics: a health and environmental emergencyby EHN Curators on February 11, 2025 at 12:46 pm
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
- Webinar recording: the Massachusetts PFAS and Your Health studyby Sarah Howard on January 28, 2025 at 3:33 pm
This Feb. 5 science cafe was sponsored by the Silent Spring Institute, and featured Laurel Schaider, PhD, and Emily Heckel, MPH discussing findings from their research.
- Webinar recording: Product data for public health: Clearya case studiesby Sarah Howard on January 13, 2025 at 2:55 pm
A variety of tools have been created for collecting consumer product data and making it available for research. This Jan. 30, 2025 webinar explored one such product. Sponsored by the Collaborative for Health and Environment (CHE).
- Webinar recording: GMO corn and glyphosate: New evidence from Mexican scientists (in English and Spanish)by Sarah Howard on December 17, 2024 at 4:28 pm
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.
- Webinar recording: Ultrashort-chain PFAS: the global threat of trifluoroacetic acidby Sarah Howard on December 16, 2024 at 4:41 pm
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.
- 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, 2024 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.
- Endocrine-disrupting chemicals: hazards and opportunities (ECHO) courseby Sarah Howard on September 1, 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 annually at Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
- 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.