Events

This year’s Gordon Research Conference on endocrine disruptors will be held June 28-July 3, with the accompanying Gordon Research Seminar on June 27-28, in Newry, Maine. These conferences bring together graduate students, post-docs, professors, and researchers who work on endocrine disrupting chemicals, and are an invaluable source of discussion. Apply to attend and submit your abstract by January 20th if you would like to be considered for one of these short talks using this link.

The University of Arizona is hosting the National PFAS Conference, in person in Tucson on June 8-10, 2026.

In this Feb. 12 webinar, Dr. Shuo Xiao introduced his lab research that focuses on integrating in vivo, in vitro, and in silico models to study the impacts of real-world mixtures of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) on female ovarian function, reproductive outcomes, and the molecular mechanisms involved. Dr. Xiao is the 2025 winner of the Lou Guillette, Jr Outstanding Young Investigator Award from Healthy Environment and Endocrine Disruptor Strategies (HEEDS), a program of Environmental Health Sciences. Sponsored by the EDC Strategies Partnership and Young EDC Scientists Showcase (YESS).

This Jan. 22, 2026 webinar featured Susan Kaplan, author of A Healthy Union: How States Can Lead on Environmental Health, published by Island Press. Sponsored by the Collaborative for Health and Environment (CHE).

This Dec. 11, 2025 webinar featured Dr. Nicholas Chartres, Dr. Lisa Bero, Wendy Wagner, and Dr. Kristi Pullen Fedinick, who explored the influence of financial conflicts of interest on science and regulatory decision-making, the laws that minimize harm, and efforts by the current Administration to enable corporate capture of EPA and dismantle environmental regulation altogether. Hosted by UCSF’s Program on Reproductive Health and Environment and Science Action Network in collaboration with the Union of Concerned Scientists and CHE.

This Dec. 10 conversation-style webinar covered the link between environmental contaminants and an increased risk of Parkinson’s disease, and opportunities for prevention. Sponsored by the Collaborative for Health and Environment and The New School at Commonweal.

This Oct. 14, 2025 webinar described the ToxicDocs dataset and website that contains millions of pages of industry documents about lead, asbestos, silica, PCBs, and other toxic substances. This collection includes internal memoranda, emails, slides, board minutes, unpublished scientific studies, and other documents that became publicly available through toxic tort litigation. Sponsored by the Collaborative for Health and Environment (CHE).

This Nov. 20, 2025 webinar was sponsored by the EDC Strategies Partnership.

This Nov. 12, 2025 webinar was designed to be useful for those involved in infrastructure planning within municipalities, colleges and universities, and other institutions.

In this Oct. 1 webinar sponsored by the EDC Strategies Partnership, Dr. Christina Rudén explained why assessing the risk of individual chemicals is not sufficient to protect health. Over 250 scientists have urged the European Commission to address mixtures to address these risks in the forthcoming revision of the European Union’s Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH) regulation. Registration/information here.

This June 24 webinar featured Dr. Jennifer Orme-Zavaleta discussing what the new administrations changes mean for EPA’s Office of Research and Development (ORD).

In this June 17, 2025 webinar, speakers from organizations leading breast cancer prevention work shared how they incorporate community input to bridge the gap between scientists and community members, and how this approach fosters more effective and equitable prevention strategies. Sponsored by CHE.

In this July 8, 2025 webinar, Drs. Kevin Elliott and Laura Vandenberg discussed the range of ways in which scientists can frame and present information on research findings. For example, framing an EDC-related health outcome as a disease or disability can help to focus public attention on hazards of toxic chemicals and promote action to protect human health. At the same time, this framing can be used to stigmatize and harm individuals and communities. The speakers shared a range of strategies available to researchers to communicate responsibly and effectively. Sponsored by the Collaborative for Health and Environment (CHE).

This May 29, 2025 webinar featured UCSF’s Center to End Corporate Harm, launched earlier this year to bring together scientists to more systematically study the mechanisms and strategies corporations use to delay and prevent regulation of their health harming products. Sponsored by the Collaborative for Health and Environment (CHE) and UCSF’s Program on Reproductive Health and Environment (PRHE).

This May 8 webinar featured Dr. Linda Birnbaum, who discussed the implications of the Trump administration’s changes for environmental health and the NIH. Sponsored by the EDC Strategies Partnership.

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

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).

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.

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).

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.