Events

The agenda is now available for the March 14-15 Lou Guillette Jr. Memorial Symposium, hosted by HEEDS, 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 endocrine disruption research that Lou made famous. Information and agenda here.

On Friday, April 25, 2025, Healthy Environment and Endocrine Disruptor Strategies (HEEDS) is hosting the 5th Annual Meeting of EDC-NC, its North Carolina working group on endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). Attendance is open to anyone and the cost is free. More information.

This Feb. 19, 2025 webinar features 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.

This Feb. 27 webinar is 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 will discuss the findings of this paper, and how the global plastics treaty could help lower breast cancer rates worldwide.

This March 4 webinar will discuss Mexico’s recently released scientific review document, and will be 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.

This March 26 webinar will be presented with simultaneous English/Spanish interpretation. It will discuss 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 is hosted by the Collaborative on Health and Environment (CHE).

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

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.

Part 1 of the Science Action Network webinar series, “The Future of EPA Decision-Making: Navigating Legal and Scientific Challenges.”

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.”

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.

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.

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.