Events

This May 29 webinar features 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).

In this July 8 webinar, Drs. Kevin Elliott and Laura Vandenberg will discuss 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 will share a range of strategies available to researchers to communicate responsibly and effectively. Sponsored by the Collaborative for Health and Environment (CHE).

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.

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 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.

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).

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.

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.

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, 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.

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.