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CHE Partnership Call - Growing Danger: Pesticides, Other Agricultural Exposures, and Cancer
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11/11/08: Comments sought - EU consultation on risk assessment for carcinogenic and mutagenic substances


11/7/08: Dr. Theo Colborn receives 2008 Goteborg Award for Sustainable Development
 

11/7/08: New LDDI fact sheet - Mental Health and the Environment
 

10/27/08: New download - MP3 Recording of "Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging" CHE Partnership Call

10/23/08: NEW REPORT - Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging

 

10/08: CHE Partner Elise Miller given EPA Children's Environmental Health Champion Award

10/08: CHE Partner Dr. Richard Clapp wins ISEE Research Integrity Award
 

10/20/08: New Parkinson's Disease documents, including a fact sheet and the new Consensus Statement on Parkinson's Disease and the Environment

10/20/08: New President's Cancer Panel fact sheet - Agricultural Exposures and Cancer

10/6/08: NEW SCIENCE REVIEW on Hormone Disruptors and Women's Health, in addition to a lay summary primer [PDF]

10/2/08: NEW - CHE Cancer Consensus Statement [PDF]


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CHE Asthma & Chemicals Call, Part 2: Diesel Exhaust - Science and Action

Listen to the audio recording of this call (MP3 Format)
Background information and call resources

This teleconference was a discussion on the overview of the behind diesel exhaust and human health, occupational settings that are heavily impacted, as well as an outline of a community model (the Ditching Dirty Diesel Collaborative).

This call was moderated by Christine Cordero, Community Health Program Coordinator for Center for Environmental Health, and Co-coordinator of the CHE Asthma Working Group, and included featured presentations from:

  • Patrick Kinney, ScD, Associate Professor of Clinical Public Health, Joseph A. Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University 
  • Jennifer Flattery, MPH, Research Scientist, California Department of Health Services, Occupational Health Branch
  • Swati Prakash, MS, Steering Committee Member, Ditching Dirty Diesel Collaborative, and Program Director, Community Strategies for Sustainability and Justice Program, Pacific Institute
  • Bruce Hill, PhD, Senior Scientist, Clean Air Task Force, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Wafaa Aborashed, President, Davis West Neighborhood Association, San
    Leandro, CA

 

 

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