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PARTNERSHIP EVENTS

CHE Partnership call: 25 Years of the Superfund Research Program: Highlights and Hope
Thur, May 23

CHE Partnership call: Cancer: The Professional and the Personal: A Conversation with Dr. Susan Love and Susan Braun
Tues, May 28

CHE Partnership call: The Story of Camp Lejeune: Contaminated Drinking Water, Cancer Clusters, and the Struggle for Justice
Wed, May 29
Hosted by the CHE Alaska Working Group and ACAT

CHE Partnership call: Stress as an Endocrine Disruptor: Maternal Psychosocial Stress During Pregnancy and Fetal Development
Thur, June 6
Hosted by the CHE Fertility and Reproductive Health Working Group

CHE Cafe call: The Rise of the US Environmental Health Movement: A Conversatin with Kate Davies
Thur, June 20


Conference: Healthy Environments Across Generations
New York Academy of Medicine
June 7-8, 2012
Continue the conversation: Join the conference on Facebook

5/2/13: MP3 recording available: When There Is No Epidemiologist

4/16/13: MP3 recording available: Late Lessons from Early Warnings: A Retrospective Look at Learning About Precaution

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CHE Partners on why they value our work

Oregon State Regional CHE (CHE-OR)

The Collaborative on Health and the Environment - Oregon (CHE-OR) was initiated in February 2005, when nearly 100 researchers, health care practitioners, advocacy groups, funders and concerned individuals gathered at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU). The Oregon Environmental Council, in partnership with the OHSU Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine and the OHSU Prevention Research Center hosted this initial meeting. For more information about CHE-OR, please contact CHE at info@healthandenvironment.org.

CHE-OR has a listserv for the purposes of sharing new research, upcoming events and policy/regulatory initiatives related to environmental health issues in the Northwest.

This group welcomes all interested CHE Partners. If you are interested in joining this group, please sign on as a CHE Partner, and indicate your interest in your application. If you are already a CHE Partner and would like to join the listserv for this group send an email request to: cheor-subscribe@lists.healthandenvironment.org. 


Pollution in People Report

Oregonians are polluted with many hazardous industrial chemicals, according to a new study conducted by the Oregon Environmental Council (OEC) and the Oregon Collaborative for Health and the Environment (CHE-OR). The report, Pollution in People, includes these key findings:

  • Toxic chemicals from consumer products, food, and industrial pollution contaminate our bodies.
  • The toxic chemicals in our bodies are cause for concern because they can lead to health problems.
  • Every participant was contaminated with phthalates, PCBs, mercury and PFOA.

The Oregon Environmental Council and CHE-OR strongly recommend that a comprehensive safer chemicals policy be developed and adopted by our government.

 

First-Ever Look at the Annual Costs of Environmental Disease in Oregon

The Price of Pollution: Cost Estimates of Environmentally Related Disease in Oregon, a new study by the Oregon Environmental Council, finds that environmentally attributable diseases from sources such as lead, diesel, and mercury cost the state $1.57 billion annually. The estimate for children alone is $1.10 billion per year. This is the first-ever study of the cost of environmental disease for Oregon. See the report on the OEC website: http://www.oeconline.org/kidshealth/priceofpollution/index.

 

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