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Washington StateThe Collaborative on Health and the Environment – Washington

A Partnership Network for Environmental Health
Established and Coordinated by the Institute for Children's Environmental Health
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Upcoming Meetings

Children's Environmental Health Working Group Meeting Thursday, February 9th

9:30 - 11:30 a.m. in Seattle

The meeting will take place at Public Health Seattle & King County, 401 Fifth Ave, Room 119/120
Get directions.

We will have a speaker AND continuing planning for 2012. Our speaker will be Sandra Smith, MPH, PhD, presenting "Health Literacy: Beyond Better Information." Dr. Smith is director of the Center for Health Literacy Promotion and clinical instructor at the University of Washington School of Public Health. She is author of the award-winning health education series Beginnings Pregnancy Guide and Beginnings Parents Guide; she is also co-author of the Beginnings Guides Life Skills Development Curriculum and three medical text book chapters on health literacy. She earned a master's degree in public health (health education) at the University of Washington and a doctorate in interdisciplinary studies (public policy) at Union Institute & University in Cincinnati. She is a member of the Worldwide Universities Network.

An RSVP is requested by Tuesday February 7th. Feel free to invite others.

Calling in by phone? Let us know ahead of time. RSVP to Julia Singer or call 206-263-3082.

We thank you for noting that all CHE-WA events are fragrance-free.

Notes from the CEH Working Group meetings are on the CEH Working Group page.

Meeting Calendar

Browse or search CHE-Washington's online calendar for upcoming meetings.

Online Calendar of Events

CHE-Washington maintains a comprehensive environmental health calendar of event of interest to residents of Washington state. Please use the link here or click the "Calendar" button in the navigation bar above to view events in the calendar.

www.chenw.org/cgi-bin/searchevents.cgi

Materials from Past Meetings

Meeting File Size
February 1, 2011 presentation: Healthy Communications by Sian Wu, Resource Media
May 26, 2010, meeting: The World Health Organization's Just-released Cell Phone Study: Case for Precaution? (PDF file) 121 KB
June 2, 2009 presentation: What does dust have to do with it? by Dr. Elaine Faustman 1.3 MB
July 15, 2008, call recording: Human Fertility and the Environment: Looking at Links in both Women and Men (MP3 file) 21 MB
July 15, 2008, call handouts: Environment and Fertility: Male-mediated Factors, presentation by Shanna H. Swan, PhD (PDF file) 362 KB
July 15, 2008, call handouts: Environmental Contaminants and Female Reproductive Capacity, presentation by Linda C. Giudice, MD, PhD, MSc (PDF file) 432 MB
March 2008 presentation: The National Children's Study is Coming to King County by Dr. Elaine Faustman 590 KB
December 2007 meeting notes 31 KB
December 2007 presentation: Climate Change and Health: Rising to the challenge in Washington by Catherine Karr, MD, PhD 1.4 MB
December 2007 handout: Local Solutions to Global Warming from Mo McBroom 88 KB
December 2007 handout: Washington Climate Action from Mo McBroom 53 KB
December 2007 handout: Local Farms Healthy Kids from Mo McBroom 141 KB
December 2007 handout: Evergreen Cities from Mo McBroom 102 KB
May 2007 notes

71 KB
May 2007 presentation: Community Air Monitoring for Chlorpyrifos in the Northern Yakima Valley, 2006 by Carol Dansereau 7.7 MB
January 2007 notes 50 KB
January 2007 presentation: The Pacific Northwest and Climate Change by Ann Marie Kimball MD, MPH 1.75 MB
January 2007 presentation: Facing the Climate Change Challenge by Richard H. Gammon 4.3 MB
October 2006 notes 57 KB
October 2006 presentation: Farm to Cafeteria Projects in WA by Tim Crosby 660 KB
October 2006 presentation: Linking Agriculture to Health by Erin MacDougall 719 KB
July 2006 notes 67 KB
May 2006 notes 60 KB
January 2006 notes 62 KB
October 2005 notes 43 KB
October 2005 slides 1378 KB
October 2005 research handout 9 KB
October 2005 handout of related articles 21 KB
May 2005 notes 37 KB
May 2005 slides 940 KB
February 2005 44 KB
December 2004 32 KB
September 2004 24 KB
June 2004 24 KB
March 2004 24 KB
January 2004 16 KB
September 2003 20 KB
July 2003 20 KB
April 2003 16 KB
March 2003 20 KB

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