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Do You Know Your ABC's? This call took place on Monday, July 13 at 11:00 AM Pacific / 2:00 PM Eastern and was a discussion on the basics of environmental reproductive health science. It has been a while and CHE-Fertility has grown. This call was intended to help refresh continuing participants about the basic science behind our concerns as well as inform those who are new to the information.

On this call presenters discussed what we know about:

• how rates of infertility and other reproductive health problems have changed as industrial chemical production has proliferated over the last 70 years;

• what sound scientific evidence is increasingly revealing about links between environmental contaminants and these health problems;

• where the limitations are in our health tracking and exposure data;

• how policies can change to reflect what we know, even in the face of inevitable scientific uncertainty; and

• what health professional leaders can do.

Featured presenters:

• Ted Schettler, MD, MPH, Science Director, Science and Environmental Health Network and CHE

• Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH, Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco; and Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco

• Rivka Gordon, PA-C, MHS, Director, Strategic Initiatives, Association of Reproductive Health Professionals
  
  

The moderator of this call was Julia Varshavsky, CHE-Fertility Coordinator.