- Welcome Letter: The Collaborative's Fourth Anniversary: A Review
- The Future of the National Children's Study: Science, Priorities, Politics - A Special CHE Partnership Call - Thursday, March 16
- March CHE National Partnership Call on Endocrine Disruptors and Environmental Health - March 22
- CHE Working/Discussion/Regional Group Updates
- Tools/Announcements/Resources for CHE Partners
- CHE Science News
- New CHE Partners
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1. Welcome Letter: The Collaborative's Fourth Anniversary: A Review
Dear CHE Partners and Friends:
This month marks four years since over one hundred Founding CHE Partners from across the country gathered at San Francisco Medical Society to found the Collaborative on Health and the Environment. As I write, over 2000 organizations and individuals in 47 states and 23 countries are working together to raise the level of public and professional dialogue about the impact of the environment on health. The quality of the Partnership is exceptional.
Guided by an ethic of "science and civility," the Partnership has created a safe and congenial place for dialogue on environmental health science and the exploration of shared initiatives to reduce environmental threats to public health.
Vigorous CHE Working Groups are bringing the environmental health science revolution to leading patient, health professional and community organizations. CHE has had a major impact in the field of learning and developmental disabilities and the field of fertility and pregnancy compromise. CHE has made a significant and growing contribution to dialogue on cancer and on EMF. The CHE Science Working Group is leading critically important dialogues on fundamental science questions in our field.
The CHE Partnership calls attract over one hundred Partners each month in dialogue with top national leaders in science, medicine and environmental health policy. Likewise, CHE Working Group and Regional CHE Partner calls are well attended. Regional CHE Partnerships are active in Washington state, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Alaska and New York. We are deeply aware of the interest and contribution of international Partners to the Collaborative, and are exploring ways to enhance their engagement with CHE. CHE's information Partner, Environmental Health Sciences, has made it possible for CHE Partners to keep track of news about the health issues that concern them, through EnvironmentalHealthNews.org and the daily e-letter, AboveTheFold.
CHE Etiquette has evolved for working group email listservs that emphasize that access to these listservs is a privilege. We request that CHE Partners use email sparingly, largely to share important new science findings or to comment on them, and to reply to the individual rather than the list except when the response furthers the dialogue.
CHE is based on the premise that each CHE Partner must find his or her own path to integrating the extraordinary scientific findings of the environmental health science revolution in our work and lives. CHE will never speak in the name of CHE Partners without your explicit consent. At the same time, CHE encourages working groups to develop consensus statements and initiatives, and provides Partners with opportunities to explore collaboration in pursuit of the public health goals outlined in the CHE Consensus Statement.
After four years of collaborative work, the CHE Partnership is more vigorous and powerful than we could have imagined. We are deeply grateful for your participation in the Partnership.
With best wishes,
Michael Lerner
CHE Partner
2. The Future of the National Children's Study: Science, Priorities, Politics - A Special CHE Partnership Call - Thursday, March 16
We have organized this special CHE call to engage in a timely discussion on the current status and overview of the National Children's Study (NCS), why the study is important to organizations that work with children, and information about the ongoing legislative efforts that hope to restore funding for the NCS. The moderator for this call will be Elise Miller, M.Ed., Executive Director, Institute for Children's Environmental Health.
Confirmed Speakers:
* Ted Schettler, MD, MPH, Science Director, Science and Environmental Health Network
* Phil Landrigan, MD, M.Sc., Chair, Department of Community and Preventative Medicine, Center for Children's Health and the Environment, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
* Jo Merrill, Director of Public Policy and Government Affairs, The March of Dimes
* Karen Hendricks, JD, Department of Federal Affairs, American Academy of Pediatrics
For background information and call resources, please visit: http://www.healthandenvironment.org/articles/partnership_calls/384.
In order to join this call and receive dial-in information, please RSVP to Julia Varshavsky, CHE Program Associate, at: Julia@HealthandEnvironment.org.
Please note that this call is in addition to the regular CHE National Partnership Call on the subject of endocrine disruption scheduled for Wednesday, March 22 (see below).
3. March CHE National Partnership Call on Endocrine Disruptors and Environmental Health - March 22
Please join us as we discuss the present state of endocrine disrupters and environmental health, ten years after Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Own Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival? - A Scientific Detective Story was published. This call will be moderated by Steve Heilig, MPH, Director of Public Health and Education, at the San Francisco Medical Society and the Collaborative on Health and the Environment.
Speakers will include the authors of this groundbreaking book:
* Theo Colburn, Ph.D., President, The Endocrine Disruption Exchange, Inc.
* Dianne Dumanoski, former reporter for the Boston Globe
* John Peterson Myers, Ph.D., CEO of Environmental Health Sciences
In order to join this call and receive dial-in information, please RSVP to Julia Varshavsky, CHE Program Associate, at: Julia@HealthandEnvironment.org.
4. CHE Working/Discussion/Regional Group Updates
* CHE's Working Group on Parkinson's Disease and the Environment (CHE-PD) ~ coordinated by Jackie Hunt Christensen, State Coordinator, Parkinson's Association of Minnesota, jackiehc@gmail.com
Jackie Hunt Christensen would like to let everyone know that April is "Parkinson's Awareness Month." Jackie urges CHE Partners to take advantage or informational and fundraising events being held by Parkinson's organizations in their area.
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* CHE's Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative (LDDI) Working Group ~ coordinated by Elise Miller, M.Ed., Executive Director, Institute for Children's Environmental Health, emiller@iceh.org
Because the Center for Disease Control's National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances Disease Registry just announced that they are holding a major environmental health conference in Atlanta December 4-6, the planning committee for the LDDI national conference has decided to move the meeting to late March, 2007. This meeting will still take place in Atlanta. The exact dates will be announced soon.
The National Association for the Dually Diagnosed (NADD) Conference will take place on March 16-18 in Boston, MA. LDDI participants, Ted Schettler, M.D., M.P.H., with the Science and Environmental Health Network, Michele Gagnon with the American Association on Mental Retardation and Elise Miller, M.Ed., with the Institute for Children's Environmental Health will present. This will be the first time that environmental health issues will be discussed at NADD's annual conference. LDDI's new fact sheet on emerging scientific literature on environmental exposures linked to mental health issues will be released at this conference.
The Autism Society of America is launching their new Environmental Health Project on educational outreach and advocacy, which will lay the groundwork to address needed legislative and policy reform. Overarching goals for the program are as follows:
- Raise awareness among the autism community about the broad range of environmental contributors to Autism Spectrum Disorders;
- Collaborate with LDDI participants and other groups and coalitions aimed at addressing the links between environmental exposures and neurological disorders;
- Catalyze key new initiatives with other learning and developmental disabilities groups to inform policymakers about legislation that will better protect children and those who have ASDs from harmful toxins.
For more information, visit: http://www.autism-society.org/.
The next LDDI Conference Call will be on Monday, April 10 at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time/2:00 p.m. Eastern. This call will feature Dr. Mark Opler at Columbia University, who will discuss his research on environmental exposures and mental illness.
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* Collaborative on Health and the Environment Washington (CHE-WA) ~ coordinated by Elise Miller, M.Ed., Executive Director, Institute for Children's Environmental Health, emiller@iceh.org
The third annual "Our Health, Our Environment: Making the Link" lecture series completed another successful season on March 9 at Seattle Town Hall with Dr. Jonathan Patz speaking on climate change and human health. Plans are already in the works for next winter's series, which will again be sponsored by the Seattle Biotech Legacy Foundation and organized by the Institute for Children's Environmental Health and other CHE-WA participants.
The Environmental Justice Working Group met on Thursday, March 9 in Seattle. The group decided to move forward with a regional conference on the nexus between health disparities and environmental justice, co-sponsored by CHE-WA and the Health Justice Network. The conference will be held in the Spring of 2007 and leading up to that will be a series of "listening sessions" with communities to discern how to shape the agenda for the conference. Notes from the meeting are now posted on the CHE-WA website at: http://washington.chenw.org/EJgroup.html. The next meeting will be held on April 12, in Seattle, WA.
The next CHE-WA Precautionary Principle Working Group call will be April 4. Call-in instructions and the agenda will be sent shortly. Notes from the March 1 meeting are now posted on the CHE-WA website at: http://washington.chenw.org/PPgroup.html. The Precautionary Principle Workshop: A Debrief from the First National Meeting will now be held on June 23, at Antioch University, Seattle, WA. The Precautionary Academy will also begin on June 23-25, also at Antioch.
The Research and Information Working Group will be launching its new website on April 5. This site will serve as a user-friendly resource with over 500 scientific articles on health and environmental data in Washington State.
The next CHE-WA quarterly meeting will be held on May 10 at Antioch University, Seattle, WA. Dr. Ngozi Oleru, Director, Environmental Health Services Division, Seattle-King County Public Health, will speak on land use and public health concerns and efforts to address these issues.
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* Collaborative on Health and the Environment Pennsylvania (CHE-Penn) ~ coordinated by Steffi Domike, che-penn@comcast.net
There are a number of events taking place this spring in CHE-Penn's two main areas of work: hospital greening and environmental risks for breast cancer.
Working with Health Care Without Harm (HCWH), Teresa Mendez-Quigley organized a very successful monthly roundtable series with UPMC hospitals: Mark Rossi, Ph.D., from HCWH spoke on "PVC and DEHP in Medical Devices" on March 7, to the hospital greening group at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. The April meeting will bring Barbara Sattler, Ph.D., R.N., University of Maryland School of Nursing, to Magee Women's Hospital to discuss "Engaging Nurses in Environmental Health." In May, the group will discuss "Green Chemistry and Chlorine" with Terry Collins, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, and the June meeting will feature "Healthy Food in Health Care" with Leslie Mikkelsen, MPH, RD, of the Prevention Institute.
CHE-Penn Partner, Magee Women's Hospital of Pittsburgh recently published the initial issue of the Magee Green Newsletter with updates on the activities of the hospital's Green Committee. This group, with representatives from all departments, meets every other month to set goals and report back. Since joining forces with Healthy Hospitals and the Environment last year, Magee's Green Committee moved quickly to eliminate mercury from the hospital. They submitted an application for the H2E "Mercury Free Hospital" award, which will be announced at the Seattle CleanMed Conference in April. The hospital is now moving aggressively to remove DEHP from hospital treatment materials and the new patient orientation packets will include environmental health information.
CHE-Penn is coordinating "ReducingRisk.org," an environmental health booth and team for the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in Pittsburgh. The new website on the environmental risks for breast cancer will be unveiled on race day, May 14.
Four new interns have started working with CHE-Penn: Kellie Gilchrist is working on community organizing, Naila Khalil is researching asthma rates and treatment programs in Pennsylvania, Ann Rosenthal is researching pesticide use in the state and Epiphany Nyirabahizi is researching endocrine disrupting chemicals found in the region. The research, coordinated by Conrad "Dan" Volz, Dr.PH, will be published this summer and available publicly on the CHE-Penn website at: http://www.che-penn.org/.
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* CHE's Fertility/Early Pregnancy Compromise Working Group (CHE Fertility) ~ coordinated by Alison Carlson, Alison@HealthandEnvironment.org
Many priorities have commanded CHE Fertility/Early Pregnancy Compromise Working Group participant’s time recently, among them: disseminating the Vallombrosa Workshop publications; beginning the development of a soon-to-be-announced CHE Fertility Online Library; planning and fundraising for the January 2007 UCSF – CHE Summit on Environmental Challenges to Reproductive Health and Fertility; and consulting on and assisting with the establishment of a new Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE) in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at UCSF. Participants are aiming to engage more with the environmental justice community in CHE Fertility, at the UCSF - CHE Summit and regarding environmental reproductive health (ERH) awareness building efforts in general. CHE Fertility is also hoping to make headway toward convening, in concert with UCSF PRHE, an interdisciplinary research and writing team that can effectively and impactfully quantify the societal/public health costs of fertility challenges in the United States.
The next CHE Fertility conference call will be on Wednesday, April 5. The topic will be Environmental Histories/Questionnaires in Reproductive Medicine Settings.
The Vallombrosa Consensus Statement on Environmental Contaminants and Human Fertility Compromise and its lay companion monograph Challenged Conceptions: Environmental Chemicals and Fertility have been widely disseminated and are posted (along with the Vallombrosa Workshop program, participant list and bibliography) at three sites (and linked to from many other Web pages). These documents can be accessed at: http://www.healthandenvironment.org/working_groups/fertility.
In its upcoming May/July 2006 issue, the journal Seminars in Reproductive Medicine will publish write-ups of the scientific presentations at the Vallombrosa Workshop. The issue is guest edited by CHE Fertility Participant, Linda C. Giudice, and the authors are CHE Fertility Participants and Vallombrosa science session presenters: Linda C. Giudice, MD, Ph.D., M.Sc. (UCSF); Louis J. Guillette, Ph.D. (Univ of FL); Russ Hauser, MD, Ph.D., MPH (Harvard); Jerrold Heindel, Ph.D. (NIEHS); Germaine Buck Louis, Ph.D., MS (NICHD); and Shanna H. Swan, Ph.D. (Univ of Rochester).
Congratulations to CHE Fertility Participants Kirsten Moore of the Reproductive Health Technologies Project and Joseph Isaacs of Resolve: The National Infertility Association, who organized a successful series of Capitol Hill briefings and meetings on February 16 that highlighted the Vallombrosa documents and issues. Formal sessions were held for women’s health and reproductive advocacy leaders and organizations and for Hill staff. Panelists included: Pete Myers, Ph.D., CEO & Chief Scientist, Environmental Health Sciences; Linda Giudice, MD, Ph.D., M.Sc., Professor and Chair, Ob-Gyn and Reproductive Sciences, UCSF; Jeffrey and Angela Virostko, RESOLVE members from Indiana whose fertility challenges have been linked to mercury contamination of their well water; and Alison Carlson, CHE Fertility/Early Pregnancy Compromise Working Group Coordinator.
Fifty individuals representing organizations as diverse as March of Dimes, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, American Chemical Society, Association of Reproductive Health Professionals, Choice USA, Society for Women’s Health Research, and National SIDS and Infant Death Project attended the first session to hear the panel of presentations on environmental contaminants and their impact on fertility from the perspective of the scientist, the practitioner, and the patient. The subsequent briefing for House and Senate staff from both sides of the aisle attracted representation from 14 offices, and was sponsored by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA). These morning sessions were followed by one-on-one meetings over the course of the afternoon with senior staff of the offices of Senators Harkin (D-IA), Kohl (D-WI) and Feinstein (D-CA). RHTP and Resolve have been conducting follow-up with several offices on both sides of the aisle, along with that of Senator Boxer, in regard to a policy “ask” for increased ERH research funding and Congressional action to encourage a transdiscipline group of scientists to analyze the latest research data and chart a comprehensive research agenda.
The Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences and the University of California at San Francisco recently established a new Program in Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE). For more information, visit: http://obgyn.medschool.ucsf.edu/page.cfm?id=400. Updates on the 2007 Summit and other news will be posted on the PRHE pages. For more information, contact Mary Wade, Manager, UCSF PRHE, at: wadem@obgyn.ucsf.edu or 415-476-2563.
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5. Tools/Announcements/Resources for CHE Partners
* Two Employment Opportunities in Environmental Health Posted on the CHE Website at: http://www.healthandenvironment.org/news/announce.
* Precautionary Principle Ordinance Passes in Berkeley, CA
The Berkeley City Council passed a Precautionary Principle Ordinance on March 7, becoming the second U.S. city to pass a precautionary principle ordinance, after San Francisco. The broad support from the City Council, City Manager, City Commissions, and many stakeholders was demonstrated by moving the ordinance to the consent calendar. CHE Partners, Breast Cancer Action, Breast Cancer Fund, and Commonweal were active in developing the ordinance with the City, and mobilizing public support for its passage. Contact Davis Baltz of Commonweal, at: dbaltz@igc.org to see the ordinance language, or to track implementation.
* CleanMed 2006, April 18-20, Seattle, WA
CleanMed, the nation's largest environmental conference for the health care industry will be held April 18-20 in Seattle, WA. Leaders along the entire health-care supply chain - including major hospital systems, top group purchasing organizations, health care providers, product manufacturers, food service professionals, architects and designers - will be there to discuss the latest trends in safe products, green buildings, waste prevention, healthy food service and other health-care industry efforts to protect the health of patients, workers and communities. For more information, visit: http://www.cleanmed.org/.
* 15th International Conference: Health and Environment: Global Partners for Global Solutions, April 19-20, New York, NY
The theme of this year's conference is "Living with Radiation in the Modern World: Commemorating Chernobyl, Remembering Hiroshima/Nagasaki." This conference is free, but pre-registration is required by April 15. For more information, visit: http://www.worldinfo.org/.
* 3rd Annual Nutrition and Health: State of the Science & Clinical Applications, April 30-May 3, New York, NY
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and The University of Arizona College of Medicine announce this conference, which will take place May 1-3 at the Grand Hyatt New York, New York. This conference will be preceded by a public forum, which will take place on April 30 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York, NY. For more information about these events, visit: http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/dept/cme/PH-35-06/PH-35-06.html.
* Call for Applications, Deadline April 10
The National Human Genome Research Institute/HIH/DHHS is seeking applications for possible large-scale studies of genes and environment in common disease. The deadline for application is May 10. The deadline for letters of intent is April 10. For more information, visit: http://grants2.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HG-06-008.html.
* Chicago Precautionary Academy: Practical Training for Precautionary Action, May 19-20, Chicago, IL
The Precaution Academy is intended to serve the needs of community-based activists, government officials, public health workers, and the interested public. For more information, contact Tim Montague at: tim@rachel.org or Sherri Seidmon at: sherri@sehn.org.
* CHE's Public Policy Primer
"Our Health and the Health of the Environment: How are They Connected? What can We do to Improve Both?" aims at providing its readers with some elemental principles of environmental health. Through the examples of asthma, learning disabilities and breast cancer, the primer explains what we are learning about the links between chronic illness, toxic chemicals and other environmental contaminants. The primer also gives examples of legislative and corporate policies aimed at improving our health and the health of the environment. While many CHE Partners do not engage in policy or advocacy work, many others are deeply engaged. The CHE Primer seeks not to press policy or advocacy on Partners, but to give Partners a sense of the policy and advocacy options available to those Partners who are interested. The primer is available for free by contacting Frieda Nixdorf at: Frieda@HealthandEnvironment.org. The primer may also be downloaded from the CHE website at: http://www.healthandenvironment.org/articles/doc/109.
6. CHE Science News - Many of these articles can be found on www.EnvironmentalHealthNews.org.
State urged to tackle chemicals
SignonSanDiego.com, 14 March 2006, Mike Lee
Study calls for plan to cut use of toxic substances.
Bottled water
The London Free Press, 13 March 2006, Lauren La Rose
The trend toward drinking bottled water - instead of pop or other sweet drinks - is healthy on the surface. But some see dangerous problems with our obsession with water in a bottle.
Cabinet to be pushed on regulating ban on carcinogens
The Hill Times, 13 March 2006, Simon Doyle
Rising cancer statistics have critics questioning whether the government's regulation on toxic chemicals are doing enough to prevent cancer. Critics say it's not.
The 266 days that determine your future health
Times Online, 11 March 2006, Roger Dobson
The time spent in the womb can influence whether we suffer, years later, from cancer, obesity or heart disease - and it may even affect our love life and ability to play football.
Eco-friendly care for patients, Earth
Detroit Free Press, 6 March 2006, Katie Merx
U-M, Henry Ford join trend of constructing innovative hospitals.
All natural, pure organic, 100-per-cent mayhem
Ottawa Citizen, 5 March 2006, Susan Allan
When it comes to beauty care, 'natural' means nothing and anything goes.
You are what you eat ... breathe ... scrub ... lather ... spray
Ottawa Citizen, 5 March 2006, Susan Allan
Scientists testing humans for 'pollution' have discovered long lists of manmade toxins including DDTs and PCBs.
North Americans 'contaminated' with cancer-causing poisons
Edmonton Journal, 5 March 2006, Chris Cobb
Tests find 45 of 57 carcinogens in CBC reporter's blood.
Pesticide threat to babies linked to enzyme levels
San Francisco Chronicle, 3 March 2006, Jane Kay
Researchers find them much more at risk than adults.
Toxic Inheritance
Discover Vol. 27 No. 03, March 2006, Jeff Wheelwright
Federica Perera, DNA-damage detective, suspects that if a mother breathes in pollution, her child may develop cancer.
National Children's Study supporters rally for funds
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 24 February 2006, Jeff Nesmith
Bush's '07 budget kills money for ambitious project. The full article can be found at:.
Chromium industry hid cancer risks, report says
LA Times, 24 February 2006, Marla Cone
Researches charge that businesses skewed data to weaken a proposed federal standard.
Lead paint ruling could lead to more lawsuits, experts say
Boston.com News, 23 February 2006, Eric Tucker
A jury's decision to hold three former lead paint makers liable for creating a public nuisance could spark more lawsuits nationwide and force the companies to make hugely expensive repairs, advocates, analysts and lawyers said Thursday.
The Weinberg proposal
Environmental Science and Technology Online, 22 February 2006, Paul D. Thacker
A scientific consulting firm says it aids companies in trouble, but critics say that it manufactures uncertainty and undermines science.
At a scientific gathering, U.S. policies are lamented
New York Times, 19 February 2006, Cornelia Dean
David Baltimore, the Nobel Prize-winning biologist and president of the California Institute of Technology, is used to the Bush administration misrepresenting scientific findings to support its policy aims, he told an audience of fellow researchers Saturday.
OMB Proposals aim to harmonize federal risk assessments
Environmental Science and Technology Online, 15 February 2006, Rebecca Renner
New proposals urge federal risk assessors to move away from worst-case scenarios.
7. New CHE Partners
Welcome to the new CHE Partners who have joined since the last newsletter. Please visit: http://www.healthandenvironment.org/base/partners, to see a full list of CHE Partners.
Organizational Partners:
American Academy of Environmental Medicine, Wichita, KS
Australian Institute for Functional Medicine, Carey Bay, Australia
MOMS - Making Our Milk Safe, Alameda, CA
Women's Community Cancer Project, Cambridge, MA
Individual Partners:
Michelle Albrecht de Grados, Minneapolis, MN
Joseph Barretta, Mechanical Engineering, Baltimore, MD
Mitchell Berger, MPH, Coordinator, Blackwood, NJ
Kelly Brant, MPH, Ph.D., Ann Arbor, MI
Karen Cairns, Ed.D., M.P.H., RN, Louisville, KY
Gale Carey, Ph.D., Professor, Nutritional Sciences, University of New Hampshire, Department of Animal & Nutritional Sciences, Durham, NH
Philip Corfman, Bethesda, MD
Dr. Vicky Debold, Ph.D., Oakton, VA
Kellie Gilchrist, University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA
Elina Green, MPH, Project Manager, Long Beach Alliance for Children with Asthma, Long Beach, CA
David Hales, President, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME
Sarah Hansen, Consultant to the Starry Night Fund, Tides Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
Frances Heller, M.S.W., NY Presbyterian, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
Marcia Henning, Prevention Specialist, Tacoma Pierce County Health Department, Tacoma, WA
David Heydrick, M.D., M.S., Science Advisor, Parkinson's Action Network, Washington, DC
Kamin Johnson, Ph.D., Assistant Investigator, CIIT Centers for Health Research, Research Triangle Park, NC
Farla Kaufman, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, Sacramento, CA
Marianne McCoy, Graduate Intern, Healthy Schools Network, Inc., Albany, NY
Lynda Nolan, MSN, MPH, Clinical Instructor, University of Pennsylvania, East Brunswick, NJ
Jimmy Spearow, Ph.D., Associate Research Geneticist, University of California at Davis, Department of Environmental Toxicology, Davis, CA
Louis Vismara, M.D., Policy Consultant, California Senate Office of the Pro Tem, Sacramento, CA
Yelena Wetherill, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Fellow, Cincinnati Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Center, Department of Environmental Health, Cincinnati, OH
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Thank you for taking the time to read the latest about CHE. As always, we welcome your feedback, suggestions or questions. Please direct them to Eleni Sotos, CHE National Coordinator, at: Eleni@HealthandEnvironment.org.
Best wishes,
Eleni Sotos, National Coordinator
and
Frieda Nixdorf, Administrative Specialist
