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Children's Health Presentations
2012 Symposium on Children's Environmental Health Research
Speakers from Children's Environmental Health Research Centers and Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units spoke at this symposium at UC Berkeley. Topics included 1) children's exposure to chemicals, 2) how the environment changes the development of the brain and nervous system in children, and 3) childhood leukemia. Visit the videos on YouTube.
2011 A Children's Environmental Health Forum: "Stepping It Up Together"
This conference in Seattle was designed to encourage and increase new opportunities for cross collaboration and to engage with partners who share the mission of protecting children's health. More information is available on the conference webpage.
2010 Children First: Promoting Ecological Health for the Whole Child
This groundbreaking one-day symposium highlighted a range of interacting factors that influence child health and development, including nutrition, education, socio-economic status, exposures to toxic chemicals, and access to preventive health care. Presentation recordings and materials are on the conference webpage.
2009 Northwest Children's Environmental Health Forum
CHE-WA's working group on Children's Environmental Health was thrilled to host more than 300 participants at its Northwest Children's Environmental Health Forum October 1-2, 2009, in Tukwila, Washington. Videos and presentation materials are available on the conference webpage.
Seattle Lecture Series, 2004 -2008
For five years, ICEH organized an annual lecture series in Seattle. This page archives presentations, handouts and other materials from those lectures.
2008 Lectures – Seeking Solutions: Connecting Economics with Health and Environment
1. Principles of Ecological Economics: Guidance for a Sustainable Society with Robert Costanza, PhD. Wednesday, January 23, 2008
2. The Future of the Puget Sound Region: Applying Ecological Economics to Our Area with David Batker, MS, and Katherine Davies, DPhil. Wednesday, February 13, 2008
3. The Future of Energy: Applying Ecological Economics to Global Issues with Cutler Cleveland, PhD. Wednesday, March 12, 2008
4. Economics for the 21st Century: Creating a Collective Vision for a Sustainable Future with Joshua Farley, PhD, and David Korten, PhD. Wednesday, April 30, 2008
 2007 Lectures: Seeking Solutions
1. Green Chemistry with Terry Collins, PhD, MSc. Wednesday, January 24, 2007
2. Nanotech & Precaution with Joel Tickner, ScD Wednesday, February 7, 2007
3. Biofuels with David Kircher, Peter Moulton and Tim Stearns. Wednesday, March 21, 2007
4. Sustainable Systems with John Robinson, PhD. Wednesday, April 18, 2007
 2006 Lecture Series
1. Urban Lifestyles and the Built Environment: Healthier by Design with Lawrence Frank, PhD. January 25, 2006
2. Plastic Promises: Better Living or Bodily Harm? with Frederick vom Saal, PhD. February 15, 2006
3. Climate Change: Is Our Health at Stake? with Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH. March 9, 2006
 2005 Lectures
1. Enduring Legacies: How Pollutants Shape Brain Development with Bernard Weiss, PhD. January 19, 2005
2. Herbicides and Human Health: Are Frogs Our Canaries in the Coal Mine? with Tyrone Hayes, PhD. February 8, 2005
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PowerPoint slides (4.4 MB)
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There Is No Denying This: Defusing the Confusion about Atrazine by Tyrone Hayes
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Atrazine-Induced Hermaphroditism at 0.1 PPB in American Frogs (Rana pipiens): Laboratory and Field Evidence by Tyrone Hayes, Kelly Haston, Mable Tsui, Anhthu Hoang, Cathryn Haeffele, and Aaron Vonk
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Feminization of Male Frogs in the Wild by Tyrone Hayes, Kelly Haston, Mable Tsui, Anhthu Hoang, Cathryn Haeffele, and Aaron Vonk
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Hermaphroditic, Demasculinized Frogs After Exposure to the Herbicide atrazine at Low Ecologically Relevant Doses by Tyrone B. Hayes, Atif Collins, Melissa Lee, Magdelena Mendoza, Nigel Noriega, A. Ali Stuart, and Aaron Vonk
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Background article on Dr. Tyrone Hayes' work in Sierra magazine: Profile: Hopping Mad – A Frog Biologist Battles an Agrichemical Giant
3. Air Pollution and Children: Not Breathing Easy with Catherine Karr, MD, PhD. March 16, 2005
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PowerPoint slides (4.8 MB)li> by Brian McKenna about Ruth Etzel (476 KB, used with the permission of the Ecology Center)
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How Environmental Exposures Influence the Development and Exacerbation of Asthma by Ruth Etzel (352 KB)
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Air Pollution Linked to Chromosome Damage in Fetuses by Seth Borenstein, Knight Ridder Newspapers
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In Utero DNA Damage from Environmental Pollution Is Associated with Somatic Gene Mutation in Newborns by Frederica Perera, Karl Hemminki, Wieslaw Jedrychowski, Robin Whyatt, Ulka Campbell, Yanzhi Hsu, Regina Santella, Richard Albertini, and James P. O'Neill (36 KB)
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Ambient Air Pollution: Health Hazards to Children by the Committee on Environmental Health (368 KB)
2004 Lectures
1. Midstream in a Revolution: Linking Environment and Health with John Peterson Myers, PhD. January 27, 2004
2. Body Burden: The Pollution Gets Personal with Jane Houlihan, MS. February 17, 2004
2. Breast and other Hormonal Cancers and the Environment: the Case for Environmental Oncology with Devra Davis, PhD, MPH. March 10, 2004
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