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Webinar: Community Recommendations for Reducing Racial Disparities in
Infant Mortality: an Application of Concept Mapping
Presenter: Laurin Kasehagen, MA, PhD, Senior MCH Epidemiologist/CDC
Assignee to CityMatCH
Date: April 30, 2010
Time: 10 am -12 pm CST
To join via web: Click here


"Halogenated Flame Retardants: Does the Benefit Justify the Risk?"
Date: Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Time: 3 pm
Where: University of Illinois at Chicago. School of Public Health Auditorium, First Floor
1603 W. Taylor Street
Presenter:  Linda Birnbaum, Ph.D., D.A.B.T., A.T.S.
Director of National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences


Environmental Health News:

Welcome to CREHM

Example right-aligned imageConsortium for Reproductive Environmental Health in Minority Communities (CREHM) is a group of environmental scientists, health professionals, community based organizations, and concerned citizens committed to reducing the risk of reproductive environmental health threats and improving quality of life in Chicago.

What's New

Chicago Consortium for Reproductive Environmental Health in Minority Communities (CREHM) receives grant for facilitation of Urban Medicine curriculum and organizational development!. Through funding granted by The Chicago Community Trust (www.cct.org), CREHM in collaboration with the UIC College of Medicine will facilitate and provide public health and reproductive environmental health training and education for select students in the UIC Urban Medicine program. This track has been designed to produce physicians uniquely suited to facilitate, organize, and implement health promotion in the communities of their patients in urban, mostly under served areas on the Westside of Chicago. CREHM will also facilitate the placement of medical students in service to the community in cooperation with one of our community-based stakeholder organizations. CREHM's participation in this curriculum is an opportunity to increase public health and environmental health capacity among future health leaders in our community.


Congress Targets Broken Federal Toxics Law - Read more about the Safe Chemicals Act of 2010 pdf document 


CNN: Taking In More Chemicals Than You Know

CNN, Dr. Sanjay Gupta
Published April 13, 2010
CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks with EWG President Ken Cook about how exposed all of us are toxic chemicals. The two men spent the day talking with residents of Mossville, Louisiana. One of the most contaminated communities in the United States.
Click here to watch: http://www.enviroblog.org/2010/04/cnns-sanjay-gupta-md-interviews-ewg-pr...


Antibacterials Q&A: Dr. Sarah Janssen on the Hazards of Hormone Disrupting Hand Cleaners