Please join OEHHA and the Children’s Environmental Health Center for a virtual symposium series exploring the effects of heat on children and during pregnancy. This highly interactive four-session symposium will cover physiologic considerations for children and pregnancy, strategies to combat health effects in children and during pregnancy, and important considerations for these populations in the development of heat health warning systems.
Children's Environmental Health Symposia
The Children’s Environmental Health Center sponsors symposia on key emerging issues relevant to state scientists and policy makers in the field of children’s environmental health. These symposia help keep our state scientists at the forefront of science and policy and provide a forum for interaction between state scientists and researchers on cutting edge issues related to children’s environmental health.
Children's Environmental Health Symposia
Agenda, Times, Speakers, and Links to Videos.
2018 Children's Environmental Health Symposium Presentations exploring "Air Pollution and Lifecourse Neurological Impacts.” The symposium will be held October 2, 2018 and will examine the potential factors underlying children's unique vulnerabilities to the cumulative impacts of pollution and socioeconomic and community stressors.
2018 Children's Environmental Health Symposium exploring "Air Pollution and Lifecourse Neurological Impacts.” The symposium will be held October 2, 2018 and will examine the potential factors underlying children's unique vulnerabilities to the cumulative impacts of pollution and socioeconomic and community stressors.
Videos of the presentations and short bio of the presenters.
2017 Children's Environmental Health Symposium exploring "Environmental Justice and Children”. The symposium will be held April 26, 2017 and will examine the potential factors underlying children's unique vulnerabilities to the cumulative impacts of pollution and socioeconomic and community stressors.
Presentations from the 2016 Children’s Environmental Health Symposium exploring "New Findings from California”.
2016 OEHHA, Western States PEHSU at UCSF, and UC Berkeley CIRCLE children’s environmental health symposium exploring "New Findings from California”.
In 2015, OEHHA hosted is annual Children's Environmental Health Symposium, this time focusing on the impacts of climate change on children's health.
In 2013 speakers from Children’s Environmental Health Research Centers, Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units on the West Coast and OEHHA gathered to discuss children’s exposure to chemicals, how the environment changes the development of the brain and nervous system in children and childhood leukemia.