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ANHE Policy - Advocacy Forum Monthly Call - January 2023
2023-01-05 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
Happy New Year!

For today’s call we wanted to build upon our discussion from December’s call on how to work with a divided Congress, so some powermapping, AND brainstorm issues we’d like to focus on in 2023. Also, we will be planning a virtual Hill visit date for the first quarter of 2023 and it would be great to begin planning now.

Looking forward to talking with you later today!
Kathy, Anne, and Katie

Policy Advocacy Forum January Call

January 5, 2023 3pm – 4pm ET

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Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS): Health Provider Series: Session 3
2023-01-18 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
1/18/23 – Exposure Pathways and Potential Health Effects
Overview
Learn how PFAS gets into our water, food, and consumer products, as well as findings from the NASEM report on potential health effects based on an extensive review of the literature.
About the Speaker
Erin Bell, PhD | University of Albany
Dr. Erin Bell is a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Department of Environmental Health in the School of Public Health of the University at Albany. Her research studies focus on environmental exposures as they relate to reproductive, immune, and cancer outcomes. Dr. Bell is currently the co-principal investigator of two cohort studies: the Upstate KIDS study, which follows over 6,000 children to identify potential risk factors for developmental health effects and the Health Study of New York State Communities Exposed to PFAS Contaminated Drinking Water, funded by ATSDR as one of seven sites participating in the Multi-Site PFAS Health Study. She has served on several National Academies committees, including the Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides: Seventh, Eighth, and Tenth Biennial Updates. She was a co-author for the recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) report, Guidance on PFAS Exposure, Testing, and Clinical Follow-up (2022) https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/guidance-on-pfas-testing-and-health-outcomes
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ACCREDITATION AND CONTACT HOURS
Each participant will earn one CE for attending each session. There is no cost for participating in any of the sessions.
Villanova University M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

American Academy of Nursing - The Nursing Leadership in Decarbonizing the US Health Sector Policy Dialogue
2023-01-20 13:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York)
The Nursing Leadership in Decarbonizing the US Health Sector Policy Dialogue will be held virtually on January 20th, 2023 from 1:00 – 2:30 PM ET. Registration is open to Academy Fellows at no additional cost, students at $25, and non-members at $80. Nursing continuing professional development contact hours will be available for purchase at $25 (1.5 contact hours). Registration is required to attend and a recording will be available for registrants after the event.
This policy dialogue will be hosted by the Expert Panel on Environmental & Public Health. The US health sector contributes 8.5% of the total greenhouse gasses produced by the US. These greenhouse gasses produce climate change which adversely impacts the health of individuals, especially vulnerable and economically challenged communities. In September 2021, the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) launched the Action Collaborative to Decarbonize the US Health Sector (National Academy of Medicine, 2021). In addition, at the most recent UN sponsored Congress of the Parties (COP 26), 50 nations pledged to develop climate-resilient and low-carbon health systems (World Health Organization, 2021). From making operational decisions about energy sources, food, and products to educating patients and advising policy makers, nurses play a key role in advancing decarbonization. This policy dialogue will briefly review the health and environmental impacts of climate change and the urgent need for action, introduce attendees to the sources of greenhouse gasses generated by the health sector (the three scopes of decarbonization), and promote dialogue about priority policy recommendations that nursing can champion and lead to expedite decarbonization (Dzau et al., 2021).
Policy Dialogue attendees will:

Analyze the impact of the US health care sector’s contributions to greenhouse gas emissions including operations (scope 1), purchased energy (scope 2); and the supply chain of services and health care products (scope 3).
Identify opportunities for nursing leadership in reducing carbon emissions generated by the health care sector.
Recommend policies that nurses can lead to quickly advance decarbonization of the health sector in the four priority areas- health care supply chain, health care delivery, health professional education, and policy, financing, and metrics.

Nursing Continuing Professional Development
The American Academy of Nursing is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Contact hours are awarded by the American Academy of Nursing following the completion of the virtual event and the post-conference evaluation. There are no relevant financial relationships identified for any individual in a position to control the content of this activity.
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ANHE Research Forum Monthly Call - January 2023
2023-01-26 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
Speaker: Jessica Castner, PhD, RN-BC, FAEN, FAAN, Caster Incorporated
Title: The Environmental Health Research Institute for Nurse and Clinician Scientists
Summary: Dr. Castner will highlight the Environmental Health Research Institute for Nurse and Clinician Scientists. She will convey the vision for the work, give a brief overview of the program, and the story of how it came to be. Past participants of the program will also share their experiences.
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ANHE Education Forum Monthly Call - February 2023
2023-02-13 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York)
ANHE Education Forum Monthly Call – February 13, 2023 at 5:30pm ET
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Speaker: Shanda Demorest, DNP, RN, PHN
Title: Climate Smart Health Care: Preparing the next generation of climate nurses
Overview: Nursing educators are increasingly being charged with bringing climate into the classroom. Attend this session to learn about best practice models for understanding climate change as it relates to human health and how to take action, as well as a specific program for nursing school participation
Objectives:

Discuss the nurses role in climate action in the healthcare sector.
Identify at least two resources in the Nurses Climate Challenge for integration of climate change into nursing curricular content.
Discuss the benefits for a nursing program to join the Nurses Climate Challenge.

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Participants who attend and complete an evaluation and post-test may receive 1 Nursing CE credit.

FIRST QUARTERLY HOW TO GET INVOLVED WITH ANHE WEBINAR
2023-02-15 12:00 - 12:45 (America/New_York)
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Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS): Health Provider Series: Session 4
2023-02-15 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
2/15/23 – Environmental Exposures Assessment, Testing & Clinical Management Guidelines
Overview
This presentation will focus on clinical guidance/recommendations on PFAS blood or urine testing, recommended guidance on how clinicians can advise patients on PFAS testing and health outcomes that may be associated with PFAS, as well as what to advise patients regarding standard medical or preventive care and exposure reduction.
About the Speaker
Alex Kemper, MD | The Ohio State University
Dr. Kemper is the Division Chief of Primary Care Pediatrics at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. The focus of his research is the evaluation of preventive services delivered in the primary care setting. He currently serves as the Chair of the Evidence Review Workgroup for the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children and is the Deputy Editor of PEDIATRICS. He is a former member of the US Preventive Services Task Force and has served on the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine planning committee on special nutritional requirements for disease states. He was a co-author for the recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) report, Guidance on PFAS Exposure, Testing, and Clinical Follow-up (2022)
https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/guidance-on-pfas-testing-and-health-outcomes.
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ACCREDITATION AND CONTACT HOURS
Each participant will earn one CE for attending each session. There is no cost for participating in any of the sessions.
Villanova University M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

ANHE Research Forum Monthly Call - February 2023
2023-02-23 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
February 23rd , 2023

Speaker: Jeannie Rodriguez, PhD, RN, APRN, Assistant Professor
Assistant Director, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Primary Care Program, Project Lead, SEEK Study, Emory University Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Atlanta, Georgia
Title: The Metabolome of Passive ENDS Exposure in Kids (The M-PEEK Study)
Summary: Jeannie Rodriguez (presenting), Irene Yang, Donghai Liang, Rachel Tchen, and Bayan Hawsawi assessed the feasibility of non-invasive biomatrices to detect secondhand e-cigarette vapor exposure in children and describe parental perceptions of vaping. Overall, sample-specific, and feature-specific correlations were strong to moderate between blood and the non-invasive biomatrices. Fourteen significant features were annotated, noting metabolites directly reflective of e-cigarette vapor exposure and metabolites of dopamine and oxidative stress, likely representing downstream effects of exposure. Most parents began vaping to stop smoking and described vaping as a minor health hazard or not a hazard. Parent vapers described
the “power of addiction”, “the appeal of vaping”, and a “cycle of judgement”.
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ANHE Policy Advocacy Forum Monthly Call - March 2023
2023-03-02 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
This month’s Policy & Advocacy call will be Thursday March 2nd at 3 pm ET and will be focused on two timely topics: 1) Ohio Train Derailment and 2) EPA soot comment period. Please see the agenda below and the call-in information.

Agenda
1. Ohio Train Derailment

Eve Gartner, managing attorney in the Toxic Exposure & Health Program at Earthjustice will join and give us the broad view of regulatory failures (explosions, derailments, leaks, etc.) and our addiction to plastic that made the derailment so toxic and dangerous. She’ll also talk about what levers we have with the EPA/Biden administration.
Peggy Berry, an ANHE nurse from Ohio, will also be on hand to share her experiences on the ground and exhort nurses to get involved, sharing a petition folks can sign right away

2. Soot Comment Period

Jessica Mengistab, ANHE Program Manager, will join to talk about EPA’s open comment period on the proposal to update air quality standards for particulate matter and how nurses can weigh during the comment period.

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ANHE Education Forum Monthly Call - March 2023
2023-03-13 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York)
Finding Health in Nature.We have a great speaker, Gibran Mancus, PHD, MSN-Ed, RN from the University of New Hampshire.Gibran will be discussing the science of spending time in nature and it’s impact on the physiological and psychological health. Information will be share regarding an ongoing study that involves participants spending time in the forest.The link to our call: https://ctedu.webex.com/meet/KMurphynvcc.commnet.edu

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Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS): Health Provider Series: Session 5
2023-03-15 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
3/15/23 – Exposure Reduction Strategies: A Focus on EJ Communities
Overview
Discuss the challenges of and solutions for reducing PFAS contamination in environmental justice communities.
About the Speaker
Pam Miller | Founder and Executive Director, Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT)
Pamela K. Miller is founder and Executive Director of Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT). ACAT is an environmental health and justice research, policy, and advocacy organization. She brings more than 30 years of research, education, and advocacy experience to her present work. She serves as Principal Investigator for community-based participatory research projects funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Pamela received a Meritorious Service Award from the University of Alaska and Alaska Conservation Foundation’s Olaus Murie Award in recognition of her “long-term outstanding professional contributions to the conservation movement in Alaska.” Prior to coming to Alaska, she served as Ocean Issues Technical Coordinator for the Washington Department of Ecology and Director of a marine science education center at Nisqually Reach in southern Puget Sound. She received the Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence in Washington State. She served as a community liaison for the recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) report, Guidance on PFAS Exposure, Testing, and Clinical Follow-up (2022) https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/guidance-on-pfas-testing-and-health-outcomes.
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ACCREDITATION AND CONTACT HOURS
Each participant will earn one CE for attending each session. There is no cost for participating in any of the sessions.
Villanova University M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

ANHE Research Forum Monthly Call - March 2023
2023-03-23 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
Date: March 23, 2023
Speaker: Dr. Claire Ann Richards, Assistant Professor, Washington State University College of Nursing
Title: Energy Insecurity and Human Health
Dr. Richards will share her program of research on energy insecurity and its relationship to climate breakdown. Dr. Richards will discuss different approaches to describing and addressing co-occurring power outages, wildfire, and extreme heat in the Pacific Northwest.
Objectives of the talk are:

Attendees can distinguish acute and chronic forms of energy insecurity and what is known about how they relate to structural and social determinants of health
Attendees will understand challenges with available data to conduct surveillance of energy insecurity
Attendees will discuss potential community-based interventions to protect human health in the context of energy insecurity and climate breakdown

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Nursing Continuing Education credit will be provided for participants who complete an evaluation and earn 80% on the post-test.

ANHE Education Forum Monthly Call - April 2023
2023-04-10 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York)
When: Apr 10, 2023 05:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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How to Get Involved with ANHE Webinar
2023-04-12 12:00 - 12:45 (America/New_York)
Welcome to the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments
Join us for a webinar titled How to Get Involved with ANHE

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Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS): Health Provider Series: Session 6
2023-04-12 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
4/12/23 – Looking Forward: NASEM Recommendations to Improve Public Health
Overview
Review the NASEM report’s recommendations that include public health surveillance, as well as the critical need to educate health providers on environmental exposures and associated health effects.
About the Speaker
Laura Anderko, RN, PhD
Dr. Anderko is an environmental health nurse consultant and co-director of the Federal Region 3 Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU) of Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment at the M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing, Villanova University. She has consulted with health providers and communities about potential health effects and risk reduction strategies for PFAS. She was a co-author for the recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) report, Guidance on PFAS Exposure, Testing, and Clinical Follow-up (2022) https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/guidance-on-pfas-testing-and-health-outcomes.
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ACCREDITATION AND CONTACT HOURS
Each participant will earn one CE for attending each session. There is no cost for participating in any of the sessions.
Villanova University M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

1st Annual Embracing Health & Equity Symposium: Embarking on the Road to Climate-smart Health Care
2023-04-21 12:30 - 16:45 (America/New_York)
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Environment, Health, and Nursing in San Diego - An Earth Day Conference
2023-04-22 09:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The California Nurses for Environmental Health and Justice, in collaboration with Point Loma, presents: SD flyer Environmental Health & nursing conference

ANHE Research Forum Monthly Call - April 2023
2023-04-27 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
Speaker: Shirley C. Gordon PhD, RN, NCSN, AHN-BC, HWNC-BC
Professor, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
Florida Atlantic University
Title: Exploring Long-term Human Health Effects of Exposure to Harmful Algal Blooms (LEE-HABs)
Summary: Dr. Shirley C. Gordon is a Professor at Florida Atlantic University, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing. Her research areas involve caring for persons experiencing chronic stigmatized conditions; developing theories to guide nursing practice; holistic nurse coaching; and environmental health including exploring long-term health effects of harmful algae bloom exposure. Published widely, Dr. Gordon has also received funding to support research and service related to harmful algae blooms, persistent head lice, nursing delegation, and school nursing. In 2021, Dr. Gordon established an Algae Bloom Biorepository, funded by the Florida Department of Health.
When: Apr 27, 2023 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)Register in advance for this meeting:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAlceisqzstHN0g5MDJ1_CtDzBdbANC42uYAfter registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting

Instagram LIVE - Author Talk with Sarah DiGregorio
2023-04-28 12:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Join us Friday, April 28th at 12pm ET – on Instagram LIVE – for a lively conversation with author Sarah DiGregorio http://sarahdigregorio.com/ on her new book Taking Care!

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“In Taking Care, Sarah DiGregorio does the nearly impossible; seamlessly weaving together personal narratives and experiences while crafting a well-documented and researched book on the profession of nursing.”
—Monica McLemore RN, PhD, University of Washington School of Nursing
”Taking Care is a revelation! DiGregorio tracks the necessity of caretaking from Neolithic times to our present moment of political struggle and climate change. Through informed hands-on care, patient advocacy, and an ongoing quest for justice, Taking Care shows that nurses make the world a better place.”
—Theresa Brown, RN, The New York Times bestselling author of Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient and The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients’ Lives.

Description:
In this sweeping cultural history of nursing from the Stone Age to the present, the critically acclaimed author of Early pays homage to the profession and makes an urgent call for change.
Nurses have always been vital to human existence. A nurse was likely there when you were born and a nurse might well be there when you die. Familiar in hospitals and doctors’ offices, these dedicated health professionals can also be found in schools, prisons, and people’s homes; at summer camps; on cruise ships, and even at NASA. Yet despite being celebrated during the Covid-19 epidemic, nurses are often undermined and undervalued in ways that reflect misogyny and racism, and that extend to their working conditions–and affect the care available to everyone. But the potential power of nursing to create a healthier, more just world endures.
The story of nursing is complicated. It is woven into war, plague, religion, the economy, and our individual lives in myriad ways. In Taking Care, journalist Sarah DiGregorio chronicles the lives of nurses past and tells the stories of those today–caregivers at the vital intersection of health care and community who are actively changing the world, often invisibly. An absorbing and empathetic work that combines storytelling with nuanced reporting, Taking Care examines how we have always tried to care for each other–the incredible ways we have succeeded and the ways in which we have failed. Fascinating, empowering and significant, it is a call for change and a love letter to the nurses of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

Agriculture & Climate Impacts: A Discussion on the 2023 Farm Bill
2023-05-04 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
The science is clear: If we don’t reduce greenhouse gas emissions from food and farming, we can’t avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Agriculture in America could become the leading source of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Congress recently provided $20 billion in the Inflation Reduction Act to support farmers who adopt “climate-smart” practices, including changes in fertilizer and manure management. Some members of Congress are seeking to divert this funding. The 2023 Farm Bill is a key opportunity to protect that investment and help make sure funding support is going to farmers and ranchers who are committed to reducing their emissions. Tune in for a discussion with Environmental Working Group on how agriculture impacts climate change, why it matters, and how nurses can get involved in climate advocacy around the 2023 Farm Bill.
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ANHE Education Forum Monthly Call - May 2023
2023-05-15 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York)
When: May 8, 2023 05:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)Register in advance for this meeting:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErf-qvrzkjHteV2T6Snft6sZ_IFY0OTD_y

2023 ANHE Nursing Summit on Environmental Health - From PFAS to Paris: Honoring our Pasts, Leading our Futures
2023-05-22 11:00 - 2023-05-23 15:00 (America/New_York)
Please join us for the ANHE Nursing Summit on Environmental Health – From PFAS to Paris: Honoring our Pasts, Leading our Futures, which is co-located with CleanMed 2023 in PIttsburgh, PA and is being co-sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment.
Through our partnership with the organizers of CleanMed 2023, Practice Greenhealth and Health Care without Harm, we are pleased to offer ANHE Nursing Summit attendees discounted rates to attend all or part of CleanMed.
Visit the CleanMed registration form here.
At the top of the form, enter the Special access code “ANHE.2023”. (see image below for where to enter this)
Make your selection from among the registration options:

AHNE Summit Only ($149)
AHNE Summit + CleanMed Full Pass ($1029)
AHNE Summit + CleanMed Tuesday Only Pass ($524)
AHNE Summit: Retired/Reduced Income ($75)
AHNE Summit: Student ($50) ** Special student rate only available until May 1st **

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EPA Climate Change and Children’s Health and Well-Being in the U.S. Report
2023-05-22 14:30 - 15:30 (America/New_York)
Our climate is changing, and the health and well-being of children will continue to be affected in many ways. Children are uniquely vulnerable to climate change due to a variety of physical, cognitive, behavioral, and social factors. Climate change-related impacts in childhood can have lifelong consequences due to effects on learning, physical health, chronic disease, and other complications.
This national-scale, multi-sector report quantifies projected health effects associated with extreme heat, air quality, changing seasons, flooding, and infectious diseases. Where possible, the analyses consider the extent to which these risks disproportionately fall on children from overburdened populations.
U.S. EPA will be hosting a webinar to introduce the EPA Climate Change and Children’s Health and Well-Being in the U.S. Report on May 22, 2023, from 2:30-3:30pm ET.
EPA Climate Change and Children’s Health and Well-Being in the United States Report is a part of the Climate Change Impacts and Risk Analysis (CIRA) project, a framework that quantifies and monetizes the impacts of climate change in the U.S.
For more information, please visit https://www.epa.gov/cira.
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ANHE Research Forum Monthly Call - May 2023
2023-05-25 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
May 25th, 2023 – TENTATIVE

Speaker: Teresa Dodd-Butera, PhD; RN/DABAT

Associate Dean for Research
Professor, Public Health and Doctoral Programs
Azusa Pacific University, School of Nursing
San Diego and Monrovia Campuses

Title: Chronic Exposures in Pregnancy

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1 Nursing Continuing Education credit will be provided to participants who complete an evaluation and earn at least 80% on post-test.

ANHE Research Forum Monthly Call - May 2023
2023-05-25 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
ANHE Research Forum Monthly Call – May 25, 2023 – 3pm ET

Speaker: Teresa Dodd-Butera, PhD; RN/DABAT
Title: Environmental Health Emergencies: Risks to the Maternal-Fetal Dyad
Climate change may contribute, in part, to the intensity and frequency of environmental health emergencies. These disasters are complex events, and require individual, community, and systems level strategies. CO poisoning can occur in the aftermath of environmental emergencies, such as wildfires and winter storms, related to power losses and makeshift heating and cooking appliances. The maternal – fetal environment is particularly vulnerable to CO poisoning. Evidence in the literature will be presented, along with specific case studies from the California Poison Control System. The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction will also be presented, within the context of understanding risk and prioritizing prevention and preparedness, particularly for the health and well-being of the maternal-fetal dyad.
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Celebración del segundo aniversario de ANHE Latinoamérica
2023-06-05 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
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Beat the Heat: How to help protect your patients from heat illness during the Texas summer
2023-07-12 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Join us for a webinar on July 12 at 7pm CT:
Beat the Heat: How to help protect your patients from heat illness during the Texas summer

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This presentation will help primary care clinicians identify patient populations at increased risk for heat-related illness and how to educate patients on fundamental heat stress preventive measures specific to their risk. After this webinar, primary care clinicians will better understand how they can partner with their patients to monitor for heat- related illness and associated health effects during the hot Texas summer. Model written materials for clinician and patient education regarding preventing serious heat illness will be provided as part of the presentation.
Attendees will learn:

Identify populations at increased risk for heat-related illness (HRI),
Understand fundamental methods to prevent HRI,
Be ready to monitor for HRI and associated health effects, and
Further HRI prevention through patient education.

1 Nursing CE credit will be available for attendees who complete the evaluation and receive at least an 80% on the post-test.
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Speaker:
Ronda Brewer McCarthy, MD, MPH, FACOEM is National Medical Director for Concentra’s Medical Surveillance Services , chair of Concentra’s Regulatory, Testing, and Exam Medical Expert Panel and occupational medicine consultant for several worksites in the Central Texas area. Dr. Ronda McCarthy is a graduate of the University of Texas Health Science Center- Houston (MD), Medical College of Wisconsin (MPH), and the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine (occupational medicine). She is board certified in Occupational Medicine and a fellow of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Relevant experience includes municipal and industrial worksite medical directorship, occupational medicine, urgent care, employee health and wellness programs, return to work and fitness for duty exams, ADA accommodation evaluations and medical surveillance programs for chemical, biologic and physical toxic and hazardous exposures. Areas of interest include: heat stress and heat-related illness prevention programs; respirable crystalline silica; health harms of climate hazards; police, firefighter and hazmat exams; OSHA regulated surveillance and screenings; and occupational medicine epidemiology.

ANHE Practice Forum Monthly WEBINAR - July 2023
2023-07-13 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Join the ANHE Practice Forum and Catherine Toms, MD, MPH to learn about environmental impacts on maternal and infant health and the Green Cars for Kids program.
July 13th at 6pm ET

Speaker: Catherine Toms, MD, MPH
Learners will:

Relate the US’s current state of infant and maternal mortality.
Identify two examples of racial inequities that lead to disparities in perinatal health.
Describe two public health challenges that the Green Cars for Kids program addresses.
Summarize the Green Cars for Kids program.

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Those who complete the webinar evaluation and receive at least an 80% on post-test will be eligible to receive 1 credit of Nursing Continuing Education (CE).
Dr. Catherine Toms is a public health physician. She is senior advisor for climate and health for the international nonprofit, Health Care Without Harm, where she helps Florida’s health systems be more sustainable and resilient. Before joining Health Care Without Harm, Dr. Toms designed programs aimed at reducing maternal and infant mortality. As a steering committee member with Florida Clinicians for Climate Action, she educates other health professionals and the public about the health impacts of climate change and advocates for equitable solutions promoting clean energy and healthy communities. Dr. Toms is especially interested in the health impacts of extreme heat on vulnerable populations, including expectant mothers. Dr. Toms leads a new program, Green Cars for Kids, which provides free transportation to non-emergency healthcare for low-income expectant mothers and kids using an all-electric fleet.
Dr. Toms earned a bachelor’s degree from Duke University, a medical degree from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, and trained at Buskerud Central Hospital in Drammen, Norway. She holds a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Green Cars for Kids Website and Instagram:

https://greencars4kids.org/
https://www.instagram.com/greencars4kids/

ANHE Fellowship: Impact through Nurse - Community Partnerships Part 1
2023-07-26 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
ANHE Fellowship: Impact through Nurse – Community Partnerships Part 1
The second cohort of the ANHE Environmental Health Nurse Fellowship officially ended on May 31st, 2023. We want to take some time to showcase some of the incredible work the fellows did – and are continuing to do – with their partner community-based organizations. ANHE is hosting a webinar series featuring nurses who participated in the second cohort. Each speaker will share their experience as a nurse fellows, how they focused their partnership work throughout the program, and the success and challenges they faced.
Join us on July 26th at 3 pm ET to learn more about their partnerships and projects and to celebrate their accomplishments.
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Speakers:

LaDonna Gaines, Gloria Barrera, and Joe Bowman

Objectives:
1. Describe the structure and goals of the ANHE Environmental Health Nurse Fellowship in building nurses-community partnerships to address environmental health issues.
2. Discuss three experiences from the Environmental Health Nurse Fellows that participated in the second cohort of the ANHE Fellowship program.
3. Identify barriers, lessons learned, and strategies to overcome challenges in developing and fostering nurses-community partnerships.

NURSES RUNNING FOR OFFICE - ANHE Policy-Advocacy Forum Monthly Call - August 2023
2023-08-03 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
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