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Research Work Group Webinar
2018-10-25 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
Thursday October 25
3 pm ET/2 pm CT/1 pm MT/12 noon PT
Dr. Kristianna Pettibone
NIH/NIEHS
“Expanding the Concept of Translational Research: Making a Place for Environmental Health Sciences”
Open access link to the paper is here: https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP3657
Meeting URL: anymeeting.com/anhe1
Optional Dial-In Number: 863-208-0120
Attendee PIN: 306 1788#
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Climate Change Committee Call
2018-10-17 17:30 - 18:30
Meeting URL: anymeeting.com/anhe1
Optional Dial-In Number: 863-208-0120
Attendee PIN: 306 1788#
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Research Work Group Webinar
2018-09-27 15:00 - 16:00
Thursday September 27, 2018
3 pm ET/2 pm CT/1 pm MT/12 noon PT
Dr. Hyunok Choi
University at Albany School of Public Health
“Greater Susceptibility of Girls to Airborne Benzo[a]pyrene for Obesity-Associated Childhood Asthma”

Clean Energy & Climate Solutions: Health Sector and Nursing Leadership Webinar
2018-09-26 15:00 - 16:15
Register here: http://www.anymeeting.com/PIID=ED56DD8887493C.

The Clean Water Rule - Opportunities for Action
2018-09-19 15:00 - 16:00 | Webinar
Join the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments for a webinar “The Clean Water Rule – Opportunities for Nursing Action” on Wednesday September 19th at 3 pm ET. Learn more about some of the most pressing threats to clean water and health including harmful algal blooms, drinking water protections, and emerging contaminants, such as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Tune in to hear about specific opportunities for nurses to take action and preserve clean drinking water for all. 1 hour of FREE nursing continuing education credits available.
Register here today.

Symposium: Environmental Determinants of Health: Air Quality
2018-09-13 15:15 - 16:30
2018 State of the Science Congress on Nursing Research – Precision Health in Washington, DC, September 13-15
Symposium: Environmental Determinants of Health: Air Quality Thursday September 13th, 3:15 PM – 4:30 PM
3:15 PM Ambient Air Pollution as Multi-Level Environmental Exposure Endotype, Jessica Castner
3:30 PM Relationship between Indoor Volatile Organic Compounds and Asthma Outcomes in Older Adults, Barbara Polivka
3:45 PM Sources of indoor air pollution during pregnancy: What do moms know?, Azita Amiri
4:00 PM Report-Back Strategies to Promote Environmental Health Literacy: A Systematic Literature Review, Luz Huntington-Moskos
4:15 PM The HAPIN stove intervention trial: Developing theory-based behavioral change communication strategies to increase sustained use of gas stoves among pregnant women in rural Guatemala, Lisa Thompson
We’d love to plan to have dinner with ANHE affiliates who might be attending at these times. Please reach out and let Jessica or Azita know if you are attending CANS this year. Please let us know of other presentations our affiliates have in the upcoming months.

Global Nurses Climate Change Committee
2018-07-18 17:30 - 18:30
July 18th 5:30-6:30 pm (July 19th Australia)
Meeting URL: anymeeting.com/anhe1
Optional Dial-In Number: 863-208-0120
Attendee PIN: 306 1788#
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Research Work Group Call
2018-06-28 19:00 - 20:00
Please nominate (including self-nominate) for our ongoing co-chair position(s). Our preliminary agenda includes:

1) Update on ANHE strategic plan and organization
2) Co-chairs for next year
3) Action steps for research priorities and funding steps
4) Speaker recommendations for the upcoming year
5) Public Health Nursing Journal follow up

Date: June 21st, 2018 7pm -8pm ET
Conference line: 240-454-5720 No PIN needed

Policy & Advocacy Workgroup Call: Discussion on Toxics & Chemical Policy
2018-06-21 15:00 - 16:00
We are thrilled to have Richard Denison, PhD, Senior Scientist with the Environmental Defense Fund, join us on our upcoming call. He will be telling us about the approach recently released by the EPA addressing the first 10 chemicals being assessed in the new Toxic Substances Control Act. This approach would ignore significant sources of pollution and could have serious, negative impacts on public health.
Dr. Denison will be giving us the details of what they are proposing and then we’ll have a discussion of how nurses can engage on this issue. This should be a great call – hope you can join us!!
Policy & Advocacy Work Group Call-in Details:
Date: June 21st, 2018 3pm -4pm ET
Conference line: 240-454-5720 No PIN needed
Richard A. Denison, Ph.D., has over 30 years of experience in the environmental arena, specializing in policy, hazard and risk science and policy for industrial chemicals and nanomaterials.
For many years Richard played a central role in pressing for reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act and represented EDF in its advocacy work to secure passage in 2016 of the Lautenberg Act that overhauled TSCA for the first time since its passage in 1976. Richard has testified numerous times before various Congressional committees on the need for fundamental reform of US policy toward industrial and consumer chemicals and the policy elements critical for such reform. He now leads EDF’s team working to secure strong implementation of the Lautenberg Act.
READ: Pruitt EPA Illegally and Dramatically Undermines Authority to Limit Dangerous Chemicals under Reformed Chemical Safety Law

Health Facilities and Disaster-Resilience: The PAHO Smart Hospital Project
2018-06-20 13:00 - 14:00
Audience Log-in URL: https://www.anymeeting.com/250-018-252
Registration Form URL: http://www.anymeeting.com/PIID=ED55DA86874B39
Dial-in Number: 863-208-0120
Attendee PIN: 306 1788#

Global Nurses Climate Change Committee Call
2018-05-16 17:30 - 18:30
May 16th 5:30-6:30 pm (May 17th Australia)
Meeting URL: anymeeting.com/anhe1
Optional Dial-In Number: 863-208-0120
Attendee PIN: 306 1788#
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Nursing Summit on Environmental Health: “Preparing Nurses for Critical Environmental Health Issues”
2018-05-06 - 2018-05-07 | San Deigo, CA
The Nursing Summit on Environmental Health: Preparing Nurses for Critical Environmental Health Issues is a CleanMed pre-conference event that will be held on May 6th-7th, 2018 at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina, in San Diego, CA. This lively, interactive event will be content rich, offer great networking, and will send nurses home with tools to use to create healthier environments and therefore healthier people. Nursing continuing education hours and deep discounted CleanMed rates are available to summit attendees. To register for the Summit, click here.

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April Research Workgroup Call
2018-04-26 19:30 - 20:30
Our Speaker: Dr. Vijay Limaye
Title: Climate Change, Air Pollution, and Our Health
Meeting URL: anymeeting.com/anhe1 , Optional Dial-In Number: 863-208-0120 Attendee PIN: 306 1788#
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Bio:
Dr. Vijay Limaye is an environmental health scientist working as a Climate Change and Health Science Fellow at the Natural Resources Defense Council in New York City. He is broadly interested in quantifying, communicating, and mitigating the health risks associated with climate change, with a focus on the public health burden of global air pollution and extreme heat events. Prior to his role at NRDC, Vijay worked for three years as a scientist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regional offices in San Francisco and Chicago, focusing on issues such as Clean Air Act regulatory implementation, risk communication, citizen science, and air-quality monitoring policy. Vijay holds a B.A. from the University of California-Berkeley and a Ph.D. in environmental epidemiology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For his dissertation, Vijay has conducted interdisciplinary research quantifying the health impacts of climate change–triggered air pollution and heat waves for populations in the United States and India.

Global Nurses Climate Change Committee April Call
2018-04-18 13:00 - 14:00

Research WorkGroup Fukushima Compound-Disaster: Implications for Nursing Practice All-Hazards / Environmental Health Planning and Consequence Management
2018-03-22 15:00 - 16:00
Meeting URL: anymeeting.com/anhe1
Optional Dial-In Number: 863-208-0120
Attendee PIN: 306 1788#
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We look forward to warmly welcoming our speakers:
Christopher Eddy, M.P.H., REHS/RS, CP-F
Adjunct Faculty, College of Nursing and Health Care Professions, Grand Canyon University
chris.eddy@my.gu.edu
Eriko Sase, Ph.D.
Visiting Researcher, Kennedy Insitute of Ethics, Georgetown University
Adjunct Faculty, The Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Takemi Fellow, Program in International Health, T.H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health
erikosase@post.harvard.edu
Laura Anderko PhD RN
Robert and Kathleen Scanlon Endowed Chair in Values Based Health Care & Professor
Director, Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment (Region 3 PEHSU)
School of Nursing & Health Studies
Georgetown University
http://kidsandenvironment.georgetown.edu
la266@georgetown.edu

Clean Energy Solutions--A Discussion with the Global Nurses Climate Change Committee
2018-03-21 17:30 - 18:30
Join the Global Nurses Climate Change Committee this month for a discussion on how energy choices play a role in climate change and what nurses can do to help support healthier alternatives to fossil fuel based energy options. Hear from Fresh Energy’s Science Policy Director J. Drake Hamilton as she discusses their work in Minnesota in promoting a transition to a clean energy economy and energy policies that benefit all. Learn specific actions that nurses can take within their personal and professional lives to help reduce your climate impact and improve health.
Meeting URL: anymeeting.com/anhe1
Optional Dial-In Number: 863-208-0120
Attendee PIN: 306 1788#
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J. Drake Hamiltonis Fresh Energy’s science policy director. An expert in climate and energy policy at the state and national levels, her responsibilities include scientific analysis and policy development of clean energy solutions to global warming that will maximize economic opportunities. J. represents Fresh Energy at the global climate summits, and witnessed the historic 2015 Paris Agreement; she showcased Minnesota’s nation-leading deep carbon reductions at the 2017 Bonn Climate Summit. J. earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in physical geography from Dartmouth College and the University of Minnesota, with an emphasis on climatology and water resources, and was formerly assistant professor at The George Washington University. She ranks among the top 12 climate communicators internationally. Minneapolis-St. Paul Magazine named Hamilton “one of Minnesota’s 100 influential people who make things happen.”

Research WorkGroup Meeting
2018-02-22 19:00 - 20:00
Research Workgroup webconference on Thursday, February 22 7 pm ET
Meeting URL: anymeeting.com/anhe1
Optional Dial-In Number: 863-208-0120
Attendee PIN: 306 1788#
Quick dial (mobile): 863-208-0120,306 1788#

ANHE Global Nurses Climate Change Committee February Call
2018-02-21 17:30 - 18:30

Health in a Changing Climate
2018-02-10 08:00 - 14:00 | Bon Secours St. Mary’s Hospital, 5801 Bremo Road, Richmond, Virginia
Virginia Clinicians for Climate Action invites you to a free educational event for physicians and nurses. This symposium will review how changes in the climate affect health through effects on plant physiology, extreme heat, water quality and rising sea level. It will review populations that are at elevated risk from these effects. It will conclude with a discussion on clinician advocacy, and how health care providers can influence policy-making on this complex subject.
Topics include:

Heat Related Illnesses (HRI) in Virginia
Vector-Borne Diseases in a Changing Climate
Threats Posed by Sea Level Rise and Flooding
Pollen & Allergies in Richmond

Global Nurses Climate Change Committee
2018-01-17 17:30 - 18:30

Health of the Air: Research Workgroup November 2017 Call
2017-11-30 15:00 - 16:00
Please save the date for our Research Workgroup call on Thursday, November 30 at 3 pm ET. We look forward to seeing you!
Webinar details:
Thursday, November 30, 2017 3-4 pm ET

Audience Log-in URL:
https://www.anymeeting.com/135-710-486
Dial-in Number:
863-208-0120
Attendee PIN:
306 1788#
Dr. Kevin Cromar will present “Local Health Benefits of Improved Federal Air Quality Standards”
Thursday, November 30, 2017 during our 3-4 pm ET meeting
Check out healthoftheair.org for a web-based tool on the morbidity and mortality from different air pollution standards in your community.
Dr. Kevin Cromar is the Director of the Air Quality Program at the Marron Institute of Urban Management and a member of the Utah Air Quality Board. An environmental epidemiologist by training, he has appointments in the departments of Population Health and Environmental Medicine at NYU School of Medicine. He was previously a research fellow at NYU School of Law Institute for Policy Integrity and currently serves on the Environmental Health Policy Committee for the American Thoracic Society. His current research includes collaborations with NASA, UNICEF, UNEP, and SEDEMA (Mexico City) and currently serves on the science advisory committee for the Air Quality Health Index of Health Canada. He was part of the international expert panel that produced the joint ERS/ATS policy statement on what constitutes an adverse health effect of air pollution and served as the organizing chair of the interagency (ATS, US EPA, NASA, NIEHS) workshop on air pollution monitoring for health research and patient care.

Practice Work Group Journal Club - November 2017
2017-11-16 19:30 - 20:30 | Conference Number: (240) 454-5720 No PIN
ANHE Practice Work Group November Call
November 16th 7:30 pm-8:30 pm (ET)
Call in number: 240-454-5720, no PIN needed.
International instructions – https://www.uberconference.com/international
New Opportunity– The Practice Workgroup will be hosting a journal club every other month to discuss varying environmental health concerns among nursing colleagues. Our May call will be the first opportunity to participate. The topic of the journal club this month will be on environmental sustainability in healthcare. To facilitate discussion, we will send out two articles ahead of the call (see below), but will also review the content on the beginning of the call. Participants will have the opportunity to share thoughts, insights, best practices, etc. based on the topic. We hope you are able to join us!
In order to ensure that this journal club is helpful to participants, the Practice Workgroup would love feedback about this new format and what topics you would like discussed on future calls.
1 Hour Free CE offered for participants
Practice Work Group Article 1
Practice Work Group Article 2

Global Nurses Climate Change Committee
2017-11-15 17:30 - 18:30
Next call: November 15th (November 16th Australia)
Call in number: 240-454-5720, no PIN needed.
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ANHE Booth @ APHA Expo Hall
2017-11-07 09:30 - 17:30, 2017-11-06 09:30 - 17:30, 2017-11-05 13:30 - 17:30
Stop by the ANHE booth in the APHA expo hall
Expo Hall Hours

Nov. 5
1:30 – 5:30 p.m.

Nov. 6
9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Nov. 7
9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Research Work Group - The Concept of Exposure in Environmental Health for Nursing
2017-10-26 15:00 - 16:00
Please save the date, October 26 at 3pm ET, to join our Research Workgroup for Dr. Marcella Remer Thompson’s presentation “The Concept of Exposure in Environmental Health for Nursing”
Marcella Remer THOMPSON, PhD, MS, CSP, RN, COHN-S, FAAOHN is Assistant Professor, College of Nursing, University of Rhode Island, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Brown University, and Co-Leader of Community Engagement, Superfund Research Program, Brown University. Dr. Thompson is a Board Certified Occupational Health Nurse Specialist (COHN-S), Board Certified Safety Professional (CSP), and Fellow in the Academy of American Occupational Health Nurses (FAAOHN).
She received her B.S. in Nursing from Salve Regina University, M.S. in Occupational Health Nursing from Boston University, M.S. in Occupational Health from Harvard School of Public Health, PhD. in Nursing from University of Rhode Island. She also completed her post-doctoral Research with the Superfund Research Program at Brown University.
Dr. Thompson has a breadth of occupational and environmental health experiences in clinical, corporate and academic venues as founding clinical director of a hospital-based occupational health service; an occupational health and safety consultant to small and medium-sized business; a safety engineer at a semiconductor fabrication facility; and hazmat incident commander. Her scholarly work has two objectives: 1. contribute to the body of knowledge that is environmental health nursing with a focus on exposures to multiple environmental chemicals; and 2. research the developing role of a knowledge broker connecting science with society through creating substantive multidisciplinary knowledge, facilitating knowledge exchanges, and transforming research into action.
Currently, Dr. Thompson is PI of a multi-phased multi-year community engaged research project in partnership with the Narragansett Tribe to address environmental contamination of fish living in their Tribal waters. Together, they plan, organize, structure and design projects that address their environmental health related issues of concern – building upon their assets, strengths and cultural knowledge while advancing scientific knowledge, environmental health policy and evidence-based practices.
The work in her presentation has been supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under Grant (2P42ES013660-11 Brown University Superfund Research Program). National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under Grant U54GM115677 through IDeA: Clinical Translational Research; and the College of Nursing at the University of Rhode Island. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of NIH, NIEHS, NIGMS or URI

Global Nurses Climate Change Committee Call
2017-10-23 17:30 - 18:30
Next call: October 23rd (10/24 Aus)
Call in number: 240-454-5720, no PIN needed.
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Practice Work Group: Environmental Health in Primary Care: Case Studies and Discussion
2017-10-19 15:00 - 16:00
For this month’s Practice Work Group Call, we are thrilled to hear from Erin Flynn. She will be discuss assessing environmental health in the primary care setting, using both scientific evidence and case studies.
Erin Flynn is a family nurse practitioner currently working in Indiana. She earned her Master’s in Public Health from the University of San Francisco under the mentorship of Dr. Barbara Sattler, then continued on to earn her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree. Her research interests lie in environmental health and LGBT care.
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1 Hour free CE

Water and Health: Opportunities for Action - October Policy-Advocacy WG Call
2017-10-05 15:00 - 16:00
Here in the United States, most of us take clean water for granted. When we turn on the tap, we assume the water is clean, healthy, and free from pollutants that could have negative health impacts. We expect our water to be safe for drinking, showering, and washing dishes.

While the United States has made great strides in providing clean, drinkable water, water quality and safety still remains a major concern for public health. Without action now, this problem may only worsen.

On this month’s Policy-Advocacy WG Call we’ll be reviewing ANHE’s latest report and provide you with tools and resources to take action today! Hope you can join us!

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