WHO Atlas Links Children’s Health and the Environment
In a new report, Inheriting a Sustainable World: Atlas on Children’s Health and the Environment, the World Health Organization (WHO) lays out the global challenges to children’s environmental health and identifies actions to prevent and reduce environmental risks.
Past Features
2017
- December 2017: Lancet Reports Highlight Environmental Impacts and Exposures
- October 2017: Global Environmental Health Day 2017 Focuses on Community-Engaged Research Around the World
- August 2017: A Global Collaborative Approach to Improve Human Health Risk Assessment
- June 2017: Planetary Health Paradigm Finds Synergy and Gains Momentum
- April 2017: WHO Atlas Links Children’s Health and the Environment
- February 2017: Lancet Countdown Tracks International Progress on Health and Climate Change
2016
- December 2016: "Passionate Advocate" for DOHaD Retires from NIEHS
- October 2016: Chronic Kidney Disease on the Rise in South Asia and Central America
- August 2016: First Annual Global Environmental Health Day Celebrates Collaboration
- June 2016: Preventing Disease through Healthy Environments: New World Health Organization Study Quantifies Impacts and Identifies Solutions
- April 2016: New Report Distills the Science Behind Climate Change Impacts on Health
- February 2016: Bridging the Knowledge-to-Action Gap through Community-Engaged Research
2015
- December 2015: Global Network Grows to Assess Chemical Risks and Improve Health
- October 2015: Convergence on Climate Change and Health
- August 2015: Focus Sharpens on Climate Change and Public Health
- June 2015: Clean Cookstoves for Healthier Lives: Progress on a Complex Issue
- April 2015: A Sum Greater than the Parts: WHO Collaborative Network Aims to Improve Children’s Environmental Health
- February 2015: Scientists Expose Health Consequences of Environmental Contaminants on Mothers and Children in the Faroe Islands
- February 2015: A Look Back at the First Year of the NIEHS–WHO Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health Sciences
2014
- December 2014: DOHAD: Addressing Determinants of Health Through the Life Course Around the World
- October 2014: Climate Experts Warming to Consideration of Health Issues
- August 2014: Exposure to Environmental Contaminants among Inuit Children: Building Partnerships to Respond to Health Concerns
- June 2014: Climate Assessments on National and Global Scales
- April 2014: Air Pollution Accounts for 1 in 8 Deaths Worldwide, According to New WHO Estimates
- February 2014: NIEHS Launches New Collaboration with the World Health Organization
2013
- December 2013: Environmental Health in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
- September 2013: RSV: Uncovering Gene-Environment Interactions
- July 2013: NIEHS Support for E-Waste Research
- July 2013: E-Waste Recycling in China: A Health Disaster in the Making?
- May 2013: Research and Remediation: Working with the Dhaka Community Hospital Trust
- May 2013: Arsenic: Learning the Effects, Lessening the Impacts in Bangladesh
- March 2013: The 2010 Global Burden of Disease Report: What It Means for NIEHS and Global Environmental Health
- January 2013: Fanning the Flames of Research on Cookstoves and Health
