Partnerships for Environmental Public Health (PEPH)

PEPH established its webinar series to promote interactions among grantees, increase awareness of common issues and approaches, and facilitate consideration of emerging concerns. While the primary audience is grantees within the PEPH network, anyone interested in environmental public health is welcome to participate.
Webinar | Topic | Date |
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Environmental Public Health Mobile Apps – Session Two This webinar will focus on using smart-phone apps to improve health through citizen engagement and mobile learning.
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Environmental Public Health Apps, Virtual Reality, Citizen Science | 08/23/2023 |
Environmental Public Health Mobile Apps – Session One This webinar will focus on using smart-phone apps to improve health through citizen engagement and mobile learning.
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Environmental Public Health Apps, Virtual Reality, Citizen Science | 08/10/2023 |
Social Stress and Susceptibility This webinar will focus on the intersection of social stressors and environmental exposures.
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Social Stress, Susceptibility | 01/30/2023 |
Safety & Health Training for American Indians & Alaska Natives in the Western U.S. – Session Two In this webinar, we will hear from two NIEHS Worker Training Program grantees who are providing health and safety training to Native American Tribes. The first presentation will be given by Alabama Fire College and the Saint Regis Mohawks. The second presentation will be given by the United Steelworkers – Tony Mazzocchi Center.
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Safety and Health Training with Tribal Partners | 01/10/2023 |
Safety and Health Training for American Indians and Alaska Natives in the Western U.S. – Session 1 In this webinar the presenters will describe hazardous waste training, hazmat transport training, and emergency response training, specifically in underserved and remote tribal communities with particular focus on the Western Region Universities Consortium partnership and collaboration with Zender Environmental and their Rural Alaska Community Environmental Job Training program.
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Safety and Health Training With Tribal Partners | 12/07/2022 |
In this webinar the presenters will discuss examples of the methods and tools they developed to support community engagement in field sampling and preliminary results dissemination as they relate to intervention strategies to reduce plastic waste burning, and exposure assessment to pollutants from burning plastics.
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Plastics, Health, Community Engagement | 07/12/2022 |
Promoting Environmental and Occupational Public Health through Language Justice In this webinar our presenters will describe why and how language should be considered in the context of racial and social justice. They will also identify the challenges, benefits, and opportunities for community-engaged research projects and programs.
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Language Justice | 03/02/2022 |
Community Health Workers: Building Cultural Bridges to Address Environmental Public Health In this webinar we will hear two co-presentations about NIEHS-funded projects where academics are partnering with community health workers to address local environmental health issues.
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Community Health | 01/27/2022 |
Wastewater Surveillance - Monitoring COVID-19 to Protect Public Health This webinar brings together NIEHS-supported researchers working with university campuses, tribal nations, and Appalachian communities, to discuss their unique research perspectives and experiences with wastewater surveillance for monitoring COVID-19. We will also hear from the Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch Head of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, who will describe the North Carolina Wastewater Monitoring program.
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Wastewater, Monitoring, Public Health | 12/03/2021 |
Community Engagement at a Distance: Maintaining Trusting Partnerships In this webinar, we will hear from three community-engaged research projects that have been devising strategies to sustain their community partnerships during the pandemic.
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Community Engagement | 10/29/2020 |
Community Engagement at a Distance: An Informal Education Perspective In this webinar, we heard from three community engagement teams that have been adapting their hands-on classroom activities for the virtual classroom. The presenters discussed strategies and outcomes of their physically distant education efforts.
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Community Engagement | 09/29/2020 |
Working with Communities to Understand and Address PFAS Exposures In this webinar, we heard from three experts who have been examining PFAS and working with communities to address their concerns. They addressed our current knowledge, highlighted accomplishments, discussed the importance of working with communities, and noted research and communication opportunities.
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Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) | 03/25/2020 |
Citizen Science Programs at the Centers for Oceans and Human Health The NIEHS and the National Science Foundation have created the Oceans and Human Health (OHH) program, which emphasizes research on harmful algal blooms (HABs), infectious microbes (Vibrio bacteria), and contaminants of emerging concern such as microplastics. To foster community involvement and participation, each of the four OHH Centers has a Community Engagement Core that works with Center researchers to communicate research findings more effectively and to engage community groups, resource managers, other stakeholders, and the public. This webinar discussed several ongoing citizen science programs at the Great Lakes and South Carolina Centers that involve community members as learners and practitioners of OHH research.
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Citizen Science, Oceans and Human Health | 02/25/2020 |
For information regarding PEPH webinars held prior to January 2014, please see the “Past Events” section of the Events webpage.
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Send comments, questions, and suggestions for future webinar topics to peph@niehs.nih.gov.
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