PEPH Webinars

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
Extreme Events, Environmental Health, and the Elderly Among the factors affecting older populations are lifelong exposures to numerous potentially toxic chemicals; co-morbidities affecting health resilience and disease susceptibility; and social conditions such as poverty, isolation, acculturation, and English-language proficiency. This webinar will focus on the effects of environmental and sociocultural factors on specific aging subpopulations, with a particular focus on the effects of extreme events.	Aging	09/15/2017
Community-Based Air Monitoring With the advent of smaller, low-cost sensors, residents have become increasingly engaged in monitoring the air quality in their neighborhoods so as to understand and reduce potential health risks. This webinar will highlight two community-based air monitoring projects. The presenters will discuss their approaches, the benefits of those approaches, and future opportunities.	Air Pollution	08/24/2017
STEM Education and Environmental Health This webinar highlighted different approaches to working with teachers to engage students on environmental health topics. Two presentations focused on hands-on tools and resources that teachers can use in the classroom, and the third presentation described the value and impact of workshops that strengthen teachers' capacity to address environmental health with their students.	Education	07/26/2017
Windows of Susceptibility This webinar focused on (1) the impact of exposure on the methylome and (2) normal breast tissue biomarkers of environmental exposure.	Windows of Susceptibility	03/08/2017
Neurodevelopment and Children's Environmental Health NIEHS supports a robust research program looking at environmental contributions to brain health in children. This webinar focused on current research findings and their relevance to environmental public health.	Children's Health	10/14/2016
Green Spaces and Health This webinar discussed recent research showing that higher levels of green vegetation are associated with decreased mortality and that neighborhood greenery decreases aggressive behavior in adolescents.	Green Spaces	09/26/2016
Climate Change and Health This webinar featured a discussion by climate change experts on new tools and approaches for enhancing both individual and community resilience.	Climate Change	06/30/2016
The Complexity of Communicating Risk in the Context of Fish Consumption This webinar highlighted three researchers who are exploring the challenge of communicating risk about eating fish from waters known to contain high levels of pollutants while simultaneously conveying the benefits of fish consumption for human health.	Communication	06/16/2016
Urban Gardening The speakers in this webinar hightlighted some of the possible environmental exposures facing urban gardeners and outlined steps for reducing or preventing those exposures.	Urban Gardening	05/26/2016
Healthy Homes In this webinar, we heard from three groups that have been working on healthy homes issues for over a decade as part of their efforts within NIEHS-funded Centers programs.	Healthy Homes	02/04/2016
Meet the Editors In this webinar, three journal editors presented some general ideas about what it takes to get an article published, styles and formats appropriate for environmental public health, and the possibility of special issues and supplements.	Communication	12/14/2015
Grants Management for Community Organizations This webinar provided some tips and guidance for community organizations trying to navigate the policies and regulations related to NIEHS grants.	Grants Management	10/23/2015
Tribal Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Its Value for Environmental Health Sciences This webinar included an overview of TEK, as well as presentations about (a) how it is used to understand the relationship between toxic exposures, health, and the environment in the Arctic and (b) the development of Indigenous Health Indicators that reflect a holistic view of health held by tribal communities.	Tribal Ecological Knowledge	06/22/2015
Diet, Nutrition, and Environmental Public Health This webinar featured two researchers who have been examining the interplay between diet and environmental exposures and how that may influence health outcomes.	Nutrition	05/28/2015
Citizen Science This webinar included presentations on examples of how citizen science is successfully incorporated into research and resources available to conduct citizen science projects.	Citizen Science	03/24/2015
Risk Communication: Addressing the Needs of Your Community This webinar features two investigators from the NIEHS-funded Deepwater Horizon Research Consortium who have developed communication approaches for at-risk populations in the context of disaster events. They discussed approaches for building trust and respect with research partners, creating culturally sensitive communications, and delivering actionable risk messages to individuals and communities.	Community Engagement	03/20/2015
Public Health Disaster Research Response This webinar discussed the current Public Health Disaster Research Response (DR2) and Science Preparedness efforts to help respond to the need for timely research during emergencies.	Emergency Response	09/19/2014
Environmental Health Literacy: The Evolution of a New Field This webinar featured two recognized experts who highlighted the relationship between health literacy and improved health outcomes, as well as how other fields contribute to environmental health literacy research.	Community Engagement	06/24/2014
Microbes, the Environment, and You This webinar featured talks from two researchers who are using model systems to investigate how the microbiome responds to environmental exposures, as well as its relationship to environmentally induced disease states.	The Microbiome	05/21/2014
The Costs and Benefits of Preventing Lead Exposure: Putting Economics into the Picture This webinar reviewed the socioeconomic costs of lead exposure and identified an economically viable lead-abatement strategy at the community level.	Lead Exposure	05/07/2014
Assessing Population Vulnerability to Health Impacts of Climate Change This webinar discussed how health risks from climate change differ, based on demographic and socioeconomic variables.	Climate Change	04/25/2014
Residents, Responders, and Resilience This webinar discussed various facets of resilience, including the interaction of individual and community resilience, the role of longstanding socioeconomic disparities, and the importance of networking and capacity building.	Community Engagement	02/25/2014
Alternative Models in Environmental Health Research: Improving Science and Reducing, Refining, or Replacing Animal Testing This webinar highlighted some examples of the use of these alternative models in environmental health research.	Research Methods	01/23/2014

For information regarding PEPH webinars held prior to January 2014, please see the “Past Events” section of the Events page.

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