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Health Professionals on the Front Lines – Explorations

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Self-select one chapter of choice each from any two sources below:

Books

  • A New War on Cancer: The Unlikely Heroes Revolutionizing Prevention by Kristina Marusic. Island Press.
  • Children and Environmental Toxins: What Everyone Needs to Know by Phil Landrigan. Google E- Book.
  • Environmental Health in Nursing, 2nd Edition (Free E-Book), by Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments.
  • Greening Health Care by Kathy Gerwig. Oxford University Press.
  •  “Pediatric Environmental Health Interactive Curriculum.” by Victoria Leonard.                      Western States PEHSU, Western States PEHSU, 10 Aug. 2022.                                  
  • Raising Healthy Children in a Toxic World: 101 Smart Solutions for Every Family by Phil Landrigan, MD. Low cost used copies available at Abe’s Books.
  • Textbook of Children’s Environmental Health 1st Edition, edited by Phil Landrigan and Ruth A. Etzel. Oxford University Press. Available at lower cost as a Google E-Book.
Self-select two of the various elements listed below:

Long Version Interviews

David Carpenter, MD, Professor of environmental health sciences at the University at Albany, SUNY, where he is the director of the Institute for Health and the Environment.

Mark Mitchell, MD, MPH, Emeritus Professor at George Mason University’s Center for Climate Change Communications, Co-Chair of the Connecticut Equity and Environmental Justice Advisory Council, with the Commissioner of the CT Department of Environmental Protection, Chair of the National Medical Association’s Council on Environmental Health and Climate Change.

Joel Moskowitz, PhD, MPH, Director of the Center for Family and Community Health at the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley.

Raluca Radu, MSN, University of British Columbia, Doctors Without Borders, Canadian Association of Nurses for the Environment

Paul Saoke, MD, Physicians for Social Responsibility – Kenya, director of International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW-Kenya, vice president of the International Society of Doctors for the Environment (ISDE) for Africa.

Barbara Sattler,  MPH , DrPH, Professor, MPH Department at University of San Francisco School of Education, co-founder, Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments.

Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH, Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences and Philip R Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco, Director of the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment, Director of the UCSF Environmental Research and Translation for Health (EaRTH) Center at UCSF.

Articles

  • “Effects of lead, cadmium, and selenium exposures and fish consumptions on cognitive function in older adults”, David Carpenter et al. ISEE Conference Abstract 2022.
  • “Environmental Pollution, Health, and Development: A Lancet –Global Alliance on Health and Pollution–Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Commission.” Landrigan, Philip J., Richard Fuller, and Richard Horton.The Lancet (British Edition), vol. 386, no. 10002, 2015, pp. 1429-1431.
  • “Exposure to Multiple Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances In Relation To Thyroid Function Among Adolescents and Young Adults from NHANES 2011-2012,” Carpenter et. al,  ISEE Conference Abstract.
  • “Exposure to PFAS in two Alaska Native Communities,” By David Carpenter et al. ISEE Conference Abstract, 2022. “The Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health.” Landrigan, Philip J, et al The Lancet,,Elsevier, 19 Oct. 2017 https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2817%2932345-0.

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