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EPA Webinar: Climate Change Impacts on Children’s Health and Well-being in the Contiguous US
Dr. Lauren Gentile
geographer and
environmental social scientist
Dr. Caitlin Gould
environmental health scientist
In April, the EPA’s Climate Change Division released a report quantifying how five climate change stressors may affect different aspects of children’s health in the contiguous United States. The above EPA staff members provide an overview of some of the results from this study in the video, and they discuss how the agency can better interact with and inform clinicians, parents and caregivers, and children throughout the Commonwealth and beyond.
Webinars
January 2023—General Assembly Legislative Preview, Dr. Bob Kitchen
June 2, 2022—Children’s Fundamental Rights, Health and the Climate Crisis, Our Children's Trust
March 24, 2022—Adding Climate Change to Your Healthcare Practice, Dr. Todd Sack
January 20, 2022—General Assembly Legislative Preview, Dr. Bob Kitchen
November 18, 2021—Electric Rural Cooperatives & Climate Change, Andrea Miller, Karen Campblin, and Seth Heald
October 21, 2021—Mental Health & Climate Change, Drs. Kelsey Hudson and Melissa Marselle
September 22, 2021—Incorporating Climate Health into Medical Education, UVA, Shenandoah, and George Washington University students
August 5, 2021—Climate Change, Heat, and Sports Safety, Dr. Andrew Grundstein
June 10, 2021—Geographical Patterns of Heat Illness in the Rural Southeast U.S and the Factors that Control Its Incidence
May 13, 2021—Climate Change and Pregnancy, Dr. Nathaniel G. DeNicola
April 15, 2021—Climate Change, Pollen Exposure Dynamics, and Burden of Allergic Disease in the Northeast U.S., Dr. Amir Sapkota
March 18, 2021—Climate and Social Injustice, La'Veesha Rollins
February 18, 2021—Medication Disposal, Sustainable Pharmacy Project
January 12, 2021—2021 General Assembly Preview: Climate and Health Priorities, Dr. Bob Kitchen
November 23, 2020—The Health Impacts of Transportation Emissions in the Commonwealth, Dr. Drew Harris
October 29, 2020—High-Value Anesthesia Care and the Social Cost of Carbon, Dr. Matthew J. Meyer
September 17, 2020—Belly of the Beast: Food, Water, and Gastrointestinal Illness in our Changing Climate, Dr. Rebecca Philipsborn
August 6, 2020—The Changing Patterns of Harmful Algal Blooms, Dr. Kimberly Reece
July 2, 2020—The Dangers of Heat Exposure for Outdoor Workers, Drs. Julia Gohlke and Robert Kitchen
June 11, 2020—The Enduring Legacy of Inequitable Heat Exposure in U.S. Cities, Dr. Jeremy Hoffman
CME Instructions
Physicians can claim free CME. For instructions, visit the Inova ICMES site. Nurses can convert these to CEs.
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