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Urban Sustainability Forum: How Polluted Air Affects our Children
Start Date: 9/19/2013Start Time: 5:30 PM
End Date: 9/20/2013End Time: 8:00 PM

Event Description
Join the Academy of Natural Sciences and Moms Clean Air Force for an Urban Sustainability Forum panel discussion on air pollution and children’s health. Traffic pollution, power plant emissions, and chemicals in consumer products and cleaning supplies are among the air pollutants that children breathe every day. In urban environments such as Philadelphia, children may be exposed to high levels of heavy metals, ozone, small particles, and other chemicals that can cause long-term health effects in addition to adversely impacting prenatal and early childhood growth and development, as well as lung function. We will discuss what public health experts know about how polluted air affects children’s health, and we will explore what parents can do to ensure that their children grow up strong and healthy.

•(Introduction) Mike Weilbacher, Executive Director, Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education

•(Moderator) Molly Rauch, MPH, Public Health Policy and Outreach Manager, Moms Clean Air Force

•Evelyn O. Talbott, DrPH, Professor, Dept of Epidemiology, Environmental Epidemiology Program Director in Environmental Public Health Tracking, University of Pittsburgh

•Carla Campbell, MD, MS, Pediatrician and Associate Teaching Professor of Public Health, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Drexel University School of Public Health

•Tyra Bryant-Stephens, MD, Director and Founder, The Community Asthma Prevention Program, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

•Anna Gard, MSN FNP-BC, Health IT and Quality Consultant, Association of Clinicians for the Underserved

For more info: http://publichealth.drexel.edu/Events/Event-Detail/5043/eventid--1576/
To register: https://childrenshealthyair.eventbrite.com/
Contact Information:
Phone: (215) 299-1000
Location:
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway Philadelphia, PA 19103
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  • Alumni
  • Current Students
  • Faculty
  • Parents & Families
  • Public
  • Staff
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