Dear Friends,

We at the Center for Children's Environmental Health would like to wish you all Happy Healthy Holidays and express our gratitude for your ongoing support.

Encouraged by the success the COVID-19 vaccine has had this year, we have begun to cautiously reclaim our pre-pandemic lives. We are grateful for the privilege and security the vaccine has provided.

Enthusiastic about the new year, we will continue the important work to protect children's environmental health through research, education and to inform local and national environmental health and justice policy.

Happy Holidays and Healthy Happy New Year!

From all of us at CCCEH
Columbia's Center for
Children's Environmental Health
2021 Year in Review
We are proud to share a summary of the Center's accomplishments this year and want to express our gratitude to our study participants and all our partners for your role in these efforts.

·        Eight scientific publications were published this year.

·        The Center's research informed two key policy developments this year- the Biden administration's plan to regulate PFAS, and the EPA announced its ban of the pesticide chlorpyrifos.

·        Air Pollution and PAHs Report Back session was conducted with our study participants in English and Spanish with our research partners at Oregon State.

·        COTC conducted a Community EHJ Needs Assessment in collaboration with our Community Advisory and Stakeholder Board, CASB, and the CCCEH EHJ Advocates.

·        CCCEH EHJ Advocates participated in Earth Day, developed a Green Recipe Book, participated in the planning and implementation of Moving Forward to Beauty Justice Conference, College Prep, planned and attend weekly meetings.
The Moving Toward Beauty Justice Conference: Conversations for Change was a success with over 95 attendees, including youth, academics, and community members. List of Conference Partners. For Session recordings click on your session(s) of choice.

ACTION LINKS
Have Children 12 and under?

During the holidays share the Children's Make Up and Body Products Survey link with family and friends. Help us reach our goal. THANK YOU!!!
EHS Department and
 Mailman School of Public Health News

Childhood immunizations are one of the success stories of modern medicine. Smallpox was declared eradicated from the world in 1977. Polio was officially eliminated from the United States and the rest of the Western Hemisphere in 1991. (Source: Healthy Children.org History of Immunizations). For personal stories, ask an octogenarian who may recall the miracle of the polio vaccine and the decline of infant mortality and morbidity in their community as childhood vaccination campaigns saved lives in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

The science, historical record, our public health and epidemiological training gives us the confidence to encourage parents to vaccinate their children, ages 5-11, with the COVID-19 vaccine.

For more information please find the links below.








Vaccine Finder

  •  NY Presbyterian
Call: 646-838-0319
 Mon-Fri 9:00 am – 4:45 pm

  • EXCELSIOR PASS- secure, digital proof of COVID-19 vaccination or negative test results.
CONTINUE THESE PREVENTION PRACTICES EVEN AFTER YOU RECEIVE THE VACCINE
We are recruiting:

  • Pregnant women 30 weeks or less

  • Delivering at NYP hospital or Allen Pavilion

Thank you! 
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Environmental Health

Help us create a world in which every child has a healthy start.
 
The Center’s research is powering action to reduce the impacts of climate change, air pollution, and toxic chemicals on children and families.

Your support is yielding both immediate and long-term benefits to children’s health today and in the future. Your gift will protect the gains that we have achieved together.
 
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With Gratitude
Julie Herbstman, PhD
Director, Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health

Frederica P. Perera, DrPH, PhD
Director of Translational Research and Founding Director
Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health

Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health