Dear Friends,

We are excited to share with you what's new at the Center and to keep forever present the work of environmental justice.

The train derailment and environmental tragedy in the community of East Palestine, Ohio, reminds us that there are no shortcuts in protecting and ensuring the health and environmental justice of our children. We always have to keep an eye on the policy, regulation, and enforcement of laws concerning toxic chemicals across all industries.

We are grateful for your support and that of our study participants, through our col-labor-ation we work to safeguard our children's environmental health. We would also like to recognize our community partners committed to amplifying community voices and protecting children's health and environmental justice.

Thank you and Adelante!

*In solidarity with Ukraine

CCCEH & EHS in the News

Credit: Victoria St. Martin

Inside Climate News

Justice

The ‘Environmental Injustice of Beauty’: The Role That Pressure to Conform Plays In Use of Harmful Hair, Skin Products Among Women of Color

A new study cites “growing public health concern” around the way that racialized notions of beauty drive women of color to use hazardous hair relaxers, skin lighteners. By Victoria St. Martin, Feb. 27, 2022

Credit: Javier Jaén

New York Times Many Personal Care Products Contain Toxic Chemicals. Here's What to Do About it. Take small steps to lower exposure, Feb 24, 2023, by Knvul Sheikh

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New York Post, Too Many Kids Use Extremely Toxic Toy Cosmetics: Public Health Experts, January 27, 2023, Brooke Kato

Early Learn Nation, The Independent Magazine devoted to Early Learning

Book Review: Children’s Health and The Peril of Climate Change

Mark Swartz, Book Review, February 7, 2023

An Environmental Health Scientist’s Recipe for Giving the Next Generation a Safe Future

By Mark Swartz Conversations, February 7, 2023

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CCCEH

Community Outreach & Translation Core (COTC)

CCCEH's Youth Council the EHJ Advocates steering committee met to plan community activities and discuss their career goals.

The group worked on resume writing and helped each other with revisions highlighting their skills and knowledge and how to present these in professional platforms such as LinkedIn.

Sanna Alas (CASB member) and Yasmin Isari, Columbia University medical student members of the Brown Scholars Primary Care Program organized the healthy eating challenge.

Medical students prepared nutritious, patient centered meals. Quincy Wise, CCCEH Youth Council, EHJ Advocate, participated as a tasting judge. Healthy cooking conversations included avoiding chemicals such as BPA, pesticides, and the impact of climate change on our food supply.

Our appetites are warmed by the holistic approach to health embraced by our future doctors.

Workshops held with our CASB members include, Gregorio Luperon High School, the Dominican Women's Development Center early childhood program, Mama Tingo, PS 189, and Leave It Better at MS 331.

More than 267 individuals participated. Sessions included discussions on the Center's research, BPA, lead, carbon monoxide, air pollution and the recent train derailment in New Palestine, Ohio.

We are grateful to our study participants as these educational sessions are a product of their research collaboration.

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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.

We hope you will make a tax-free gift donation to the Center in order to continue this important work. 

With Gratitude