The Alaska Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE-Alaska) is a working group of the national Collaborative on Health and the Environment. We hold monthly one-hour teleconference seminars to advance knowledge and effective action to address growing concerns about the links between human health and environmental factors. Our speakers include scientists, health care professionals, policy experts, and community activists who are working on a range of environmental health concerns. Click on the title of any of the calls listed below to go to the call webpage and listen to the recording.
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2016 CHE-Alaska Podcasts:
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- Speakers:
- Elise Miller, Director, Collaborative on Health and the Environment
- Vi Waghiyi, Environmental Health and Justice Program Director, Alaska Community Action on Toxics
- Pam Miller, Executive Director, Alaska Community Action on Toxics
- Presentation Slides (PDF)
10/26/16 Endocrine Disruption at the Top of the World: State of the Science and a Message from Alaska
- Speaker: Carol Kwiatkowski, PhD, Executive Director, The Endocrine Disruption Exchange (TEDX)
- Presentation Slides (PDF)
- Recording (MP3)
- Speakers:
- Eve Gartner, Staff Attorney with Earthjustice
- Ansje Miller, Eastern States Director of the Center for Environmental Health
- Mark Mitchell, MD, Co-chair of the Environmental Health Task Force of the National Medical Association
- Presentation Slides (PDF)
- Recording (MP3)
08/24/2016 Ensuring a Healthy Environment for All Children: the Need for Research, Policy, and Urgent Action
- Speaker: Nsedu Obot Witherspoon, MPH, executive director, Children’s Environmental Health Network (CEHN)
- Presentation Slides (PDF)
- Recording (MP3)
07/20/2016 Protecting Alaska’s Children from Neurodevelopmental Harm: Project TENDR’s New Consensus Statement on the Environmental Chemicals Contributing to Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
- Speakers: Project TENDR co-chairs
- Maureen Swanson, Director, Healthy Children Project, Learning Disabilities Association of America
- Irva Hertz-Picciotto, MPH, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, UC Davis MIND Institute.
- Presentation Slides (PDF)
- Recording (MP3)
- Speakers:
- Kendra Zamzow, PhD, Center for Science in Public Participation
- Rochelle Diver, International Indian Treaty Council
- Rochelle Diver presentation slides (PDF)
- Kendra Zamzow presentation slides (PDF)
- Recording (MP3)
05/11/2016 From Appalachia to Alaska: Coal Development & the Environmental Justice Movement
- Speakers:
- Shannon Elizabeth Bell, PhD, University of Kentucky
- Carly Wier, Coal Campaign Director, Cook Inletkeeper
- Shannon Elizabeth Bell presentation slides (PDF)
- Carly Wier presentation slides (PDF)
- Recording (MP3)
04/27/2016 The Ecology of Breast Cancer: Opportunities for Prevention
- Speaker: Ted Schettler, MD, MPH
- Ted Schettler presentation slides (PDF)
- Recording (MP3)
04/06/2016 Toxic Safety: Flame Retardants, Chemical Controversies, and Environmental Health
- Speakers:
- Alissa Cordner, PhD
- Pamela K. Miller (Executive Director, Alaska Community Action on Toxics)
- Alissa Cordner presentation slides (PDF)
- Recording (MP3)
- Speaker:
- Bruce Lanphear, MD, MPH, Senior Scientist at the Child & Family Research Institute, BC Children’s Hospital and Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia
02/24/2016 Toxic Chemicals in Our Homes: Sources, Health Effects, and How You Can Support Safer Chemicals Policies
- Speakers:
- Veena Singla (Staff Scientist, Natural Resources Defense Council)
- Sarah Doll (National Director, SAFER States)
- Pamela K. Miller (Executive Director, Alaska Community Action on Toxics)
- Veena Singla presentation slides (PDF)
- Sarah Doll presentation slides (PDF)
- Recording (MP3)
01/13/2016 Chemicals without Harm: A Conversation about Safer Alternatives with Ken Geiser
- Speaker: Ken Geiser
- Ken Geiser presentation slides (PDF)
- Recording (MP3)