About CHE-Alaska
Scientific evidence increasingly indicates a relationship between a range of environmental factors and a wide array of chronic diseases and conditions. The Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE) is an international partnership of individuals and organizations committed to addressing environmental impacts on human health across the lifespan.
CHE-Alaska is a working group of CHE established by ACAT. We hold monthly teleconference seminars and other events 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. Join our CHE-Alaska email list to be notified of upcoming CHE-Alaska calls and events. Already an ACAT supporter? Update your ACAT email preferences here.
CHE-Alaska Podcasts & Webinars:
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9/29/2021 – TBA
- Speakers
- Dr. Samarys Seguinot-Medina, Environmental Health Director at Alaska Community Action on Toxics
- Speakers
- Dr. Sonia Nagorski, Associate Professor of Geology, University of Alaska Southeast
- Pamela Miller, Executive Director of Alaska Community Action on Toxics and Co-Chair of IPEN (International Pollutant Elimination Network)
- Speakers:
- Veronica Padula, Academic Program Director, Bering Sea Campus and Research Center at Aleut Community of St. Paul Island
- Speakers:
- Erika Schrader, Science Director at Toxic-Free Future
- Amina Salamova, PhD Associate Scientist at O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
- Sheela Sathyanarayana MD, MPH (Invited), Attending Physician at Seattle Children’s Hospital & Adjunct Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington
5/26/2021 – Mercury, Fish, and Public Health Concerns: The Proposed Donlin Gold Mine
- Speakers:
- Gloria Simeon of Bethel is an ONC tribal member and on the Board of Directors for the Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation.
- Dr. Kendra Zamzow is an environmental biogeochemist and the Alaska representative for the Center for Science in Public Participation (CSP2).
- Dr. David Carpenter is director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the University at Albany and specializes in the human health effects of environmental contaminants, including metals and organic compounds.
4/28/2021 – Protecting Your Child’s Health: Expert Answers to Urgent Environmental Questions with Dr. Ruth Etzel
- Speaker:
- Dr. Ruth Etzel, M.D., Ph.D., Pediatrician/Professor at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
- Speakers
- Dr. Jodi Flaws, lead author of this report, is a professor of comparative biosciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. The Flaws Laboratory team researches the genetic and environmental factors that affect the female reproductive system.
- Dr. Laura Vandenberg is an Associate Professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst’s School of Public Health and Health Sciences with research focused on the effects of chemical exposures during early life stages on health later in life.
2/24/2021 – Promoting Equity and Health: A Model from an Indigenous-led Marine-Science Laboratory
- Speaker
- Dr. Max Liboiron directs CLEAR (Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research), anIndigenous-led, marine plastic pollution laboratory and is an Assistant Professor of Geography at Memorial University in Newfoundland and Labrador.
1/27/2021 – Promoting a Culture of Health through Racial Healing and Transformation
- Speaker
- Dr. Gail Christopher, Executive Director of the National Collaborative for Health Equity, Founder of the Ntainu Childrens Garden Center for Healing & Nature, and former Senior Advisor and Vice President to the W.K. Kellogg Foundation
12/2/2020 – Adverse effects of PFAS on Immune System Health: Complicating recovery during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Speaker
- Dr. Philippe Grandjean, Head of the Environmental Medicine Research Unit at the University of Southern Denmark and adjunct professor of environmental health at the Harvard School of Public Health
1o/28/2020 – Protecting Children’s Environmental Health While Re-opening Schools: Recommendations from the Healthy Schools Network
- Speaker
- Claire Barnett, MBA, Executive Director of the Healthy School Network
- Speakers
- Alannah Hurley, Executive Director of the United Tribes of Bristol Bay
- Dr. Cameron Wobus, Senior Scientist at Lynker Tech with specialties in geomorphology, hydrology, and climate science
- Speaker
- Jeff Lowenfels, journalist and author on organic gardening and soil ecology
6/24/2020 Cancer-causing Consumer Products: Your Right-to-Know and Necessary Actions to Prevent Harm
- Speaker
- Stacy Malkan, author, journalist, and co-founder and co-director of US Right To Know
4/29/2020 More Harm than Good: New Science, Legal Actions, and Policy on Oil Spill Dispersants
- Speakers
- Claudia Polsky JD, the founding Director of the Environmental Law Clinic at UC Berkeley
- Rosemary Ahtuangaruak, an Inupiat scholar, health professional and former mayor of Nuiqsut
- Speakers
- Birgit Hagedorn, Environmental Geochemist and owner of Sustainable Earth Research
- Allison Dunbar and Gabe DeGange, Owners of Far North Fungi
- Jacqueline Summers, Business Consultant at Paxaro Solutions and Sustainable Earth Research
- Speakers:
- Dr. Arlene Blum, Executive Director, Green Science Policy Instituteand Research Associate in Chemistry at UC Berkeley
- Robert Bilott, Environmental Attorney and Author of the book Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer’s Twenty-Year Battle Against DuPont
- Pam Miller, Executive Director, Alaska Community Action on Toxics and Co-Chair, International POPs Elimination Network (IPEN)
- Speakers:
- Dr. Elizabeth Hoover, Associate Professor of American Studies at Brown University
- Vi Waghiyi, Environmental Health and Justice Program Director, Alaska Community Action on Toxics
- Speakers:
- Dr. Linda Birnbaum
- Vi Waghiyi, Environmental Health and Justice Program Director, Alaska Community Action on Toxics
- Speakers:
- Diana DeFazio, Environmental Health Program Coordinator, Alaska Community Action on Toxics
- Kelly McLaughlin, Chair, Gustavus PFAS Action Coalition (GPAC)
- Paul Liedberg, Dillingham Resident
08/28/2019 From Breast Cancer Awareness to Action: Rethink the Pink
- Speakers:
- Karuna Jaggar, Executive Director, Breast Cancer Action
- Yamini Ranchod, Board Member, Breast Cancer Action
- Speakers:
- Pamela Miller, Executive Director, Alaska Community Action on Toxics and Co-Chair, International POPs Elimination Network (IPEN)
- Samarys Seguinot-Medina, DrPH, MSEM, Environmental Health Program Director, Alaska Community Action on Toxics
- Vi Waghiyi, Environmental Health and Justice Program Director, Alaska Community Action on Toxics
- Speakers:
- Alissa Cordner, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Whitman College
- Katie Pelch, PhD, Senior Scientist, The Endocrine Disruption Exchange
- Anna Reade, PhD, Staff Scientist, Natural Resources Defense Council
- Laurel Schaider, PhD, Research Scientist, Silent Spring Institute
03/27/2019 Exploitation by Exposure: Human Rights and Toxic Exposures
- Speaker:
- Baskut Tuncak, United Nations Special Rapporteur on hazardous substances and wastes (i.e. toxics)
- Speakers
- Kate Hoffman, Assistant Research Professor, Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment
- Jeff Gearhart, Research Director, HealthyStuff.org, Ecology Center
- Speakers
- Lee Bell, Mercury Policy Advisor, International POPs Elimination Network (IPEN) and Principal Investigator of the study
- Pamela Miller, Executive Director, ACAT and IPEN Co-Chair
- Erika Apatiki, Community Health Researcher, Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska