Upcoming workshops and learning opportunities

Posted on Sep 11, 2009 | Comments (1)

See below for information about upcoming workshops and learning opportunities related to green chemistry and environmental health in the San Francisco Bay Area:

Free Webinar: What Does Chemical Contamination Cost Health Care?

New report details how to reduce disease and save billions by overhauling the U.S. chemical management system

January 28, 1:00 pm Eastern

A new report released by Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families outlines the role of chemical contaminants in cancer, asthma, reproductive disorders, and other conditions.  Learn about the report from a co-author and other leading researchers.  Estimates of the proportion of the disease burden that can be attributed to toxic chemical exposures vary, ranging from 1 percent of all disease to 5 percent of childhood cancer, 10 percent of diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, and neurodevelopmental deficits, and 30 percent of childhood asthma.  A conservative estimate puts the health care cost savings attributable to a decline in the incidence of chronic disease due to reductions in chemical exposures at $5 billion per year.  The report illustrates the opportunity to prevent disease and reduce health care expenditures by overhauling the chemical management system in the United States.

Speakers:

Charlotte Brody, RN, National Field Director, Safer Chemicals Healthy Families

Richard Clapp, DSc, MPH, Professor of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health

Ted Schettler, MD, MPH, Science Director of the Science and Environmental Health Network

To register for the webinar, please go to: http://www.practicegreenhealth.org/tools/webinars/calendar/details/547.

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