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Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments

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Welcome! Our website is the home of the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (ANHE) and is THE place for nurses to gather essential environmental health information, connect with other nurses, and join in the activities of ANHE. Explore our communities (how topic areas are arranged) and start making positive changes!.

eTextbook

Are you new to environmental health or looking to expand your knowledge? Are you a nursing educator or researcher? Our eTextbook provides the latest Environmental Health information – peer-reviewed and written by experts.

Life Cycles

Environmental exposures can have different health impacts across the lifecycle. Discover how environmental exposures can impact human health across the lifecycle – from prenatal through old age.

Hazards

An A-Z resource on environmental hazards andhuman health effects, and tools for assessing exposures.

E-PubHub

Compendium of environmental health articles written by nurses.

Resources

Your one stop shop for environmental health assessment tools, handouts, presentations, videos, and more

Research

Here’s where nursing researchers can connect with each other, discover current focus areas in environmental health nursing research, stay abreast of funding opportunities, and participate in the research workgroup of ANHE. (more…)

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Latest events

Stroller Brigade in Support of Safer Chemicals
9:30, 22 May 2012

Please join us for this big event to show Congress that whether you’re a nurse, young adult, parent, or cancer survivor, we’re demanding action on toxic chemicals.

Environmental Health 101
10:00, 29 May 2012

This webinar will cover environmental health principles that practicing nurses can both integrate into patient care and utilize to create healthier, safer work environments.

Latest blog posts

APHA and CDC invite you to a webinar on: Climate Change: Mastering the Public Health Role

Robyn Gilden

May 8, 2012 by Robyn Gilden Comments (0)

apha, cdc, climate change, webinar

taking action, resources

APHA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are pleased to continue the webinar series Climate Ch

LATEST FINDINGS Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health: Prenatal Exposure to the Insecticide Chlorpyrifos Linked to Alterations in Brain Structure and Cognition

Robyn Gilden

May 8, 2012 by Robyn Gilden Comments (0)

chlorpyrifos, iq, prenatal exposure, pesticide

research, anhe

--While chlorpyrifos is no longer registered for household use in the U.S., it continues to be widely used around the

Join us on May 22 for a Safe Chemicals Brigade in Washington DC

Katie Huffling

May 8, 2012 by Katie Huffling Comments (1)

chemical policy reform, safe chemicals act of 2011, tsca

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Happy Earth Day!

Katie Huffling

April 20, 2012 by Katie Huffling Comments (0)

earth day

Take the first of many steps to living and working more sustainably

In honor of Earth Day 2012, the Allianc

Participate in ANHE Work Groups

Education ~ Practice ~ Research ~ Policy/Advocacy

Nurses & Earth Day

Take the first of many steps to living and working more sustainably

Register Now!

Register now to start engaging with other nurses interested in environmental health here on ANHE's website. Once you register you can join our communities, create your profile so other nurses can connect with you, comment on posts, and more.

Video: Why Should Nurses Care About Environmental Health?

Featured communities

open community / 15 members

Climate Change and Health

Provides an overview of climate change, explores health implications and provides an opportunity for advocacy on cimate change issues.

open community / 24 members

Vulnerable Populations

Biological, social, and behavioral factors that make humans, across the life span, more vulnerable to poor health outcomes from environmental stressors.