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September 2020
Nurses Inspiring Nurses: Experiences of the ANHE Environmental Health Nurse Fellows Webinar Part 2
Upcoming Webinar Series - Nurses Inspiring Nurses: Experiences of the ANHE Environmental Health Nurse Fellows Webinar Part 2 In 2019, the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments launched the first-of-its-kind Environmental Health Nurse Fellowship program. Funded by the Kresge Foundation, the program focused on environmental health equity and justice, specifically addressing the disproportionate impact of environmental exposures on vulnerable groups. Thirty Nurse Fellows from across the country participated in the historic year-long program. Paired with expert environmental health nurse mentors,…
Find out more »Research Work Group – September Call
A recent study provides some insight into the use of disinfectants during the COVID-19 pandemic; it was released in June 2020. In addition, the PEPH Environmental Health Chat Podcast Series also discusses this topic in a short 6 min audio file. For our next ANHE research working group meeting on September 24th at 3pm, we will hold a journal club where we will discuss this paper, and more critically, how air pollution impacts COVID-19. We would also like to form a writing group that would prepare…
Find out more »NorCal Symposium on Climate and Pandemic Resilience in Health Care
Join med Students from Stanford and University of California San Francisco on September 25th from 9am-5pm EST for a day-long conference on climate change. The symposium will educate and empower health care professionals to enact sustainable healthcare practices at their institutions. The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the vulnerabilities of health care systems in the US to adapt and mobilize resources needed to provide timely, appropriate, and equitable care. Climate change adds stressors such as wildfires, super storms, and heat…
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