Pediatric Environmental Health Radio

Alan Woolf, MD, MPH, FAAP, FACMT, FAACT discusses water quality and children's health in this episode of Pediatric Environmental Health Radio. Dr. Alan Woolf is Co-Director of the Pediatric Environmental Health Center at Boston Children’s Hospital and its Pediatric Environmental Health Fellowship Training Program and Co-Director of the Region 1 New England Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit. He is a Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Woolf is a past-president of both the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology (AACT) and the American Association of Poison Control Centers. Dr. Woolf has published extensively on childhood poisonings, poisoning prevention and toxic reactions to heavy metals. He is the Medical Editor of two books: The Children’s Hospital Guide to Your Child’s Health and Development and most recently: The History of Modern Clinical Toxicology (Elsevier 2022).

PEHSU Resources

New England Region 1 PEHSU: https://pehsu.net/region-profile/pehsu-region-1/

Find Your PEHSU Expert: https://pehsu.net/your-regional-pehsu/

Water Quality for Health Professionals: https://pehsu.net/health-issue/water-quality-for-health-professionals/

Water Quality for Families & Communities: https://pehsu.net/health-issue/water-quality-for-families-communities/

Other Resources

Private Well Class, UIC: https://privatewellclass.org/

Drinking Water From Private Wells and Risks to Children (Publication from Dr. Woolf): https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/151/2/e2022060644/190540/Drinking-Water-From-Private-Wells-and-Risks-to?autologincheck=redirected

Mark Anderson, MD, FAAP, discusses childhood, asthma, lead, and community partnership in this episode of Pediatric Environmental Health Radio. Dr. Anderson is a retired pediatrician from Denver Health in Denver, Colorado and a former associate professor of pediatrics and public health at the University of Colorado. Dr Anderson specializes in issues relevant to children’s environmental health, such as asthma, water quality and soil quality. He also serves as the outgoing Director of the Pediatric Environmental Health specialty unit (PEHSU) for Region 8 covering the states of Colorado, Montana, North and South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming.

Resources:

• Region 8 PEHSU: https://pehsu.net/region-profile/pehsu-region-8/

• About soilSHOP: https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/soilshop/about/index.html

• Home visits for pediatric asthma: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32144077/

What can you do to protect your health and your baby’s health in utero from environmental hazards? How can you support a pregnant loved one to stay safe and healthy during pregnancy?

In this podcast episode, we talk about how to have a healthy pregnancy with Dr. Abby Mutic (Director of the Southeast (Region 4) PEHSU) and Dr. Susan Buchanan (Director of the Great Lakes Center for Children’s and Reproductive Environmental Health (Region 5 PEHSU). They discuss environmental hazards like chemicals in cleaning products and VOCs in furniture, what to consider when painting a nursery, myths about the placenta, and more.

For resources go to pehsu.net.

What can you do to protect your health and your baby's health in utero from environmental hazards? How can you support a pregnant loved one to stay safe and health during pregnancy?

In this podcast episode, we talk about how to have a healthy pregnancy with Dr. Abby Mutic (Director of the Southeast (Region 4) PEHSU) and Dr. Susan Buchanan (Director of the Great Lakes Center for Children’s and Reproductive Environmental Health (Region 5 PEHSU). They discuss environmental hazards like chemicals in cleaning products and VOCs in furniture, and discuss things to consider when painting a nursery, myths about the placenta, and more.

To view resources visit https://pehsu.net/childrens-environmental-health/blog/

Gina Solmon, MD, MPH is the Principal Investigator for the Western States Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit and the Chief of the Division of Occupational, Environmental and Climate Medicine at UCSF. In her role at UCSF, she oversees clinical occupational and environmental health at UCSF Health, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and the San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center. She is also the Program Director of the UCSF Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency program, teaches medical and nursing students, and leads the research efforts in the Division. Before coming to UCSF, Dr. Solomon founded and directed the Achieving Resilient Communities program at the Public Health Institute, where she worked from 2018-2023. From 2012-2018 she was appointed by Governor Brown as the Deputy Secretary for Science and Health at the California Environmental Protection Agency. Dr. Solomon previously served as the director of the occupational and environmental medicine residency program at UCSF from 2008-2012, the associate director of the UCSF Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit from 2003-2009, and as a Senior Scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) from 1996-2012.

Resources:

• Questions from California residents or other Region 9 residents can be directed to [email protected] or 866-827-3478. Their website is wspehsu.ucsf.edu.

• Access PEHSU Wildfire Resources: https://bit.ly/wildfirepehsu

• Find Your PEHSU Expert: https://www.pehsu.net/findhelp/

• Recommend Air Quality Resource: Airnow.gov

• American Red Cross: Cleaning Up After a Fire

• Mark Miller MD, MPH is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). He is also the Director Emeritus of the Western States Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (WSPEHSU) at UCSF lead for the National PEHSU Childhood Cancer and the Environment Program. He was the director of the Community Outreach and Translation Core of the Center for Integrative Research on Childhood Leukemia and the Environment at UC Berkeley (CIRCLE). He received his medical degree and completed a Pediatric residency at Michigan State University. He received his Masters in Public Health in Environmental Health Sciences from UC Berkeley and completed a residency with the California Department of Health Services in Preventive Medicine. Erica Guerrero, MS, MPAS, PA-C, is a PA (Physician Assistant) in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Texas Tech Health Sciences Center El Paso. Erica began working with the Southwest Center for Pediatric Environmental Health (SWCPEH) in 2018 as a principal collaborator. The opportunity to work with SWCPEH has sparked a deeper interest in issues related to pediatric environmental health. Additionally, she is passionate about environmental health and health issues along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Resources:

• View the Childhood Cancer and the Environment home page.

• View the Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit.

• View the Childhood Cancer & the Environment flipbook in English, and in Español.

• Childhood Cancer & the Environment Factsheet in English, and in Español.

• Find Your PEHSU Expert: https://www.pehsu.net/findhelp/

Marissa Hauptman, MD, MPH, FAAP is the Co-Director of Region 1 New England Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU); Co-Director of the Pediatric Environmental Health Center; a Pediatrician for Children's Hospital Primary Care Center (CHPCC) and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Nick Newman, DO, MS, FAAP is the Medical Director of the Pediatric Environmental Health and Lead Clinic at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Environmental & Public Health Sciences at the University of Cincinnati. He is the Satellite Director for the PEHSU Network, based out of Region 5.

Resources:

• For more info from PEHSU Region 5, call 513-803-3688 or visit childrensenviro.uic.edu.

• For more info from PEHSU Region 1 visit childrenshospital.org/pehc.

• Find Your PEHSU Expert: https://www.pehsu.net/findhelp/

• Resources for Lead Exposures: https://childrensenviro.uic.edu/environmental-exposures/lead-exposures/

• What is Lead Poisoning? https://www.childrenshospital.org/conditions/lead-poisoning

• Responding to Benton Harbor: a public health overview of lead exposures https://childrensenviro.uic.edu/environmental-exposures/lead-exposures/#responding-to-benton-harbor-a-public-health-overview-of-lead-exposures

• LeadRx Massachusetts Edition: https://www.childrenshospital.org/sites/default/files/2024-10/pehc-lead-rx-mass-overview-english.pdf