The Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment (MACCHE) invites you to an upcoming webinar.
Date: Sept 24, 2025
Time: 12 noon ET
Presenter: Michelle Kelly, PhD, CRNP, CNE, FAANP, FAAN – Professor at Villanova University’s M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing and Co-Director of the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment
Each year worldwide 15 million preterm births occur, most without a readily identifiable biologic cause. Preterm birth is a birth outcome that disproportionately affects communities and families affected by poverty and environmental disadvantage. Heat waves and extreme temperatures significantly increase the incidence of preterm birth. However, issues of prematurity are not confined to infancy or even childhood. Chronic non-communicable conditions such as hypertension, diabetes and reduced pulmonary function occur earlier in adolescents and young adults born preterm. Exposure to ambient air pollution and other environmental toxins exacerbate these conditions for people born preterm. And the cycle continues.
To learn more and to register, click here.
Webinar participants who complete the evaluation and obtain an 80% or higher on the course post-test will receive a certificate for 1 nursing contact hour.