Learn More About Children's Environmental Health - PEHSU - Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units

Each month, various PEHSU regions host virtual educational events for a clinical audience, such as Grand Rounds, or informational webinars for families/communities. Occasionally we post events that PEHSU participates in as well. View upcoming events below:

View recordings of some previous webinars on environmental health issues here:

Low-Cost No-Cost Tips to Prevent Chemical and Heavy Metal Exposures When Selecting Toys

Children are uniquely vulnerable to environmental hazards due to their developing bodies and exploratory behaviors, like mouthing objects. Plastic …

Region 3

Lead

Keeping Schools and Children Safe from Lead Exposure

In September 2025, Region 4 PEHSU just hosted a lead education webinar with the Mississippi Early Learning Alliance (MELA) to teach early childcare…

Region 4

Lead

Pre-term Birth and Environmental Influences on Lifelong Health

Each year worldwide 15 million preterm births occur, most without a readily identifiable biologic cause. Preterm birth is a birth outcome that disp…

Region 3

Reproductive Health

Healthy Horizons: Addressing Environmental Health for Children and Adolescents with Disabilities

Healthy Horizons: Addressing Environmental Health for Children with Disabilities provides an overview of the impact of environmental health factors…

Region 3

UW Medicine Webinar: Smokey Air Threatens Children’s Health

In this short video, Dr. Catherine Karr talks about how wildfire smoke can affect a child’s health and describes simple steps for families to take …

Region 10

Air Quality| Extreme Weather

Responding to Benton Harbor: a public health overview of lead exposures

Susan Buchanan, MD, with the UIC School of Public Health and the Great Lakes Center for Reproductive and Children’s Environmental Health offe…

Region 5

Lead

Environmental Health: Risks, Responses, and Resilience

Ruth McDermott-Levy, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, Professor & Co-Director for the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment an…

Region 3

Extreme Weather| PFAS

Events

Contaminants in Imported Candy and Everyday Products

The Race to Research: Plastics, Microplastics, and Human Health

6th Annual Herb Needleman Lecture

Children’s Environmental Health Symposium

Train the Trainer Environmental Health Education

Childhood Obesity and the Environment

View recordings of some previous webinars on environmental health issues here:

Low-Cost No-Cost Tips to Prevent Chemical and Heavy Metal Exposures When Selecting Toys

Keeping Schools and Children Safe from Lead Exposure

Pre-term Birth and Environmental Influences on Lifelong Health

Healthy Horizons: Addressing Environmental Health for Children and Adolescents with Disabilities

UW Medicine Webinar: Smokey Air Threatens Children’s Health

Responding to Benton Harbor: a public health overview of lead exposures

Environmental Health: Risks, Responses, and Resilience

View recordings of some previous grand rounds here:

Where I Live and Breathe: Reflections on How Home Environments Influence Health

PCBs: A Legacy Pollutant

Lead in Consumer Products: Insights from New York City and Massachusetts

Plastics and Children’s Health

Drinking Water from Private Wells: Risks, Barriers, and Environmental Challenge

Heat Index and Health Effects of Extreme Weather