Join us for this month's webinar. The webinar features presentations and interactive discussions including recent findings and new developments in children’s environmental health.

Topic: Unequal and Unhealthy: How Co-Exposures to Psychosocial and Physical Environmental Stressors Interact to Cause Health Disparities

In this webinar, four distinguished speakers discuss how combined exposure to psychosocial stressors (such as racial discrimination and poverty) and physical environmental factors (such as air pollution, chemicals, diet and allergens) impacts child health and development. Participants will learn: 1) how segregation, poverty and the legacy of racism intersect to create unhealthy environments for children; 2) how the timing of co-exposures to psychosocial stressors and physical environmental factors plays an important role in chronic disease programming; and 3) How lessons from the local level could help determine core principles and other decisions to help protect vulnerable children and their families.

Featured Speakers:

Gail Christopher
W. K. Kellogg Foundation
Presentation Title: Place Matters as a Social Determinant of Health
Presentation Summary: The presentation explores how racial segregations, concentrated poverty and the legacy of structural racism intersect to create unhealthy environments for children, and vulnerable populations. Program interventions and policy changes are highlighted.

Rosalind J. Wright
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Presentation Title: Psychological stress & chronic disease programmings
Presentation Summary: The presentation explores the role of psychosocial stressors and chronic disease programming emphasizing the importance of timing of exposure and co-exposures. It also looks at how stress may contribute to health disparities and underscore the role of socioeconomic status and/or race and ethnicity.

Brenda M. Reyes
Houston Department of Health and Human Services
Presentation Title: Health Departments and the Environmental Protection Agency - A Synergistic Approach to Addressing Social Disparities of Health in the Community
Presentation Summary: How lessons from the local level could help determine core principles and other decisions to help protect vulnerable children and their families.

John Balmes
University of California, Berkeley, and University of California, San Francisco 
Discussion Moderator