Lead Exposures in Children's Environmental Health Webinar

This webinar, hosted by the U.S. EPA, is part of International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week (ILPPW) and will explore how groups like the U.S. Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSUs), state and local governments, and federal inter-agency groups can work to address lead exposures in children, and what can be done at the individual level to keep children safe from lead. Discussion would focus on the potential harms to children from lead exposure, including sources beyond lead-based paint and water, such as ceremonial powders, cookware, spices and cosmetics.

Speakers: 

• Alan Woolf: MD, MPH, FAAP, FACMT, FAACT Co-Director, Pediatric Environmental Health Center, Boston Children's Hospital Co-Director, Region 1 New England Pediatric Environment Health Specialty Unit Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital 
• Katie Fellows: MS, PhD Environmental Scientist Hazardous Waste Management Program Public Health – Seattle & King County 
• Paromita Hore: PhD, MPH Director Environmental Exposure Assessment and Education New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene 
• Warren Friedman: PhD, FAIHA Senior Advisor U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes