We need to find definitive answers about the relationship between toxic chemicals and health so we can protect our children, now and in the future.
Philip Landrigan, M.D.
Chairman of Mount Sinai's Department of Community and Preventive Medicine
Today's children are subject to a whole host of diseases that come from toxic environments. These can include some of the following:
The mission of the Children’s Environmental Health Center is to protect children against environmental threats to health.The CEH Center accomplishes this by guiding, supporting, and building the programs of the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine of Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Mount Sinai’s Department of Community and Preventive Medicine is renowned for its work in children’s environmental health, occupational medicine, epidemiologic research, and disease prevention. Department Chair Dr. Philip Landrigan and his team of medical researchers are uniquely qualified to identify environmental hazards and protect the health of our children.
Dr. Landrigan is an international leader in public health and preventive medicine. His research helped catalyze the U.S. government’s phase-out of lead from gasoline and paint beginning in 1976. Dr. Landrigan chaired a National Academy of Sciences Committee on Pesticides and Children’s Health, whose report secured passage of the major federal pesticide law in the United States, the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996. This is the first federal environmental law to contain specific protections for infants and children. His work as Senior Advisor to the Environmental Protection Agency was instrumental in helping to establish the EPA’s Office of Children’s Health Protection.
For more information, please contact us at (212) 241-6145.
Toxic toys, Plastics & Playgrounds: Everyday Exposures and Our Children's Health
Presented: Thursday, December 6, 2007 (10 A.M - 12:00 P.M.)
Lead in Toys, presented by Philip J. Landrigan, M.D., M.Sc., D.I.H., Professor & Chair, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
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Part II
Synthetic Turf, presented by Joel Forman, M.D., Associate Professor, Department Community and Preventive Medicine, Associate Professor and Vice-Chair for Education Department of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Abstract | Complete Presentation
Part I
Part II
Plastics Exposure in Childhood, presented by Maida Galvez, M.D., M.P.H., Assistant Professor, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine and Pediatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Abstract | Complete Presentation
The following are projects currently being conducted by the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine:
We invite you to contact us to learn more about the links between environmental hazards and disease:
The Mount Sinai Children’s Environmental Health Center supports initiatives in promising research areas, sustains programs to educate the next generation of medical students and pediatricians about preventable environmental hazards, and supports efforts to communicate with families, policy makers, and the American public the importance of protecting children from environmental threats to health. To make a donation, or become involved in the work of the Center, please contact us.
The Mount Sinai Medical Center
Children’s Environmental Health Center
One Gustave Levy Place, Box 1049
New York, NY 10029-6574
Tel: (212) 241-6145
E-mail: info@cehcenter.org