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Great Lakes Center for Reproductive and Children’s Environmental Health

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Guides for investigating and addressing environmental exposures

  • Railroad tracks lead toward a factory that is emitting smoke into the air.
    Environmental contamination guide
    For communities investigating environmental exposures at the neighborhood level.
  • A teacher reads a book and asks questions of students seated on the floor in front of her.
    Successful school environmental health programs
    Examining success stories in integrated pest management, indoor air quality and chemicals management.
  • A child of Hispanic or Latino descent smiles while sitting at a table.
    Steps to reduce exposures in the home
    A guide to addressing BPA, mold, pesticides, and lead in the home.
  • Lead paint flecks off of a windowsill.
    Creating the healthiest nation: health and housing
    Examines how structural racism drives the connection between housing, health outcomes and health equity.
  • A mother holds up her infant daughter as she toddles along a beach.
    America's children and the environment
    An EPA report summarizing present data and providing national children’s environmental health indicators.
  • A series of smokestacks lines a skyline.
    Video: introduction to environmental exposures
    With the Center's Beth Neary

Environmental Exposure Resources

  • Ammonia

    • Ammonia fact sheet
    • Hoja de datos de amoniaco
  • Arsenic

    • Understanding lead and arsenic exposures
  • Ethylene oxide

    • Ethylene oxide fact sheet
    • Hoja informativa sobre óxido de etileno
  • Lead exposures

    • Lead exposure guide for prenatal providers
    • Understanding lead and arsenic exposures
    • Managing lead exposure in pregnant/lactating women
    • Lead screening during pregnancy and lactation
    • Lead-safe toolkit for home-based child care
    • Video: public health overview of Benton Harbor's lead crisis
    • Exposiciones a plomo y arsénico
  • Marijuana

    • Marijuana fact sheet
    • Hoja informativa sobre la marihuana
  • Quaternary ammonium for disinfection

    • Quaternary ammonium fact sheet
    • Hoja de datos de amonio cuaternario
  • Recursos en Español

    • hoja informativa sobre desinfectantes más seguros
    • CDC - Asma - Información básica
    • CDC - Moho - Datos básicos sobre el moho (hongos)
    • US EPA- Lead Spanish Información sobre el plomo _
    • CDC- es_tfacts13- Lead FAQs en Espanol
    • CDC Haga Con frecuencia Preguntas- Carbon Monoxide Spanish
    • EPA asthma_fact_sheet_spanish_05_2016
    • EPA Carbon Monoxide Spanish- Monóxido de carbono _ US EPA
    • EPA Mercury- Spanish Información básica sobre el mercurio _ US EPA
    • EPA Mold Guide- Spanish- Una breve guía para el Moho, la Humedad y su Hogar
    • EPA Spanish Mold infographic
    • Guide for Communities- Guía para comunidades
    • Steps to resude exposures in the home- Pasos para reducir las exposiciones en el hogar
    • CDC ToxFAQsTM_ Mercury (Quicksilver) (Mercury) _ ToxFAQ _ ATSDR Mercury CDC
  • PFAS

    • PFAS Video- Featuring Dr. Nicholas Newman- PFAS Doc's Perspective
    • PFAS Video- Featuring Dr. Nicholas Newman- PFAS Questions
  • Mercury in Fish

    • Fish Intervention Study for Health
    • https://childrensenviro.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/812/2021/09/CDC-ToxFAQsTM_-Mercury-Quicksilver-Mercury-_-ToxFAQ-_-ATSDR-Mercury-CDC.pdf
  • Healthy Eating Video Series

    • How to Safely Wash Produce in the Time of COVID
    • How to Navigate the Dirty Dozen
    • How to Prevent Salmonella
    • Climate Change and Eating Less Meat
    • Have you thought about Composting?

Related organization links

  • Related links

    • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Center for Health, Environment and Justice
    • Children’s Environmental Health Indicators
    • Children’s Environmental Health Network
    • Environmental Working Group
    • Fish Consumption in Pregnancy
    • Healthy Schools Network
    • Illinois Department of Public Health Children’s Product Safety
    • International Joint Commission
    • Lead Safe Illinois
    • Midwest Pesticide Action Center
    • National Center for Environmental Health
    • National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health & Safety
    • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
    • Pan American Health Organization
    • Pesticide Action Network of North America
    • Physicians for Social Responsibility
    • Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment
    • Respiratory Health Association
    • World Health Organization
    • United Nations Children’s Fund
    • Investigating Environmental Contaminants-Minnesota supplement (state.mn.us)

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