A big "thank you" for your responses to the EnviRN Survey! 

Thanks so much to everyone who responded to our EnviRN User Survey.  The EnviRN staff received a lot of wonderful feedback about our website and suggestions for ways we can provide you with more environmental health resources.  We will be making changes to the site over the next few months based on your responses. 

If you have not yet responded to the survey, feel free to do so here. 



Environmental Health Nursing Writers' Retreat: Application deadline extended to April 1

Are you a nurse interested in environmental health? Do you wish there was more environmental health information for nurses? Have you always wanted to write an article about an environmental health issue you are concerned about?  The Environmental Health Education Center at the University of Maryland School of Nursing is sponsoring two “writers’ retreats” for nurses who would like to write an article about an environmental health issue. This is an opportunity to provide nurses like you with the support you will need to get an article published.

Choose from two times and locations: June 12-16 in Baltimore, MD or June 26-30 in Marin Headland, CA (San Francisco area). 

Click here for more information.  The application deadline has been extended to April 1, 2008; and applicants will be notified of their acceptance the following week. 


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Environmental Signaling in Urban Ecosystems Symposium: April 13-16; New Orleans, LA

Join us for the 7th annual symposium on the environment and hormones hosted by the Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research in New Orleans, LA. 

Topics:

  * Principles of Environmental Signaling
  * Translational Research Models
  * Systems Biology and Emerging Agents
  * Urban Ecosystems and Environmental Signaling
  * Regional Landscape Perspectives in Environmental Signaling

Contact:

Center for Bioenvironmental Research
at Tulane and Xavier Universities
1430 Tulane Avenue, SL-3
New Orleans, LA 70112-2699
http://e.hormone.tulane.edu
e.hormone@tulane.edu



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Environmental health and disaster preparedness conference: April 15; Seattle, WA

"Responding effectively to disasters and environmental health events: a conference for nurses and other health care professionals" is designed for all registered nurses who wish to incorporate disaster response and environmental health principles into current practice settings including acutecare, long term care, public health, community health, ambulatory care, school health, military health, and other health care settings.

Click here for more information. 


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Call for manuscripts for AAOHN

The editor of the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN) Journal is very interested in publishing environmental health manuscripts of interest to their readership. If you are interested in writing about environmental issues from an occupational focus please contact Dr. Joy Wachs.  

The journal's editors are also willing to mentor new authors.

Dr. Wachs' contact information:
Joy E. Wachs, PhD, RN, CNS, BC, FAAOHN
Professor
Department of Family/Community Nursing
Coordinator, Honors-in-Discipline Program
College of Nursing
East Tennessee State University
Box 7067
Johnson City, TN  37614
423-439-4549
E-mail: wachs@etsu.edu


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Scholarship available for CleanMed 2008 conference

In honor of the memory of Stephanie Davis, a CleanMed attendee and waste reduction champion, CleanMed 2008 and the Davis family, friends and colleagues invite interested individuals to apply for the Stephanie Davis Waste Reduction Award and scholarship. The Stephanie Davis Waste Reduction Fund will provide a travel scholarship and recognition at CleanMed 2008 to individuals interested in health care waste reduction who have initiated or undertaken waste reduction work with healthcare facilities.

Applications are due by April 4, 2008. Go to http://www.cleanmed.org/2008/scholarship.html for more information. 


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NIH Collaborates with EPA to improve the safety testing of chemicals

From NIEHS: Testing the safety of chemicals ranging from pesticides to household cleaners will benefit from new technologies and a plan for collaboration, according to federal scientists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), who today announced a new toxicity testing agreement. The concept behind this agreement is highlighted in the Feb. 15, 2008 issue of the journal Science.

"I launched the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research five years ago to create collaborations between institutes and centers on big projects that none of them could do alone. But I never envisioned a trans-agency collaboration testing for environmental toxins," said NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. "This research collaboration has the potential to make crucial discoveries that will protect the public health by identifying and understanding chemical toxicants to which people are exposed."

Two NIH institutes have formed a collaboration with the EPA to use the NIH Chemical Genomics Center's (NCGC) high-speed, automated screening robots to test suspected toxic compounds using cells and isolated molecular targets instead of laboratory animals. This new, trans-agency collaboration is anticipated to generate data more relevant to humans; expand the number of chemicals that are tested; and reduce the time, money and number of animals involved in testing.

Click here for the full article. 


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The Healthy Schools Campaign

The Healthy Schools Campaign, based in Chicago, advocates for policies and practices that allow all students, teachers and staff to learn and work in a healthy school environment.  HSC focuses on school environmental health and healthy food in schools as well as engaging in legislative advocacy and providing resources to school nurses. 

To learn more, visit www.healthyschoolscampaign.org. 


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Blog post on green hospitals: Please post comments!

Visit the Pioneer Portfolio's blog, Pioneering Ideas, to read a post from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on the green hospitals movement and the support it is giving to Health Care Without Harm.  Feel free to respond!   


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