Resources on Women's Environmental Health

Environmental Health News

Daily aggregation of news from around the world about environmental factors affecting human health.

Household Hazards: Potential Hazards of Home Cleaning Products

A report that provides detailed information about household cleaning products - Monoethanolamine (MEA), Ammonium quaternary compounds, Glycol ethers, Alkyl phenol ethoxylates (APEs), Phthalates - and the harmful affects they have on human health.

Scientific Proceedings of the UCSF-CHE Summit on Environmental Challenges to Reproductive Health and Fertility

Elsevier and Fertility and Sterility have generously provided full access to the Scientific Proceedings of the 2007 University of California, San Francisco-Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE) Summit on Environmental Challenges to Reproductive Health and Fertility -- a groundbreaking multi-disciplinary conference on the reproductive and developmental health impacts of exposures to environmental contaminants.

Healthy Kids, Healthy Churches, Healthy Communities

The Massachusetts Council of Churches, in partnership with the NCC, is pleased to bring the Healthy Kids, Healthy Churches, Healthy Communities curriculum to the churches of the Commonwealth. We hope and pray that these activities and study sessions will help Christians in Massachusetts live out a faithful witness of health and wholeness, love of creation, and love of neighbor.

The Collaborative Fund Model: Effective Strategies for Grantmaking

Collaborative Fund for Women's Economic Development - The Collaborative Fund Model: Effective Strategies for Grantmaking

Healthy Alternatives for Your Home and Family

An easy description of how you can minimize your exposure to everyday chemicals that may be harmful to your health and the health of your family, pets and the environment. The everyday chemicals are grouped into three easy categories: cleaning products, cosmetics and personal care products and home and garden pest control.

SRI Call for Applications

A description of the application process for new breast cancer research initiatives this year through the California Breast Cancer Research Program (* with fast approaching deadlines). The link provides a description of the application process, estimated number of awards and amounts to be given, deadlines, start dates, research opportunities and other links to application materials, directions, past initiatives and more.

Toxic Link to Endometriosis

An article that describes how even small exposures over time to the chemical pollutant Dioxin can significantly increase the risk of developing Endometriosis and other immune abnormalities in women and children.

State Health Tracking - Trust for America's Health

Trust For America's Health developed a state health tracking tool that enables users to explore a state's health as it compares to national trends, including statistics on asthma, obesity, cancer, HIV rates, as well as dollars that are spent in the state on health and public health initiatives.

Skin Deep - Cosmetics Safety Database

This database, developed and maintained by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), enables users to assess the safety of the personal care products they and their families use and explore safer alternatives.