Join us for this month's webinar presenting research from the University of California, San Francisco and the University of California, Berkeley. The webinar features presentations and interactive discussions including recent findings and new developments in children’s environmental health.

The mission of the EPA/NIEHS Centers program is to reduce children’s health risks, protect children from environmental threats and promote their health and well-being in the communities where they live, learn and play.

AGENDA

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.:
	Tracey Woodruff, Ph.D., M.P.H. University of California, San Francisco Maternal and Fetal Exposures to BPA During Mid-Gestation What you will learn: What is the BPA exposure among pregnant women in a low-income population? What are the sources and predictors of exposure to BPA? What are fetal exposures to BPA and its metabolites? Dr. Woodruff is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Her research interests are to advance scientific inquiry, professional training, public education and health policies that reduce the impacts of environmental contaminants on reproductive and developmental health.
	Kim Harley, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley Bisphenol A and Children’s Health: Results From the CHAMACOS Study What you will learn: The sources and levels of BPA exposure to pregnant mothers and children. The impact of early life BPA exposure on thyroid hormone, neurodevelopment and behavior, and obesity. Dr. Harley is an Associate Adjunct Professor of Maternal and Child Health at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a reproductive and perinatal epidemiologist whose research focuses on the association between endocrine disrupting chemicals and child development, including neurodevelopment, obesity and onset of puberty. Her work has focused on the reproductive and developmental effects of bisphenol A, polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and organophosphate pesticides. Dr. Harley has spent several years investigating the effects of environmental chemical exposures to mothers and children living in a migrant farm worker community. She is an Associate Director of the Center for the Health Assessment of Mothers and Children of Salinas (CHAMACOS) Study, a longitudinal cohort study of Latina mothers and children living in the agricultural Salinas Valley, California. Children in the CHAMACOS study have been followed from before birth until 12 years of age to determine the impact of environmental exposures on their growth, neurodevelopment and health. Dr. Harley is the principal investigator of a grant to examine the role of early life BPA exposure on children’s health and development in this cohort.
2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.:	Questions and Answers

Next Month July 10, 2013 Webinar 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. EDT Susan Schantz University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign  Epigenetics, Endocrine Disruptors and Early Development Carmen Marsit Dartmouth College  Placental Epigenetic Biomarkers of Exposure and Health

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