CHEJ Training Webinar: Collateral Damage—the Cost of Living in a Toxic World.

By Center for Health, Environment & Justice

Join us for our next monthly training webinar focused on Collateral Damage—the Cost of Living in a Toxic World.

Many of today's most common diseases are shaped not only by genetics and lifestyle, but also by the environments we inhabit. Join renowned speaker Bruce Lanphear in this talk that explores the hidden toll of toxic exposures, from lead's contribution to coronary heart disease to the roles of radon, arsenic, asbestos, and air pollution in the lung cancer epidemic. It also examines emerging evidence linking environmental chemicals to autism and Parkinson's disease. By tracing these connections, the talk highlights how preventable exposures have become major drivers of chronic disease—and how population-based prevention can improve health on a global scale.

Speakers:

• Bruce Lanphear, MD, MPH, a public health physician and professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, has spent 30 years studying how to protect children from lead poisoning and other toxic chemicals. His research helped set federal lead standards and confirmed a sobering truth; no level of lead is safe. To reach a wider audience, he created Little Things Matter, which produces videos on population strategies and the power of prevention. On his Substack, Plagues, Pollutants, and Poverty, he writes about hidden threats to human health and strategies to protect communities. If you care about public health, environmental justice, or the forces driving chronic disease, please subscribe (choose the free option) and join the conversation.