Resources on Women's Health and the Environment

Resources on Women's Health and the Environment

Women’s Health and the Environment
Web site with information about the science linking women's health and the environment and ideas for individual, community, state and national-level advocacy aimed at reducing human exposures to contaminants. Includes a downloadable toolkit of resources.

see http://www.womenshealthandenvironment.org/

A conference entitled “Women’s Health and the Environment: New Science, New Solutions” was held in Pittsburgh in late April, sponsored by the Heinz Family Foundation.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette carried an article on the conference (see below) which begins “Exposure to chemicals in the environment has produced a women's health crisis that federal regulators and some health care professionals have been slow to respond to...”

Audio and video files from the conference will soon be available online.