| (NOTE: the link to Physicians for Social Responsibility, L.A. takes you to a very good website.)
Alaska Collaborative on Health and the Environment Statewide Teleconference Seminar Series |
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| Science and Action to Protect Public Health: How Health Care Professionals are Changing Chemicals Policy | ||
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| Presenter | Dear Sandra,Join executive director of Physicians for Social Responsibility – Los Angeles (PSR-LA), Martha Arguello for a one hour discussion examining our broken chemical safety system and offering solutions to protect our health and the environment. Martha works at the intersections of health, the environment and social justice to advocate for effective policy change.
For the past 32 years, Martha has served in the non-profit sector as an advocate, community organizer, and coalition builder. She joined Physicians for Social Responsibility- Los Angeles (PSR-LA) in 1998 to launch the environmental health programs, and became Executive Director in November 2007. While working as a health educator in the 1990s, Martha had an epiphany — she realized that although early detection can prevent death from breast cancer, it does not prevent breast cancer, which has been increasingly linked to the exposure of environmental toxicants. Since that realization, Martha has dedicated her career to the environmental justice movement, and has lectured nationwide on the use of precautionary principle policies. To join this call: Email diana@akaction.org to join this free call and receive the dial-up instructions. |
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| Date: Wednesday, January 11, 2012Time: 9 am Alaska Time (10 am Pacific / 1 pm Eastern)
This call will last one hour. To join this free call and receive the dial-up instructions, please RSVP to Alaska Community Action on Toxics at diana@akaction.org or (907) 222-7714. |
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| About the Collaborative on Health and the Environment – Alaska (CHE-AK) | ||
| The Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE) is a national non-partisan partnership of individuals and organizations concerned with the role of the environment in human and ecosystem health. CHE seeks to raise the level of scientific and public dialogue about the role environmental factors play in many of the common diseases, disorders and conditions of our time. ACAT established CHE-AK as a working group of CHE to advance knowledge and effective action to address growing concerns about the links between human health and environmental factors and to foster collaboration around environmental health and justice education and policy efforts that are of concern in Alaska.Learn more about CHE-AK or listen to audio recordings of previous teleconference seminars. We welcome your suggestions and engagement. To suggest a topic or speakers for a future call, please email diana@akaction.org | ||
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| Alaska Community Action on Toxics | (907) 222-7714 | ||
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