Join CHE-Penn on Mother's Day, May 14, 2006, for the Pittsburgh Race for the Cure. Our team, ReducingRisk.org, is promoting research into the environmental risk factors for breast cancer. Teams are closed now, but you can still sign up for the race and stop by the ReducingRisk.org booth on Flagstaff Hill on Race Day.

Noted ecologist and environmental health advocate Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., will lecture at 7 PM on Thursday, June 8, 2006 at the AC-ACLD/Tillotson School, 4900 Girard Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15227. Call 412-881-2253 for directions. This free event is co-sponsored by the Healthy Children Project, the AC-ACLD/Tillotson School and CHE-Penn.

Welcome to CHE-Penn

For information on or to post future events, please contact che-penn@comcast.net.

The Collaborative on Health and the Environment, is an active network of organizations and individuals sharing the basic goal of improving human health by reducing exposure to toxicants in our bodies and the environment. Our goal is the formation of an alliance of individuals and organizations that can make a positive impact on local and national public policy regarding environmental health. And we need your help.

CHE-Penn is a regional affiliate of the Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE, pronounced "chay") a nonpartisan partnership organization based in Bolinas, California, working to further knowledge, action and cooperation regarding environmental contributors to disease and other health problems. Participation is open to health professionals, researchers, advocacy organizations, health-affected and patient groups, and everyone interested in the effects of environmental toxics on human health.

CHE-Penn hosted Pittsburgh 2005: Health and the Environment Conference from April 7-9, 2005.

The news links below come from www.environmentalhealthnews.org, recommended daily reading for anyone interested in keeping abreast of new developments in environmental health.

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