Wisconsin Environmental Health Network (WEHN)

The Wisconsin Environmental Health Network (WEHN) educates health professionals, environmental advocates and concerned citizens about environmental health issues and provides and effective voice for improving environmental health policy.

Registration is now open for Making the Connection 2013:  Emerging Clinical Issues in Environmental Health, on February 15, in Madison and Milwaukee.   This conference includes faculty presentations on managing environmental intolerances, assessing environmental exposures in clincal practice, health impacts of frac-sand mining and promoting sustainable, integrated well-being.  Making the Connection 2013 is also available in Milwaukee at the Zilber School of Public Health by synchronous web-conference.  Registration for either the live conference at UW-Madison's medical school or the web-conference in Milwaukee.  Registration opened on December 21, 2012 and you can register at the UW-Madison Office of Contining Professional Development website. View and print the brochure by clicking HERE.

One the the clinical tools introduced at the  2012 Making the Connections conference, the Reproductive Environmental Exposure Assessment is available for use. Please feel free to link to the tool here and print a copy for use in your clinic.  Contact wehnmail@gmail.com with feedback on how we can improve the tool.

WEHN anticipates working again on Open-Pit Mining legislation in the Wisconsin State Legislature in teh 2013-14 session.  This legislation failed to pass the state senate in the last weeks of the 2011-12 session, and state legislators have indicated that it will be among the first legislation discussed in 2013.   Dr. Ann Behrmann of the WEHN Steering Committee has prepared a fact sheet for use in talking to your legislator about the bill titled, “Taconite Mining – What are the health impacts?” available as a PDF for your use.

The WEHN steering committee meets monthly to decide the program priorities of the network, reach out to WEHN membership on key environmental health research and develop clinical tools.  For more information or to sign up to receive WEHN action alerts & emails, contact Danna Olsen, WEHN Administrative Coordinator, at wehnmail@gmail.com.