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About
Welcome to PSR's Environmental Health Policy
Institute, where we ask questions -- then we ask the experts to
answer them. Join us as physicians, health professionals,
and environmental health experts share their ideas, inspiration, and
analysis about toxic chemicals and environmental health policy.
Topics
- The Future of Toxics Advocacy May 18, 2012
- Toxics and brain development April 9, 2012
- Coal Ash March 2, 2012
- Prenatal Exposures February 2, 2012
- Public Health and the Safe Chemicals Act January 5, 2012
- Toxics tools and resources December 5, 2011
- Health hazards of fragrances November 3, 2011
- Environmental justice October 6, 2011
- Farmworkers and pesticides August 24, 2011
- Health professional advocacy July 28, 2011
- Cancer and toxic chemicals June 16, 2011
- Air pollution April 14, 2011
- Food and toxics February 24, 2011
- From climate science to climate policy January 13, 2011
- Technology and toxics December 15, 2010
- Emerging environmental hazards November 4, 2010
- Scientific uncertainty in policy choices October 7, 2010
- Chemicals management policy September 1, 2010
Katie
Huffling, RN MS CNM
Katie Huffling is a Certified Nurse-Midwife
and is an environmental health program manager at the University of Maryland
School of Nursing. In her current position Ms. Huffling is coordinating the
efforts of the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (ANHE). In her work
with ANHE, Ms. Huffling works with nurses nationwide on a variety of
environmental health issues.
Ms. Huffling is the author of a number of
peer-reviewed articles on environmental health issues as they relate to
pregnancy and has developed an assessment tool to assess chemical exposures
during pregnancy. She was also a fellow in the 2011 Reach the Decision Makers
program at the UCSF Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment.
Stronger Chemical Regulations Are Needed to Prevent Prenatal Exposures, February 2, 2012