PRHE Events
PRHE has convened a variety of events, conferences and workshops in order to support environmental reproductive health research, education and policy.
PRHE pursues and promotes an interdisciplinary, life-stage approach to research.
Below is a description of research projects being conducted by PRHE staff and UCSF-affiliated faculty:
Methodological Issues in Studies of Air Pollution and Perinatal Outcomes
This past September in Mexico City, PRHE co-led a workshop that brought together leading experts on air pollution and perinatal health outcomes to review the current state of the science and study methodologies. The workshop focused on developing a research agenda for improving methods for future studies and to develop consistent, comparable approaches to assessing work to date. An International Collaborative was initiated at the workshop to foster further work internationally, and to form useful conclusions about the health risks of air pollution to the developing fetus.
Moving Upstream: A Workshop on Evaluating Adverse Upstream Endpoints for Improved Decision Making and Risk Assessment
Last May, PRHE collaborated with the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment of the California Environmental Protection Agency, the United States Environmental Protection Agency National Center for Environmental Economics and National Center for Environmental Assessment, and the University of California at Berkeley Superfund Basic Research Program to hold a workshop on how measures of physiological change, such as alterations in hormone levels or gene expression, could be considered in the context of "adversity" and how data on these precursors or upstream indicators of toxicity can be used to improve hazard identification and dose response characterizations. A report on the workshop is under development and will be submitted for publication.
Women's Reproductive Health and the Environment
In collaboration with the Collaborative for Health and the Environment (CHE) and Lou Guillette from the University of Florida, PRHE convened a group of leading scientists to assess the state of the science on environmental contaminant exposures and reproductive health in women. Health conditions of interest included: breast and reproductive tract cancers, endometriosis, fibroids, altered timing of puberty, ovarian and reproductive tract abnormalities and infertility. The state of the science review will be published in the scientific literature. A report on the science and on recommendations for research and policy priorities will also be written.
UCSF-CHE Summit on Environmental Challenges to Reproductive Health and Fertility
The Summit on Environmental Challenges to Reproductive Health and Fertility convened over 400 scientists, health care professionals, community groups, political representatives and the media to hear presentations on the impact of environmental contaminants on reproductive health and fertility and to discuss opportunities to improve health through research, education, communication and policy.
UCSF Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment
1330 Broadway Street, Suite 1100
Oakland, CA 94612
phone: (510) 986-8990
email: prhe@obgyn.ucsf.edu
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November 4, 2008
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