The EaRTH Center collboratively created a fact sheet and infographic with the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO), Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), UCSF Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE) and the UCSF Office of Sustainbility, in order to educate our communities as to how PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) affect women, pregnancy and human development.
The EaRTH Center's Mentored Clinician awardee, Robin Cooper, MD, expanded on an earlier project with the Climate Psychiatry Alliance to provide guidance on extreme heat for mental health professionals and people grappling with mental illness. The materials are available to national and community groups serving vulnerable populations.
The EaRTH Center, in collaboration with the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment, created a patient handout that helps to answer one of the most common questions we’re asked, “What can I do to avoid harmful chemicals?” This handout includes a list of some of the toxic chemicals in our homes and everyday products to avoid and ways to avoid them.
Educational Resources From Our Partners
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UC Center for Climate, Health, and Equity
Wildfires are becoming more frequent and severe. They generate large amounts of air pollution and have devastating effects on the communities that they set ablaze. Wildfires pose serious threats to physical and mental health and have far-reaching public health implications. The “Wildfires & Our Health” education series of infographics aims to raise awareness of the broad range of health effects of wildfires and offer advice for what people can do to protect themselves from wildfire smoke.
This project is led by UCSF medical students Raj Fadadu and Serena Appignani Blacklow with support from faculty members Drs. Arianne Teherani and Katherine Gundling.
Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE)
PRHE created a series of brochures that offers practical recommendations on how to avoid exposure to common substances encountered in everyday life, at work, and in food, that can be harmful to health. These are for individuals and for health professionals to handout to patients. View the digital collection online or contact PRHE to request physical copies for your clinical office.
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Physicians for Social Responsibility and San Francisco Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility have created fact sheets and brochures on how to reduce your risk from gas stove pollution. Gas stoves produce dangerous amounts of air pollutants, including nitrous oxides (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO), and particulate matter (PM), that often exceed outdoor ambient air standards. These pollutants can have lasting and damaging effects on the human body.