Toxic Matters
To help people and families learn how to reduce their exposures to toxic substances, the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE) and EaRTH created a webpage to offer 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.
Prescriptions for Prevention
Funded in part by EaRTH, this series of more than 30 patient education materials covers key low and no cost prevention strategies to reduce exposures to a broad array of vital environmental health challenges such as lead, outdoor air and climate change. These are also in UCSF's electronic medical system for health care professionals during clinical encounters.
Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit
The Western States Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (WS PEHSU), with endorsement from EaRTH, created a toolkit to fill the need for environmental health information.
Petrochemials Undermining Health
EaRTH and PRHE collaborated on this infographic to accompany Dr. Woodruff's paper on petrochemicals.
How to Survive Extreme Heat
Extreme heat is a burgeoning environmental exposure unleashed by our climate crisis. The resources on this page - in English, Spanish and Mandarin - will help you, your loved ones and those you work with to protect against extreme heat.
10 Ways to Avoid Harmful Chemicals
EaRTH in collaboration with PRHE 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. Available in English and Español.
How PFAS affects women, pregnancy and human development
Created collaboratively with the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO), Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), PRHE and the UCSF Office of Sustainbility to educate our communities.
Climate Change & Pregnancy
In collaboration with FIGO, HEAL, and PRHE, we developed infographics for health professionals and advocacy groups to highlight how climate change can increase health risks for pregnant women and their children. Available in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Bosnian, and Serbian, they aim to raise global awareness of these critical health impacts.
Toxic Chemicals & Pregnancy
In collaboration with FIGO, HEAL, and PRHE, we developed infographics for health professionals and advocacy groups to raise awareness about toxic chemicals and pregnancy. Available in English, French, German, and Spanish, the infographics offer 10 tips for women to reduce exposure to harmful substances, along with advice for policymakers.
Educational Resources from Our Partners
Story of Health eBook
Eligible for up to 13.75 credits of free, online and asynchronous continuing medical education, this series was created by WS PEHSU to explore the environmental influences on reproductive health, including infertility, developmental challenges, and childhood cancer.
Wildfires & Health Education Hub
Spearheaded by the UC Center for Climate, Health, and Equity, the “Wildfires & Our Health” series of infographics aims to raise awareness of the broad range of health effects of wildfires. 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.
Gas Stove Pollution
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.