Region 3: Children’s Environmental Health in the Mid-Atlantic States

EPA Region 3 (Mid-Atlantic) serves Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and 7 Tribes.

Contacts

For questions or requests regarding technical assistance, training, or outreach on children’s environmental health, healthy schools, or environmental education topics, please contact:

Erin C. Sullivan: EPA Region 3 Children’s Environmental Health/Schools Coordinator; sullivan.erinc@epa.gov or (215) 814-5564.

Region 3 Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit

EPA and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) jointly support the Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSUs), which is a network of experts in pediatric environmental health located throughout North America. PEHSUs were created to ensure that health professionals and communities have access to specialized medical knowledge and resources for children faced with a health risk due to a natural or human-made environmental hazard.

In Region 3, the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health & the Environment is available to answer questions from health care professionals, parents, school officials, or other community members about children's symptoms that may be related to environmental exposures.

Service Area: Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia
Email: macche@villanova.edu
Phone: (833) 362-2243

Other Resources

Children's Health Podcasts

In observance of Children’s Health Month, EPA produced a three-part podcast series which focuses on the impact of Climate Change on Children’s Health. The podcasts feature Dr. Laura Anderko (Director of the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment) and highlight issues around climate change, heat and declining air quality and flooding and participation.

Mechanisms of Asthma – Dietary Interventions Against Environmental Triggers

To better understand the effects of environmental exposures on children's health, Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Centers (Children's Centers) were established by EPA and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to explore ways to reduce children's health risks from environmental factors.

The Children's Center at Johns Hopkins University included research on Mechanisms of Asthma-Dietary Interventions Against Environmental Triggers, focused focus on children living in Baltimore, Maryland to study how certain foods cause asthmatic responses and whether certain foods make a person’s asthma better or worse.

Social Media

You can also keep up with children's health highlights by following us on social media.

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