Region 6: Children’s Environmental Health in South Central States
EPA Region 6 (South Central) serves Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Texas, and 66 Tribes. In the Southwest, more than 21 percent of the population are children younger than 14 years old.
Contacts
For questions or requests regarding technical assistance, training, or outreach on children’s environmental health, healthy schools, or environmental education topics, please contact:
- Ginny Vietti: EPA Region 6 Children’s Health Coordinator; vietti.virginia@epa.gov or (214) 665-7431.
- Cathy Gilmore: Senior Environmental Employee (SEE); health schools; gilmore.cathy@epa.gov or (214) 665-6574.
Healthy Schools Newsletters
Check out our quarterly Healthy Schools Newsletters! Region 6 prepares a quarterly newsletter to help inform school administrators, nurses, teachers, students and parents about news and tools for creating and maintaining healthy schools.
To be added to the distribution list, contact Cathy Gilmore (gilmore.cathy@epa.gov).
Southwest Center for Pediatric Environmental Health
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 6, he Southwest Center for Pediatric Environmental Health 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: Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas
- Email: swcpeh@ttuhsc.edu
- Phone: (915) 534-3807, or toll-free at (888) 901-5665
Social Media
You can also keep up with children's health highlights by following us on social media.
- X: @EPARegion6
- Facebook: U.S. EPA South Central Region
- Instagram: @EPA_SouthCentral