Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and Maternal Health Outcomes Webinar

This May 2024 webinar for sexual and reproductive health providers and staff provides an overview of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), common sources and routes of exposure to EDCs, and how exposure to EDCs may influence reproductive health.

Speaker:

• Tamarra James-Todd, PhD, MPH, Mark and Catherine Winkler Associate Professor of Environmental Reproductive Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Learning Objectives:

1. Define EDCs, their sources, and exposure routes
2. Describe examples of how EDCs can negatively affect reproductive health
3. Explain how unequal environmental exposure to EDCs contributes to racial disparities in negative maternal health outcomes
4. Describe at least two strategies for reducing exposure to EDCs, which sexual and reproductive health providers can discuss with clients

Time: 1 hour

Continuing Education: 1.0 contact hour

There is no fee for a continuing nursing education (CNE) certificate upon successful completion of this activity.

This nursing continuing professional development activity has been approved for a maximum of 1 contact hour by JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. Activity #RHNTC43.

JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. is an approved provider with distinction of nursing continuing professional development by the Northeast Multistate Division, an accredited approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Certificate of Completion: Yes - available after completing the evaluation at the end of the recording

Video Chapters

1. Welcome and Introductions (0:00)
2. Learning Objectives and Initial Poll (04:05)
3. Background on EDCs (17:13)
4. Are there groups at higher risk? (24:35)
5. It’s time to ask WHY (36:19)
6. What can we do to make change? (48:00)
7. Final Poll and Q&A (52:08)

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