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2024 ISCHE RETREAT
ISCHE will host its sixth international retreat at Hotel Plaza Campeche in Campeche, Mexico
from January 8-12, 2024.
Campeche, Mexico
January 8-12, 2024
The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live.
—Erik Erikson
Recognizing notable advocacy by scientists and researchers in Childrens Environmental Health
The Needleman Award, named in honor of Dr. Herbert Needleman, acknowledges a scientist who has made significant strides in advancing children's environmental health, while facing formidable challenges from powerful entities, including industry and government. Read more...
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Children are essential to our future and the continuation of human life. Children around the world are confronted by multiple environmental threats to health, including toxins, air pollution, psychosocial stress, and climate change. Infants and children are often exquisitely vulnerable to these threats; exposures during critical windows of vulnerability have been associated with a wide range of childhood diseases. Early life exposures can also increase the risk of chronic diseases in adulthood.
