Newsletter | April 2023

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Announcements

Join us for our next in person meeting this upcoming Tuesday, May 2; 11:15 am - 12:45 pm PT at Mission Hall 1401/1402.

Strategies to Maximize Your Science: How EaRTH can help you amplify your work.

What does the media look for? How can you craft a clear and compelling message? What can we learn from others in promoting our research? And how can the EaRTH Center help to amplify your work?

Please join us as Susan Lamontagne, PRHE's Communications Director and consultant for the EaRTH IHSFC, walks us through some communications case studies. What works? What doesn't? And real-time feedback on messaging your work.

Zoom option also available.

Although not as interactive and without the free food, Zoom will also be available for this meeting. Disclaimer: it’s our first hybrid meeting so we kindly ask you to bear with us in advance. 😊

Mentored Clinician Award News- Mental Health and Changing Climate: An Educational, Outreach Project for Prevention and Advocacy

Dr. Robin Cooper worked with a local high school to support the Chinese translation of the infographics for her project. The teacher, Regina Liu at Lick-Wilmerding High School, seized this valuable educational opportunity and has implemented further education in environmental health and impacts for her students. The students have been hard at work with their own environmental projects and created posters to raise awareness about various issues including: air pollution in China, fast fashion's environmental impact, coral reef bleaching, etc. Students have disseminated the information to various organizations, on campus at Lick-Wilmerding High School and to students at Balboa High School, on social media, and to friends and family across the globe.

We are excited to share their enthusiasm, hard work and success!

Check out their materials here.

Events

From Carbon Neutrality to Decarbonization - UCSF Opportunities: Academic Senate Sustainability Committee Town Hall

TOMORROW, Thursday, April 27, 12-2 PT. Zoom.

This town hall will explore the Academic Senate’s Theme Year of Decarbonization. Topics include: updates from the Sustainability Committee, ways to get involved at UCSF, electrification, and transportation. Speakers include Erin Gore, Senior Vice Chancellor of Finance and Administration; Jon Giacomi, Associate Vice Chancellor for Campus Life Services; Amit Kothari, Executive Director, Transportation Services; and Seema Gandhi, Medical Director of Sustainability for UCSF Health. Details.

Environmental Health Sciences Early Investigator 2023 Career Development Workshop

Tuesday, May 9, 10-2 PT. Hybrid.

Topics on Building and Maintaining Collaborative Networks, Difficult Conversations and Conflict Resolution. Open to any Early Stage Investigators interested in Environmental Health Sciences! Please note that the workshop is set up for interactive in-person attendance, and a few aspects of the seminar are not able to be converted to Zoom. We are offering a live steam zoom option for the portion of the session that can be streamed. Registration required.

Annual Tobacco and Other Industries Documents Workshop

Friday, May 12, 9:30-2 PT. Zoom, limited registration. Details.

The UCSF Center for Tobacco Research and Education (CTCRE), an interdisciplinary research community, announces its one-day workshop on using tobacco and other industry documents for advocacy. We highlight how lessons learned from tobacco industry documents also apply to chemical, food, drug and opiate industries. Register by Friday, May 5. Limited to 150 participants.

Environmental Justice Boot Camp: Theory and Methods to Study Environmental Health Disparities

August 17-18. In-person at Columbia, New York. Details.

Join Columbia University, Harvard University, UCSF, and the University of Washington for a two-day intensive boot camp of seminars and applied analytical sessions on key concepts, exposure assessment techniques, epidemiologic methods, community engagement and health policy applications, and statistical analytic approaches for conducting effective and solution-driven environmental justice research.

Are you a postdoc or early-stage investigator at UCSF? Apply for free Boot Camp registration and up to $1500 travel from the EaRTH Center here!

Molecular Signatures of Exposure in Cancer - a NIEHS & NCI Workshop

June 29-30. 8-1:30 PT. Virtual. Details.

This workshop will assess the current state of the science of using signatures from “omic” data types to link environmental exposure to cancer and explore potential uses of such signatures of carcinogenic exposure to aid cancer prevention and interception. While the meeting will focus on linking exposure signatures to cancer, a range of technologies, models, and exposures will be considered.

Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and Women’s Health Symposium

July 18-19. Virtual. Details.

This symposium will identify research, prevention, and treatment focusing on the impact of endocrine disrupting chemicals on women’s health and explore actionable solutions. 

In the News

How Much Can We Control Our Own Fertility?

Diana Laird, EaRTH Deputy Director

UCSF Magazine

Historic Redlining Negatively Impacts Maternal Health Almost a Century On

Rachel Morello-Frosch, EaRTH Member

Berkeley Public Health News

Publication in Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology: Remapping racial and ethnic inequities in severe maternal morbidity: The legacy of redlining in California

Were you in the news? Send the link to earth@ucsf.edu for inclusion in a future newsletter.

Grant & Funding Opportunities

Research with Activities Related to Diversity (ReWARD) (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)

PAR-23-122 The ReWARD program provides support for the health-related research of scientists who are making a significant contribution to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) and who have no current NIH research project grant funding. *NIEHS* programmatic interests are described in detail in NOT-ES-23-010. Due June 5.

NIEHS RFAs

Current requests for applications issued by NIEHS.

Are you applying for a grant and need more data? Remember the EaRTH Center offers core services for Center members through the Seedling Program. Schedule a consult with a core today!

Job Postings & Other Opportunities

Call for Abstracts! Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and Women’s Health Symposium

The Office on Women’s Health is accepting abstract submissions through May 19 for the Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and Women’s Health Symposium on July 18-19, 2023. Selected abstracts will be chosen to participate in a virtual poster session during the symposium. Research eligible for submission must demonstrate the impact of endocrine disrupting chemicals on women’s health or successful outcomes in the prevention or treatment of endocrine disrupting chemicals’ impact on women’s health. Abstract Submission Deadline: May 19, 2023. All participants submitting an abstract must complete the online registration form. Then submit abstract here.

UCSF Environmental Health Postdoctoral Researcher

Dr. Robinson’s Laboratory at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is looking to immediately hire two full-time postdoctoral researchers to work on projects aimed at understanding how environmental chemical exposures adversely impact human development and reproduction.The postdoctoral candidate will work closely with collaborators in the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (led by Dr. Tracey Woodruff) and the Center to Advance Toxicology and Chemical Hazard Assessment. Details.

University of Washington Pediatric and Reproductive Environmental Health Scholars (UW PREHS) K12 Program

This new program is designed for early-career clinicians interested in academic environmental health research training (MD, DDS, DMD, DO, DC, OD, ND, DVM, PharmD, DNP or PhD in clinical disciplines). The UW PREHS K12 program will support three scholars annually for a continuous 2-3 year appointment in which the scholars bridge clinical training to research independence through a mentored research experience in pediatric and reproductive environmental health. More information and how to apply.

Reproductive Epidemiology Research Scientist

California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), part of the California EPA, is seeking to hire a Research Scientist with experience in human reproductive epidemiological analyses and public health biostatistics. If you have a Master’s degree and an interest in exposure assessment, exposure modeling, data analysis, and protecting the health of Californians, see the job posting here.

Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment (IonE)

They are looking for PhD or PhD candidates who are interested in interdisciplinary academic research and community-engaged scholarship with a focus on solutions-oriented research in sustainability to support an equitable and just transition for all. Read the description here and share the hiring flyer.

Those who are interested in applying can visit IonE Postdoc Fellowship webpage. Applications are accepted until 12pm Central Time on May 1, 2023. Please reach out to ione-research@umn.edu with any questions.

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The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, our sponsoring agency, requires investigators who use the EaRTH Center's resources and services to acknowledge that support in the publications as well as any poster presentations, seminar talks, press releases, and other documents relevant to research. This acknowledgement also applies to recipients of Pilot Project funding and Seedling Awardees. 

See the EaRTH website for acknowledgement text and to download EaRTH Logos. Award P30-ES030284.

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The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, our sponsoring agency, requires investigators who use the EaRTH Center's resources and services to acknowledge that support in the publications as well as any poster presentations, seminar talks, press releases, and other documents relevant to research. This acknowledgement also applies to recipients of Pilot Project funding. See the EaRTH website for acknowledgement text. Award P30-ES030284.

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