Webinar Series: Childhood Cancer & the Environment
The Childhood Cancer & the Environment Program is an initiative of PHI supported Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units Network that educates clinicians and families on practical ways to prevent childhood cancer and improve treatment.
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Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units National Program Office
The Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSU) National Program Office, supported by the Public Health Institute, hosts regular webinars through its Childhood Cancer and the Environment Program (CCEP). Designed for pediatric providers, parents and caregivers, the webinars feature PEHSU network physicians sharing research and clinical expertise on exposure risks, treatment and other childhood cancer topics. Explore upcoming and past webinars below, and visit the CCEP website for more resources.
Upcoming Webinars:
The Role of Environmental Health in Pediatric Oncology Clinical Practice
Tuesday, June 16 | 11am PT
Pediatric Oncologists Dr. Nikki Wood (Children’s Mercy Kansas City) and Dr. Omar Shakeel (Texas Children’s Hospital) will share their experiences bringing environmental health into cancer care, highlighting both the creation of a consultative service and practical strategies for integrating this work into everyday clinical practice.
Past Webinars:
Environmental Exposures During the Prenatal and Perinatal Period and Pediatric Cancer Risk
Dr. Joseph Wiemels (University of Southern California) discusses his research on how environmental factors such as diet, chemicals and elective c-sections are related to increased risk of childhood cancers such as leukemia.
Dr. Wiemels is a professor in the Center for Genetic Epidemiology at USC studying the molecular epidemiology of childhood cancers, particularly childhood leukemia and brain cancer.
Guardians of Planetary Health: Moving Childhood Cancer Care Upstream from Day Zero
PEHSU’s Childhood Cancer & the Environment Program hosted this webinar with special guests from Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU-Murcia), Environment and Human Health Laboratory (EH2-Lab)(IMIB “Pascual Parrilla”) and Virgen de la Arrixaca University Clinical Hospital, in Murcia, Spain.
Evaluating the Impacts of the Environment on Pediatric Cancer Risk and Survivorship
Dr. Michael Scheurer, PhD, MPH, FACE, is Professor of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine, Co-Director of the Research and Epidemiology for Adolescent and Child Health (REACH) Center and epidemiologist with the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. His research focuses on identifying environmental and genetic risk factors for pediatric cancer, including childhood brain tumors, and treatment-related and long-term conditions associated with cancer survivorship. He is the current president of the American Society of Preventive Oncology and the immediate past US co-president of the Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium.
See Also: Deepening the Understanding of Environmental Exposures and their Impact on Childhood Cancers
In 2025, the Childhood Cancer and the Environment Program (CCEP) successfully worked with pediatric health care providers, community health workers and the public to increase understanding of the significance of environmental exposures on morbidity and mortality outcomes in cancer survivors.
Originally published by Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units National Program Office
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