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The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is a coalition of women’s, public health, labor, environmental health and consumer-rights groups. Their goal is to protect the health of consumers and workers by requiring the health and beauty industry to phase out the use of chemicals linked to cancer, birth defects and other health problems, and replace them with safer alternatives.
The Cancer Prevention Coalition
The Cancer Prevention Coalition (CPC) is a unique nationwide coalition of leading independent experts in cancer prevention and public health, together with citizen activists and representatives of organized labor, public interest, environmental, and women's health groups. Their goal is to reduce escalating cancer rates through a comprehensive strategy of outreach, public education, advocacy, and public policy initiatives to establish prevention as the nation's foremost cancer policy. Samuel S Epstein, MD, professor emeritus of Environmental and Occupational Medicine at the University of Illinois School of Public Health, founded and chairs the Coalition.
Center for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
CDC's Mission is "to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability."
CDC's Vision for the 21st Century is "Healthy People in a Healthy World—Through Prevention."
Center for Health & Environmental Research
CHER is a multidisciplinary research centre located in the University of British Columbia and funded by the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. CHER is comprised of a multidisciplinary team of investigators all of whom have a common mission: to research and prevent diseases caused by hazards in outdoor and indoor environments. Hazards under investigation include: air pollution, emerging water and bioaerosols, environmental noise, indoor air pollutants and occupational exposures.
The Center for Health, Environment & Justice
Lois Gibbs founded CHEJ after winning the nation’s first community relocation of 900 families due to a leaking toxic waste dump in Love Canal, New York. CHEJ was instrumental in establishing some of the first national policies critical to protecting community health like the Superfund Program, Right-to-Know and others. By pioneering the effort nationwide to protect communities from exposures to dangerous environmental chemicals, in the air, water and soil, CHEJ has become the preeminent national leader among grassroots groups reducing the burden of toxic substances on our environment.
- Their BE SAFE Campaign works with hundreds of groups across the country to build a national precautionary movement through advocacy, educational events, organizing and technical support to groups working on local and state precautionary policies, and distributing cutting-edge resources, publications and model precautionary policies.
- Their Child Proofing Our Communities campaign educates communities on children's special health vulnerabilities and brings together community leaders to collaborate on efforts prevent harm in their communities.
- CHEJ also coordinates a national campaign working to phase out PVC, the most dangerous plastic to our health and environment. The campaign, which features a cute, funny animated detective spoof, Sam Suds and the Case of PVC, the Poison Plastic, has in three years convinced dozens of companies, from Adidas to Volvo, to phase out PVC plastics in their products and packaging.
Center for Healthy Environments & Communities
The Center for Healthy Environments and Communities (CHEC) exists to help individual and communities identify the most important environmental problems facing them; empowering and energizing them with tools to prioritize and develop their own action plans towards more sustainable solutions to a healthy environment. CHEC was founded in the Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh in 2004 under a grant from the Heinz Endowments. CHECs mission is to advance an aggressive community-based participatory environmental health agenda through research, outreach, policy development and programs to improve environmental health in the southwestern Pennsylvania region.
Collaborative on Health & the Environment
The Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE) is a diverse partnership of individuals and organizations working collectively to advance knowledge and effective action to address growing concerns about the links between human health and environmental factors.
Cornell University Program on Breast Cancer & Environmental Risk Factors
The Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors (BCERF) at Cornell University is devoted to lowering the risk and incidence of cancer by promoting methods of sound decision-making at personal and public levels.
Healthy Child Healthy World is dedicated to protecting the health and well being of children from harmful environmental exposures. We educate parents, support protective policies, and engage communities to make responsible decisions, simple everyday choices, and well-informed lifestyle improvements to create healthy environments where children and families can flourish.
Educate
Increase awareness of preventable harmful chemical carcinogens and environmental exposures based on research and warnings from current sound science of leading experts in the fields of cancer, human health, and the environment. Forewarned is forearmed.
Unify
Unite the multitude of individuals, organizations and programs and harness the strength in numbers. Collaboration is power.
Transform
Mobilize people and businesses to prevent toxic pesticide misuse, eliminate unnecessary carcinogenic chemicals from food and cleaning supplies, and erase the carcinogenic substances that still remain in the water, soil and plants from years of repeated exposures. Action for change.
Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation
The Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation is the nonprofit collaboration of patients and families, physicians, advocates, and researchers dedicated to eradicating the life-ending and vicious effects of mesothelioma
Rachel's Democracy & Health News
Our main goal is to strengthen democracy by helping people find the information they need to fight for environmental justice in their own communities. We believe that grass-roots action is the effective lever for change in our neighborhoods and that informed citizens are the essential backbone of a strong democracy and a healthy environment.
To accomplish our goal, we provide information to grass-roots community activists, environmentalists, journalists, librarians, and others. We specialize in information on hazardous substances and hazardous technologies, including landfills, incinerators, pesticides, organochlorine compounds, risk assessments, and their effects on human and environmental health. Much of the information we have to offer can be found in our newsletter, Rachel's Environment & Health News (which is available free by E-mail) and in our other publications.
Silent Spring Institute is a partnership of scientists, physicians, public health advocates, and community activists united around the common goal of identifying and changing the links between the environment and women's health, especially breast cancer. This collaboration began when activists from the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition recognized the need for a new type of research organization to find preventable causes of breast cancer.
Silent Spring Institute is named in recognition of Silent Spring, Rachel Carson's pioneering book that tied the use of pesticides to adverse effects on wildlife.
Women's Health and the Environment
The Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE) produced this website using the materials and wisdom of many individuals and organizations. CHE is a diverse partnership of individuals and organizations working collectively to advance knowledge and effective action to address growing concerns about the links between human health and environmental factors.
