The PEHE Forum

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On November 20 and 21, 2014, The Sandbox Project’s Environment Working Group presented a Prenatal Environmental Health Education Forum at the University of Ottawa. Over two days of presentations and discussions, many new ideas about strategies for improving prenatal environmental health education were generated. The PEHE Forum built partnerships among nearly one hundred prenatal health practitioners, researchers, educators, policy makers, environmental health experts and students from across Canada and the U.S., inspired by the need to improve environmental health education. To our knowledge, it was the first-ever Canadian forum of this kind.

Seventeen scheduled presenters covered topics including environmental epidemiology and toxicology, high-risk populations, current prenatal environmental health educational practices, and barriers and opportunities for integrating environmental health educational programs into prenatal practice. 

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The PEHE Forum was made possible through the collaboration and/or support of the following organizations:

  • Environmental Working Group, The Sandbox Project

  • The University of Ottawa

  • Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health & Environment (CPCHE)

  • Health Canada

  • The Centre for Environmental Health Equity

  • Shoppers Drug Mart

  • The International Society for Children’s Health and the Environment (ISCHE)

  • The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada

  • The National Aboriginal Council of Midwives (NACM)

  • The Environmental Health Institute (EHI) of Canada

  • The Canadian Association of Midwives

  • Canadian Paediatric Society, Paediatric Environmental Health Section

  • UCSF Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE)

  • Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)

  • Toronto Public Health

For more information or to read the forum report, click here.

Videos of the keynote and panel presentations can be found here.