In August of 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine hosted an EPA-sponsored workshop to address future priorities of children’s environmental health. The proceedings from the workshop are now available online. 

For Children’s Environmental Health: A Workshop on Future Priorities for Environmental Health Sciences, the National Academies convened experts in epidemiology, toxicology, dose response methodology, and exposure science to explore gaps in knowledge around vulnerabilities to environmental hazards as well as opportunities to inform public policy.

The workshop featured a variety of topics including children’s vulnerability to environmental exposures, recommended research to advance our understanding of children’s health, opportunities to address children's environmental health in risk assessment, implications of the state of the science to improve environmental policies and programs to protect children, and more. 

View recordings of the workshop online. 

The National Academies also plans to release an interactive online summary of the proceedings in the coming months, and EPA will notify our subscribers of its availability.