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Health Provider Engagement

In August 2006, the Children’s Environmental Health Network (CEHN) launched a new effort: “Augmenting Diverse Health Professional Participation in Children’s Environmental Health Concerns and Policy”.

This effort is directed toward increasing the likelihood that governmental decision-making will be informed by scientific principles and by public engagement of health professionals who are knowledgeable about children's health, particularly the health of children in minority and low income communities.

This project further advances CEHN’s long term efforts to increase the capacity of vulnerable communities, as well the environmental health movement as a whole, to respond to threats to children's health and environment and to develop new directions for the improvement of children’s health over the long term.

CEHN is very appreciative for the support by the ENVIRON Foundation in funding this project.

Over the course of the next three years, CEHN will:

• Organize training opportunities for health care professionals serving high-risk populations of color and/or lower social economic status;

• Provide ongoing support and resources to trained leaders to help them advocate, organize, and serve as spokespeople in their communities and at a local level; and

• Begin a national network of these professionals, able to take coordinated leadership roles on local, state, and national initiatives.

For more information about this project or to explore opportunities for collaboration, please contact CEHN’s Executive Director, Nsedu Obot Witherspoon at (202) 543-4033 ext. 14 or nobot@cehn.org