Healthy Homes Grand Rounds 3/28/2023

Tuesday, March 28, 2023, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Boston,

The Pediatric Environmental Health Center at Boston Children's Hospital and the New England Region Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU) welcome health professionals to attend the monthly virtual Pediatric Environmental Health (PEH) Grand Rounds.

This Grand Rounds series will provide healthcare providers with state-of-the-science content on current topics in pediatric environmental health. Such information will fill in the knowledge gaps of practitioners, enabling them to effectively counsel families whose children face possible health issues due to environmental chemicals, toxins, and other insults. The PEH Grand Rounds will also educate on practice strategies for the biomonitoring of children at risk for specific exposures to environmental pollutants. 

Course Format 
This course will be Presented online via Zoom, optimizing virtual interactions between faculty and participants and facilitating interactive discussions.

Course Topic 
The Intersection of Climate Change, Vector-Borne Diseaseand Reproductive Health

Speakers:
Wylie, MD MPH

There has been a global rise in infectious disease outbreaks and a notable tripling of vector-borne illnesses in concert with the warming climate. In this seminar, we will review the contribution of ongoing anthropogenic climate change to the emergence and resurgence of infectious diseases, focusing on vector-borne infections that are particularly harmful during pregnancy, such as Zika virus, malaria, and dengue virus. The burden of illness from these infections is not equally distributed across the globe; populations in the Global South disproportionately bear the brunt of these infections, yet whose daily activities contribute drastically less to ongoing climate change. We will also address how some infection control strategies, such as insecticide use for vector control, can also adversely impact reproductive health, requiring a careful balancing of both risks/benefits of disease and control strategies by policymakers, clinicians, and individuals.

A short Q&A will follow the presentation.

1. Describe how the intensifying climate change crisis has impacted the emergence of novel infections (Zika virus) and increased the reach of other infections (malaria, dengue) that negatively impact pregnancy and reproductive health.
2. Review how these infections differentially impact populations around the globe with disproportionate impact on communities made poor.
3. Understand complexity of how strategies used to control infections (e.g., vector control with insecticides) may also negatively impact reproductive health.

To register, please click the register tab above and complete the form. If this is your first time registering for a course at Boston Children's Hospital, you will need to create an account. Please use an email address that you check frequently, as it will be used to send important information about the course. 

General Admission (CE Credits):    $25.00

General Admission (No CE Credits): Free

Pre-registration is required. Once you have registered, you will receive a confirmation email with a registration receipt. Course access instructions will be sent 24 hours prior to the course launch. Please use an email you check frequently to ensure that you receive all of this important information. 

If you have questions or need assistance with registration, please direct all inquiries to cmedepartment@childrens.harvard.edu. 

In support of improving patient care, Boston Children's Hospital is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Disclosure Policy
Boston Children's Hospital adheres to all ACCME Essential Areas, Standards, and Policies. It is Boston Children’s policy that those who have influenced the content of a CME activity (e.g. planners, faculty, authors, reviewers and others) disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial entities so that Boston Children's may identify and resolve any conflicts of interest prior to the activity. These disclosures will be provided in the activity materials along with disclosure of any commercial support received for the activity. Additionally, faculty members have been instructed to disclose any limitations of data and unlabeled or investigational uses of products during their presentations.

CME - AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hours), Non-Physician (Attendance) (1.00 hours), CNE (Nursing) (1.00 hours), NP: CME Credit (1.00 hours), PA: CME Credit (1.00 hours)

This Grand Rounds was supported by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and funded (in part) by a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (CDC/ATSDR).  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) supports the PEHSUs by providing partial funding to CDC/ATSDR through an Inter-Agency Agreement. The findings and conclusions presented have not been formally disseminated by CDC/ATSDR or EPA and should not be construed to represent any agency determination or policy. Use of trade names that may be mentioned is for identification only and does not imply endorsement by the CDC/ATSDR or EPA.