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Nurses for Healthy Environments: Dr. Katie Huffling, DNP, RN, CNM, FAA
Katie Huffling, DNP, RN, CNM, FAAN is a champion of children’s health. As the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments Executive Director, Dr. Huffling works with national nursing organizations on a variety of environmental health issues, including climate change,...
Promoting Healthy Environments for All: Maida Galvez, MD, MPH
Dr. Maida Galvez devotes her clinical, research and advocacy work to promoting healthy environments for all children and families. As a pediatrician and professor in the Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health and the Department of Pediatrics at the...
Making a Safer Nest of the World: An Interview with Alexandra Destler by Jean-Marie Kauth, author, Poisoning Our Children
Author Jean-Marie Kauth interviewed SafetyNEST Founder and CEO Alexandra Destler as part of Kauth's research for her upcoming book, Poisoning Our Children. Alexandra Destler, EdM, earned degrees from Harvard, Cornell, and the Sorbonne and serves as an advisor to NIEHS...
Leading Scientist and National Expect in Chemical and Regulatory Policy, Dr. Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH
Tracey J. Woodruff, PhD, MPH is a leading scientist who has produced seminal research on how harmful chemicals and pollutants impact health, pregnancy, and child development, including the first international study to document the effects of air pollution and preterm...
SafetyNEST Wins 2024 Federal Competition to Reduce Risk of EDCs among Black women
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) Office on Women’s Health (OWH), is awarding six winners for Phase 2 of the HHS Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals (EDC) Innovator Award Competition....
SafetyNEST Founder + CEO Alexandra Destler, EdM
Alexandra Destler, EdM, is a guiding light for women’s health. As SafetyNEST Founder + CEO, she envisions a healthier, toxic-free future for all parents and children. Alexandra has worked steadily over two decades to promote global sustainability. She launched the...
Major Medical Groups Increasingly Warning Of Toxic Chemical Risks To Unborn Babies
During her five-and-a-half-year battle with infertility, Julieta Pisani McCarthy bought organic foods and chose personal care products free of synthetic ingredients such as parabens and phthalates. And when she finally did become pregnant with her first son, Nicolas,...
New Frontiers for SafetyNEST
I started SafetyNEST with the deep conviction that every pregnant woman and family deserves clear, credible, and actionable guidance to safeguard their pregnancy and family. While it is widely accepted that toxic chemical exposure contributes to reproductive, child, and adult disease, addressing these exposures has been largely absent from professional healthcare practice.
SafetyNEST wins 2023 HHS Award to Reduce EDC Exposure for Black Women
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) Office on Women’s Health (OWH), is awarding the 15 winners for Phase 1 of the HHS Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals (EDC) Innovator Award Competition....