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2025 Environmental Science, Justice, and Healing Series
The 2025 Environmental Science, Justice, and Healing Series is a multi-session community-partnered series that will address environmental health disparities, including cancer, caused by environmental injustices.
The Series will focus on amplifying local community advocates in our collective goal of remedying environmental injustices while highlighting science and healing as integral aspects of action. Attendees will engage with community members, organizations, and academic researchers who share a mission to address environmental injustices, strengthen community-academic partnerships, and improve health outcomes in our region.
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Reflections on the 2024 Peer-Reviewed Research on Cancer and Environment
A Year in Review
CENSWPA's Science Team has published the 2024 Year in Review, a robust collection of literature documenting both new and known cancer risks due to environmental exposures of concern. This document highlights findings from scientific studies published in 2024 that add to the evidence regarding cancer risks associated with exposures in our environment to support risk reduction/cancer prevention strategies. The scientific studies were queried as part of the development of CENSWPA’s monthly Digest.
We are scientists and survivors.
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We are changemakers and caretakers.
We are leaders in healthcare and business, philanthropy and community, representing organizations across sectors.
We are grounded in science, committed to prevention, and focused on the reduction of hazardous chemicals in our air, water, food, homes, workplaces, and products.
We are diverse in our perspectives, yet united in our vision for a cancer-free Southwestern Pennsylvania.
Reducing Pollution:
Critical Pathway for Cancer Prevention
A Southwestern Pennsylvania Declaration
"The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment.”
Article 1, Section 27, PA Constitution
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In the aftermath of the toxic tragedy of the train derailment in East Palestine, the Cancer and Environment Network of Southwestern Pennsylvania (CENSWPA) is troubled by the lack of a coordinated public health response necessary to research and respond to health concerns now and into the future.
Regional Network Calls on NIH and CDC to Establish a Public Health Research Infrastructure in the Wake of Toxic Disaster
Those impacted by the East Palestine train derailment should have the same access to medical monitoring and health studies put in place after 9/11 and other toxic disasters