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Are Environmental Toxins Haunting Our Kids?

by Angelina Angelo
October 13, 2022

Ghosts and ghouls aren’t the only things children should be scared of during the spooky Halloween season. October is Children’s Environmental Health Month. There are many environmental hazards and toxins that kids are exposed to daily that are far scarier than ghosts and ghouls, and many are invisible to parents.

2022 Dean’s Fellow in Environmental Health Sciences

The UC Davis School of Medicine Environmental Health Sciences Dean's Fellowship is for promising junior to mid-career faculty in the SOM to accelerate their career development and create a path for others to follow in the area of environmental health sciences. Below are the EHS Dean's Fellow award recipients for 2022.

Children's health and the environment

Why are children more vulnerable to their environment?

There are a variety of reasons children are especially vulnerable when it comes to toxins and other hazards they may encounter in their environment:

What environmental factors affect health?

It’s not just what you’re exposed to that matters

The truth is, it’s challenging to pin down exactly what factors cause an environmental health problem. Health problems related to the environment are complex and develop for a variety of reasons, including how likely a person’s genes are to develop a disease or condition (scientists call this genetic susceptibility). What we do know is that an environmental health problem is likely linked to physical, biological and even economic factors.