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TEDX partnered with other nonprofits to host webinars with scientists conducting endocrine disruption research. We also produced videos and participated in webinars hosted by other organizations. 

beyond tedx

Watch TEDX's final webinar, celebrating 16 years of championing safe environments for healthy hormone functioning. Hear stories about our successes, listen to expert opinions about what’s next for EDCs and fracking chemicals, and learn how to stay connected to the latest resources. Visit the Collaborative on Health and the Environment to learn more about the presentations and the speakers, download the slides and watch the recording of the webinar.

Webinar series: EDC Science Briefs

Learn about the broad range of effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals in these half-hour webinar presentations in which leading scientists present the latest research on endocrine disruption and the immune system, the metabolic system, the brain, behavior and more. (30 min., sponsored by the Collaborative on Health and the Environment's EDC Strategies Partnership) 

2019 Series

• Dr. Ulrike Luderer and Dr. Gail S. Prins: Key Characteristics Approach: Female and Male Reproductive Toxic Hazard Identification
• Dr. Laura Vandenberg: Getting a Clear View: Lessons From the CLARITY-BPA Study
• Dr. Kim Anderson: Silicone Wristbands: Novel Approach to Assess Personal Chemical Exposure
• Dr. Eric E. Nilsson: Glyphosate, Epigenetics and Transgenerational Inheritance of Disease
• Dr. Valérie Siroux: Early-life Environmental Exposures and Child Respiratory Health: The Exposome Reveals Its First Results
• Dr. Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou: Exposure to DES During Pregnancy and Multigenerational Neurodevelopmental Deficits
• Dr. Leo Trasande: Sicker Fatter Poorer: The Urgent Threat of Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals to Our Health and Future...and What We Can Do About It
• Dr. Suzanne Fenton: Evaluation of PFAS for Potential Health Effects

2018 Series

• Dr. Jean-Baptiste Fini: Deciphering Thyroid Hormone Disruption During Development
• Dr. Joseph Braun: Pre-conception Environmental Exposures and Children's Health
• Dr. Tracey Woodruff and Dr. Roy Gerona: Characterizing Multiple Chemical Exposures among a Demographically Diverse Population of Pregnant Women in San Francisco
• Dr. Jerry Heindel: DOHaD and EDCs: Past, Present, and Future
• Dr. Jo Rochester: Does Early Bisphenol A Exposure Cause Hyperactivity in Children?
• Dr. Qi Sun: PFAS and Changes in Body Weight and Resting Metabolic Rate in Response to Weight-loss Diets
• Dr. Bruce Blumberg: The Obesogen Effect: Why We Eat Less and Exercise More but Still Struggle to Lose Weight, A Conversation with Scientist and Author Dr. Bruce Blumberg
• Dr. Anne Marie Vinggaard: Emerging Chemicals in Food Packaging: Toxicological Profiling of Knowns and Unknowns

2017 Series

• Dr. Valerie Hu: Examining Environmental Contributors to Autism
• Ashley Bolden: Melamine: Scoping Review Reveals Potential Endocrine, Reproductive, and Neurotoxic Activities
• Dr. Chris Kassotis: Chemicals in House Dust: Potential Contributors to Obesity and Metabolic Disorders
• Tegan Horan: Successive Generations of Estrogenic Exposure and Male Reproductive Health
• Dr. Melissa Perry: Neonicotinoid Pesticide Exposure, Mechanisms of Action and Human Health Outcomes
• Dr. Ami Zota: Social Disparities in Phthalate Exposures: Implications for Women's Health
• Dr. Jodi Flaws: Effects of Bisphenol A on Female Reproduction
  
• Dr. Heather Stapleton: Sex-Specific Differences in the Accumulation of Brominated Flame Retardants and Thyroid Hormone Regulation in Human Placental Tissue
  

2016 Series

• Dr. Shanna Swan: Acetaminophen and Phthalates: Anti-androgenic Action and Altered Development
  
• Dr. Deborah M. Kurrasch: EDCs: Recent Findings on the Role of BPA and Brain Development
• Dr. Linda Birnbaum: 25 Years of Endocrine Disruption Research: Insights from the Director of NIEHS
• Dr. Remy Slama: Using Science to Set Regulatory Criteria: Identifying Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in the European Union
• Dr. Cheryl Watson: Signaling Mechanisms by Which Xenoestrogen Pollutants Disrupt Normal Estrogenic Signaling
• Dr. Niels Skakkebaek: Increasing Trends in Male Reproductive Disorders, Environmental Exposures, and Implications for Human Health
• Dr. Kim Harley: The Health Costs of Beauty: EDCs in Personal Care Products and the HERMOSA Study

2015 Series

• Dr. Heather Patisaul: Brain Sex Differences During Gestation: The Role of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals
• Dr. Andrea Gore: The Endocrine Society's Second Scientific Statement on Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals
• Dr. John Peterson Myers, Dr. Ana Soto, Dr. Shanna Swan and Dr. Frederick vom Saal: Remembering Dr. Louis Gillette: Scientist, Mentor, Teacher, and Environmental Health Leader
• Leroy Lowe and Dr. William Goodson III: Theories of Carcinogenesis: Assessing the Carcinogenic Potential of Low-Dose Exposures to Chemical Mixtures in the Environment
• Dr. R. Thomas Zoeller and Gwynne Lyons: Identifying EDCs for Public Health Protection: The Endocrine Perspective
• Ashley Bolden: Ambient BTEX Exposure and Hormone-related Health Conditions in Humans
• Stephanie Degroote: Perinatal Exposure to a Mixture of Common Low-Dose Phthalates and Flame Retardants Leads to Autistic Features in Rats
• Dr. Johanna Rochester: Endocrine Disruptive Effects of Bisphenol A Substitutes
• Dr. Susan Nagel: EDCs, Oil and Gas Development, and Groundwater
• Dr. Paige Lawrence: Environmental Exposures and Immune Function

2014 Series

• Dr. Frederick vom Saal: BPA and Health: New Research Focuses on Routes of Exposure
• Dr. Michele La Merrill: Cold Feet: Perinatal DDT Exposure Increases Risk of Insulin Resistance
• Dr. Michael Ross and Dr. Mina Desai: Maternal Bisphenol A Programs Offspring Metabolic Syndrome
• Dr. Juliette Legler: Prenatal Exposure to EDCs and Obesity: Combining Toxicology and Epidemiology
• Retha Newbold: CLARITY-BPA: A Novel Approach to Study Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals
• Dr. Philippe Grandjean: Chemical Brain Drain: How the Next Generation's Brain Functions are Endangered by EDCs and Other Environmental Chemicals
• Dr. Frederica Perera: Effects of Prenatal Exposures to EDCs on Childhood Development
• Dr. Jamie DeWitt: Endocrine Disruption of the Neuro-immune Interface
• Dr. Rodney Dietert: Endocrine Disruption and Immune Dysfunction

presentations by tedx staff

The following are video and webinar presentations given by TEDX staff. More videos can be seen on our YouTube channel.

• HealthSimple podcast with Kyle Reidhead, How Plastic is Damaging our Health & Environment, featured Dr. Carol Kwiatkowski explaining how plastics are affecting our health and environment as well as how we can create change. (45 min., May 2019, Kyle Reidhead)
• Dr. Katie Pelch: Urgent evaluation of links between chlorpyrifos and autism development needed. This webinar was part of a series dedicated to the health and environmental impacts of chlorpyrifos, a pesticide widely used across Europe and of which residues are regularly found in our food.  (27 min., May 2019, hosted by HEAL)
• Dr. Katie Pelch: Protecting Communities from PFAS Chemicals: The Urgent Need for Safe Drinking Water Standards in the Absence of Federal Action. This teleconference call focused on how some states are moving forward to establish protective, enforceable standards for PFAS, including drinking water standards instead of waiting for the EPA to take action. (69 min., April 2019, hosted by CHE-Alaska) 
• The Genius Life podcast with Max Lugavere, How Plastic is Wrecking Your Health, featured Dr. Carol Kwiatkowski talking about how endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) can have major implications for your health. (54 min., January 2019, Max Lugavere)
• The documentary, Unpacked, featured several experts on endocrine disrupting chemicals, including Dr. Carol Kwiatkowski, focusing on chemicals in food packaging and related health effects. (22 min., November 2018, Vimeo)
• Dr. Carol Kwiatkowski: Mamavation TV conducted a live interview discussing Bisphenol A and how to avoid it in daily life. (49 min., May 2018, hosted by Mamavation TV)
• TEDX's Senior Scientist, Dr. Katie Pelch, participated in The Seattle Aquarium's Science and Cocktails: Lightning Talks, presenting Who's to Blame? How Your Trip to the Store May Be Harming Marine Wildlife. (5 min., November 2017, hosted by Seattle Aquarium)
• Dr. Katie Pelch: Toxics in Everyday Life. UCLA Center for Occupational & Environmental Health convened a diverse audience from around the country to participate in an interactive day of learning and discussion, exploring questions about toxics in everyday life. (12 min., June 2017, hosted by UCLA COEH)
• Dr. Carol Kwiatkowski: Endocrine Disruption at the Top of the World: State of the Science with a Message from Alaska. This webinar presented highlights of 25 years of endocrine disruption science, recent scientific advances and how hormone disruption may be a common causative factor in many diseases and disorders of the modern world. (61 min., October 2016, hosted by CHE-Alaska)
• Dr. Carol Kwiatkowski: Protecting Public Health Through Cleaner Fuels and Lower Emissions. At a Congressional Briefing held by the Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) examining the health impacts of current octane sources and the need for cleaner, cost-effective octane providers, TEDX’s recent review of health effects associated with ambient level BTEX exposure and their endocrine disrupting properties was presented. (15 min., December 2015, hosted by EESI)
• Dr. Carol Kwiatkowski: The new SIN List substances and the science behind their inclusion. This presentation was at the launch of the updated SIN List and SINimilarity. (13 min., October 2014, hosted by ChemSec)
• Dr. Carol Kwiatkowski: Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals: Science, Policy, and What You Can Do. This video provides an introduction to endocrine disruption for the lay person. (8 min., April 2014, hosted by TEDX) 
• Dr. Theo Colborn: UNSAFE: The Truth Behind Everyday Chemicals produced by Earth Focus. (27 min., December 2013, Link TV)
• Dr. Carol Kwiatkowski: Endocrine Disruptors in Plastic: Bisphenol A & Phthalates. This webinar is a part of a series on chemicals found in everyday products. (28 min., November 2013, hosted by Green Science Policy Institute)
• Dr. Theo Colborn: Letter to the President: Theo Colborn at TEDxMidAtlantic 2012. Dr. Colborn implores the President and First Lady of the United States to act now to address the failure of current laws to protect the public against endocrine disrupting chemicals. (17 min., October 2012, TEDxMidAtlantic)
• Dr. Carol Kwiatkowski: Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - New Directions in Science and Policy. This presentation discusses why the old system of setting safety standards doesn't work for endocrine disruptors, and how the principles of endocrinology can be used to create a better system. (60 min., July 2012, presented by ACAT's Alaska Collaborative on Health and Environment)
• Dr. Theo Colborn: The Male Predicament, describing how males are particularly susceptible to endocrine disrupting chemicals. (37 min., 2009, TEDX)
• Dr. Theo Colborn: Endocrine Disruption and Environmental Health: Ten Years After Our Stolen Future. This call covered the present state of endocrine disruptors, ten years after the seminal book, Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Own Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival? - A Scientific Detective Story, was published and features the authors: Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski and John Peterson Myers. (60 min., May 2006, presented by the Collaborative on Health and the Environment)