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Mission: The children's environmental health institute (cehi) is committed to decreasing
Programs: The eighth biennial scientific symposium: prenatal environment exposures as a determinant of early childhood and adult disease was held at the mckinney roughs nature park and education center in cedar creek, texas on november 13 & 14, 2014. Leading global experts challenged participants to elevate critical thinking on ways to address the prevention of environmental health risks to children at the 2014 scientific symposium. As with previous symposia, cehi provided prevention- oriented research to support and expand programs addressing environmental health risks to children.
houston initiative and roundtable discussion: the environment related to asthma and respiratory disease in pre-school and school-age children - the final rpeort was prepared and released in 2014. The roundtable discussion was an invitational assembly convened to address the need to improve asthma and respiratory disease (cystic fibrosis, reactive airway disease and recurrent respiratory tract allergies) prevention and management in pre-school and school-age children within the greater houston ar