UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women's Health

Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment

Summit on Environmental Challenges to Reproductive Health and Fertility

Sunday, January 28 - Tuesday, January 30, 2007
UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center, San Francisco, CA

The Summit on Environmental Challenges to Reproductive Health and Fertility was co-sponsored by the UCSF Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences and the Collaborative on Health and the Environment.

The goals of the Summit were:

to review the science linking environmental chemical exposures with reproductive health and fertility compromise, including effects on adult reproductive health that stem from exposures experienced in the womb; and
to discuss new research directions, clinical care approaches, educational tools and policy initiatives that could improve fertility, pregnancy outcomes and reproductive and developmental health.

Research presentations were complemented with discussions by health professionals, policy makers, government regulators, and patient, community, environmental and reproductive health advocates at work "on the ground." In addition, the over 400 participants from these fields collaborated to form a series of recommendations for advancing the field of environmental reproductive health.

Co-Chairs

Linda C. Giudice, MD, PhD, MSc, Professor and Chair, UCSF Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
Philip R. Lee, MD, Founding Chairman, CHE; Chancellor and Professor Emeritus of Social Medicine, UCSF; Former US Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare.

Vice-Chairs

Sally Perreault Darney, PhD, US Environmental Protection Agency
Michael P. Diamond, MD, Wayne State University
Andrea C. Gore, PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Louis J. Guillette, Jr., PhD, University of Florida, Gainesville
Jerrold J. Heindel, PhD, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Germaine M. Buck Louis, PhD, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Ted Schettler, MD, MPH, Science and Environmental Health Network
Shanna H. Swan, PhD, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

Co-Directors

Alison Carlson, Founder and Facilitator, CHE Fertility/Early Pregnancy Compromise Working Group and Senior Fellow, Commonweal Health and Environment Program.
Dixie Horning, Executive Director, UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women's Health
Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor and Director, UCSF Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment

Manager

Mary Wade, MJ, UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women's

Health Funders

We are grateful for the generosity and support of organizations that funded the Summit on Environmental Challenges to Reproductive Health and Fertility:

Adeza Biomedical
Anonymous/Private Foundation
Center for Environmental Health
Collaborative on Health and the Environment
Compton Foundation, Inc.
Fred Gellert Family Foundation
Global Community Monitor/Tides
The John Merck Fund
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
New York Community Trust
Obstetrics and Gynecology Research and Education Foundation
Society of Toxicology
UCSF Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
UCSF Institute for Health Policy Studies
UCSF Center of Excellence in Women's Health
UCSF Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment
US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Children's Health Protection and Environmental Education (provided support for post-Summit publications)
US Environmental Protection Agency Reproductive Toxicology Division (provided travel support for some Summit faculty)
Women's Foundation of California

Professional Society Partners

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
American Society of Andrology
American Society for Reproductive Medicine
The Endocrine Society
Society for Gynecological Investigation
Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research
Society for the Study of Reproduction

Affiliated Societies

American Academy of Environmental Medicine
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Academy of Pediatrics, District 9
Association of Reproductive Health Professionals
American College of Nurse Midwives
Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society
Endometriosis Association
International Society for Environmental Epidemiology
Society for Male Reproduction and Urology
Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility
Society for Women's Health Research

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