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— Two Day Conference —

Agriculture and Environmental Health for Health Professionals

October 16-17, 2026
Stanislaus State, Stockton, California

Join us for a two-day conference focused on Food Systems, Community Health, and Well-Being.

Earn 13 continuing education (CE) hours for nurses
while exploring important environmental and community health topics.

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Key Events & News Items

Plastics and Your Health — explore the risks and what you can do.

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I recently went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium with my 2- and 4-year-old grandchildren. It is a magical place no matter how old you are. The spectacle that […]

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Members in the News

Terri Olsen, Leadership Council member, represented California Nurses for Environmental Health and Justice at the Annual Ramona Earth Day Festival. We were honored for our dedication to environmental stewardship and service to the community. This recognition reflects the meaningful, ongoing work of our members to protect local environments, support community health, and advance environmental health and justice across California.

Mechelle Perea-Ryan and Erika Alfaro, both CNEHJ Leadership Council members, were appointed to the newly-formed Environmental Justice Advisory Committee of the California Department of Pesticides Regulation.

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Karen Duderstadt helped plan 2 year's worth of Climate Change and Nursing webinars with Columbia University's School of Nursing.

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EDUCATE, INSPIRE, AND ADVOCATE

Climate Change

Climate change is real and is associated with a wide range of effects that will create health and safety risks for our patients and the communities we serve.
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Exposures

In the US, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tests a representative sample of our population every year for the presence of over 300 highly toxic chemicals that should never be found in the human body.
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Food & Agriculture

There are a great many health and safety issues associated with our food systems – a system that is often resulting in food insecurity in many vulnerable populations, harming the farmworkers who are harvesting our food, and ultimately leaving many of us with food choices that are contributing to obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases.
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Fossil Fuels

The biggest contributor to greenhouse gasses comes from our fossil fuel-based energy sources.
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Water

As nurses, we know that the human body is about 60 – 70% water. All life requires water to live.
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Greening Hospitals

Our health care sector represents almost 20% of the Gross National Product. We occupy a huge space in the US economy which translates to enormous use of resources – energy, water, food, products (including more plastics than any other sector), and of course, human resources.
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Farmworkers

Farmworkers endure some of the worst occupational hazards and exposures known to any industry. They live on the margins in poverty and are often food insecure.
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Air Quality & wildfires

California has the dubious distinction of having many of the worst air polluted cities in the country. More than 90% of Californians breathe unhealthful air during some part of the year, harming people’s health and the economy, not counting fire smoke-related air pollution.
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Learn How to be an Environmental Health and Justice Activist!

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Leadership

The California Nurses for Environmental Health & Justice Leadership Council is made up of nurses from around the state who meet bi-weekly to help coordinate nurses’ environmental health engagement in California.

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