I. Leslie Rubin, MD – Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Morehouse School of Medicine, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine; Director, Break the Cycle Program, Southeast Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit, Emory University; President and Founder, Break the Cycle of Health Disparities, Inc.; Medical Director, The Rubin Center for Autism and Developmental Pediatrics, Atlanta, GA, USA
Joav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc – Professor of Pediatrics at the Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Mt Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel, Kentucky Children’s Hospital, University of Kentucky, Lexington, United States and Professor of Public Health at the Center for Healthy Development, School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, United States, the former Medical Director of the Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem and the Founder and Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Israel

Series: Public Health: Practices, Methods and Policies
BISAC: SOC057000; SOC050000
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52305/TQPZ5603

Break the Cycle of Children’s Environmental Health Disparities is an annual, collaborative interdisciplinary research and training program for university students in academic tracks that focus on the impact of adverse social, economic, and environmental factors on children’s health, development, and education. Each participating student is required to develop a project that focuses on preventing or reducing environment-related disorders for children who live in communities where exposure to toxic chemical hazards is compounded by insecurities and stresses related to their circumstances of social and economic disadvantage. The chapters in this book, written by the students on their projects, offer strategies to reduce children’s health disparities and promote health equity for all children at the same time as they provide an asset for the students to enhance their academic or career opportunities. Furthermore, their enhanced knowledge of children’s environmental health and environmental health disparities, as well as their exposure to different perspectives from the other student projects, builds the capacity of the students to become advocates for improving the health and well-being of vulnerable children.

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