Southwest Center for Pediatric Environmental Health

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Join us in celebrating Children’s Environmental Health Day on Oct. 10, 2024.

Children's day 2024

The PEHSU is raising awareness by providing information on children’s vulnerability to environmental health exposures. See who's already on the list, or sign up to confirm your 2024 Partnership on the CEH Day website.

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Welcome

We are the Southwest Center for Pediatric Environmental Health, one of 10 Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSU), a network of experts in children’s environmental health located throughout the United States. The SWCPEH serves the states of Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and New Mexico out of our offices at Texas Tech University HSC El Paso, with consultants in all 5 states.

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Factsheets for Providers

This page is your portal to valuable information on education and prevention.

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Topics for Parents

This page contains information and resources for parents on how children may be impacted by their environment.

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The information contained on this website should not be used as a substitute for the medical care and advice of your/your child’s primary care provider. There may be variations in treatment that your provider may recommend based on individual facts and circumstances.

This webpage was supported by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and funded (in part) by a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (CDC/ATSDR). The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) supports the PEHSUs by providing partial funding to CDC/ATSDR through an Inter-Agency Agreement. The findings and conclusions presented have not been formally disseminated by CDC/ATSDR or EPA and should not be construed to represent any agency determination or policy. Use of trade names that may be mentioned is for identification only and does not imply endorsement by the CDC/ATSDR or EPA.