For over a decade, we have educated NC health professionals and residents about lead as an environmental health hazard for young children. Those efforts were recently expanded to partner with NC DHHS to implement federal guidelines aimed at protecting pregnant women and their children from lead poisoning.
The Center for Public Engagement with Science (CPES) facilitates statewide outreach for the NC Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program to increase knowledge about lead and other environmental health hazards in homes among health and childcare professionals and families in high-risk communities. We regularly co-convene the NC Lead and Healthy Homes Outreach Task Force, a network of local, state, and federal public health and housing agencies.
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Related Resources
- 2023 Clinical Lead Training Recording (External Link)
- Cleaning Up Take-Home Lead Dust in Your Home and Car | Spanish Version (PDF)
- Keeping Lead at Work and Preventing Take-Home Lead Exposure | Spanish Version (PDF)
- Lead and Pregnancy Brochure | Spanish Version (PDF)
- Lead in Spices and Other Cultural Items | Spanish Version (PDF)
- Lead Poisoning Can Be Prevented Brochure | Spanish Version (PDF)
- NC Healthy Homes Website (Lead Poisoning Prevention) (External Link)
- Short Term Actions to Prevent Exposure to Lead | Spanish Version (PDF)
- Understanding Bioavailability of Arsenic and Lead (Facilitator guide) (PDF)
- Understanding Bioavailability of Arsenic and Lead (Fact sheet) (PDF)
- Understanding Bioavailability of Arsenic and Lead (Slides) (PDF)
Program Contact
Neasha B. Graves,
Environmental Health Outreach Manager, Center for Public Engagement with Science
(919) 966-3746neasha_graves@unc.edu
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- Children’s Environmental Health Branch, NC Department of Health and Human Services
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