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As the Institute for Children's Environmental Health, ICEH has taken an active role in building collaboration, creating materials and educating audiences from researchers and policymakers to health-care providers and parents.

Endorsements

Ted Schettler, MD, MPH: "ICEH sets the standard for showing how cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional collaborations can work and make a real difference. The landscape of children's environmental health has fundamentally changed because of ICEH, and we are all very, very grateful."

Dr. Schettler is science director of the Science and Environmental Health Network and first author of books including Generations at Risk: Reproductive Health and the Environment (MIT Press, 1999) and In Harm's Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development. He is the science advisor for CHE.

Martha Reed Herbert, MD, PhD: "Efficiently using limited resources, ICEH demonstrates that persistence, integrity and intelligence are what will ultimately create lasting social change – something we desperately need today to ensure a healthy future for our children."

Dr. Herbert is a pediatric neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Morphometric Analysis/Pediatric Neurology in Charlestown, Massachusetts and assistant professor of neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.

Roger Rosenblatt, MD, MPH, MFR: "By stimulating new ideas and shared activities, ICEH has filled a vacuum for so many of us hungry for more effective collaboration between researchers, health professionals, state agencies and environmental health and justice leaders alike."

Dr. Rosenblatt is professor and vice chair of the University of Washington Department of Family Medicine

Peggy Shepard: "Through its strategic convenings and important dialogues with diverse constituencies, ICEH has played an early and continuing role in the development of the children's environmental health field. This kind of vision and leadership amplifies all our work."

Ms. Shepard is executive director and cofounder of WE ACT for Environmental Justice (West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc.).

Awards

Children's Environmental Health Champion Award, October 2008

The US Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Children's Health Protection and Environmental Education recognized Elise Miller, MEd, founder and executive director of the Institute for Children's Environmental Health (ICEH), as one of 12 honorees to receive a 2008 Children's Environmental Health Champion Award for outstanding commitment to protecting children from environmental health risks.

Citizen of the Month, June 2005

ICEH Executive Director Elise Miller was named the "Citizen of the Month" by the Seattle-based Evergreen Monthly magazine for her national and regional work on children's environmental health issues.

Health Hero Award, April 2004

ICEH Executive Director Elise Miller received the "Health Hero" award from the Washington State Island County Health Department in April 2004 for ICEH's outstanding efforts to ensure the health of residents of Island County. One of ICEH's actions was to help local groups pass an ordinance to ban pesticide spraying on county roads.

Additional Kudos

Regarding the April 2004 PCHE meeting:
"The Partnership represents a collective body of knowledge – and expertise! – that we can only access when we get together like this. The commonalities and shared purposes among the groups within the Partnership make this face-to-face meeting the perfect breeding ground for dramatically productive collaborations. The room was practically smoking with synergy!"

Jane Browning, Executive Director, Learning Disabilities Association of America

Regarding the May 2004 LDDI meeting:
"We aren't often lucky to be able to work with people who have the enthusiasm, knowledge, ability and verve that you do...you managed to get the first full-blown LDDI meeting out of the starting gate like Secretariat."

Francis Hatch, Chair of the Board, The John Merck Fund

Regarding ICEH's website, December 2008:
"I wanted to thank you for the information your website provides on mental health /learning disabilities and environmental exposure. The information has been useful in the trainings we do for childcare professionals and has been well received."

Lenore Rubin, PhD, Consulting Psychologist PH-SCK, Childcare Health Team

Regarding ICEH's coordination and bulletin for CHE-Washington, January 2009:
"I have LEARNED so much about the environment and its effect on health since I have attended the meetings of CHEWA and received this bulletin. The information has been helpful to me and to the many people to whom I have passed it on."

Mary Bartholet, RN, MS, Professor Emerita, College of Nursing, Seattle University