3266 Environmental Health Perspectives: An Interdisciplinary Journal Reaches Out

Saturday, February 19, 2011: 8:30 AM
145A (Washington Convention Center )
Banalata Sen , National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC
This presentation will focus on outreach by the journal Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP). It will describe EHP’s efforts to strengthen journals in developing countries, including partnerships with journals in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. It will discuss EHP’s initiative to offer scientific-writing workshops worldwide. It also will summarize EHP’s high-school and college science-education program, which includes more than 100 interdisciplinary lessons based on articles in the journal.