{"id":111034,"date":"2020-02-20T22:44:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T22:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cap4kids.org\/newyorkcity\/?p=111034"},"modified":"2025-02-04T19:43:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T19:43:48","slug":"pediatric-environmental-health-specialty-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/newyorkcity\/pediatric-environmental-health-specialty-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"PEHSU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>The Region 2 Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU) provides information about environmental health issues in children. Region 2 PEHSU serves New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and US Virgin Islands.<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Examples of environmental exposures that the PEHSU can assist with are the following:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Air and water pollution.<\/li>\n<li>Heavy metals such as lead and mercury.<\/li>\n<li>Asthma triggers such like mold and pesticides<\/li>\n<li>Chemicals in consumer products.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nPEHSU team is available to discuss environmental concerns with healthcare providers, public health agencies, and the public. All calls are free and confidential.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nContact PEHSU at pehsu@mssm.edu or call (866) 265-6201<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nFor more information about PEHSU visit <a href=\"https:\/\/icahn.mssm.edu\/research\/pehsu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wwww.icahn.mssm.edu\/pehsu<\/a>.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em>Updated on February 4, 2025<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Region 2 Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU) provides information about environmental health issues in children. Region 2 PEHSU serves New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and US Virgin Islands. &nbsp; Examples of environmental exposures that the PEHSU can assist with are the following: Air and water pollution. Heavy metals such as lead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consultation-services","category-environmental-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/newyorkcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/newyorkcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/newyorkcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/newyorkcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/newyorkcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111034"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/newyorkcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119589,"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/newyorkcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111034\/revisions\/119589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/newyorkcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/newyorkcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/newyorkcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}