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Radon Awareness in Schools & Child Care

Date
Jan 25, 2024
Time
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Venue
Zoom
Organizer
Women for a Healthy Environment
Learn about radon’s health effects and action steps that schools and childcare can take to protect their children from radon exposure.
- Speakers:
- Stacy Sowers, Radiation Health Physicist at the PA Department of Environmental Protection
- Topic: An overview of radon, its health risks, and approaches for testing and mitigation, with a focus on radon in Pennsylvania’s child care facilities
- John Mallon, CEO of Radon Detection and Control LLC, Inc.
- Topic: An overview of Radon testing and mitigation procedures in schools and childcare
- Stacy Sowers, Radiation Health Physicist at the PA Department of Environmental Protection
- Moderators:
- Pecola Abele MPH, Director of Healthy Learning. Women for a Healthy Environment
- Randy Persaud, MPH(c) Program Assistant, Women for a Healthy Environment