How to Raise Non-Toxic Kids in a Toxic World

David Steinman is an award-winning journalist who has written best-selling and critically acclaimed books on the environment and health. His work in the area of safe cosmetics, taken from the forthcoming book Raising Healthy Kids is featured in the HBO Max documentary Not So Pretty.

His investigative reporting and writing have won awards from Best of the West, California Newspaper Publishers’ Association, Sierra Club, and the Green Book Festival. He’s also the full-time chief officer of the non-profit Chemical Toxin Working Group (CTWG, also known as the Healthy Living Foundation), a public-interest environmental and consumer advocacy organization that takes legal action and litigates on behalf of consumers and the environment. CTWG has won major court and legal cases against brands such as Herbal Essences, Pantene, Chicken of the Sea, Bumble Bee, Alberto VO5, Trader Joe’s, and Mrs. Meyers for selling products with high amounts of toxic chemicals that required their removal or labeling.

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Forever Chemicals That Could Be Harming Your Health

Dr. Syra Madad is an internationally recognized public health leader and epidemiologist in infectious disease and special pathogen preparedness and response. She is Senior Director, System-wide Special Pathogens Program at New York City Health and Hospitals, the nation’s largest municipal healthcare delivery system overseeing special pathogen preparedness and response efforts across 11 acute care hospitals in addition to post-acute/long-term care facilities and ambulatory care sites.

Dr. Madad’s work focuses on the preparedness for, response to and recovery from infectious disease outbreaks with an emphasis on health care and public health biopreparedness. Dr. Madad has led multiple outbreak responses including Ebola, Zika, Measles, candida auris, and recently, COVID19. Dr. Madad has over 50 publications, and has been a guest speaker at over 70 scientific and medical conferences around the world.

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