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2024

2023

Finger Lakes Lead Summit

The Finger Lakes Lead Summit brought together 46 individuals from 27 organizations in Canandaigua on Tuesday September 19, 2023 to partner for increasing protection of rural Finger Lakes families as they deal with lead exposure.

2022

January 2021

December 2020

November 2020

  • Sandra Jee, M.D., M.P.H. becomes Medical Director of the Finger Lakes Children's Environmental Health Center

October 2020

  • FLCEHC celebrated Children's Environmental Health Day on October 8, 2020 with other NYSCHECK centers across NYS
  • Sandra Jee, M.D., M.P.H. completed NYSCHECK's two year Pediatric Environmental Health Scholar program

September 2020

April 2020

January 2020

  • Sandra Jee M.D., our FLCEHC Pediatric Environmental Health Scholar, participated in a WXXI Connections panel discussion about "How to have conversations with young people about climate anxiety"

2018

2017

  • Beginning of NYS DOH funded 5 year grant - Children’s Environmental Health Center Network. Finger Lakes is one of 7 center across the state. Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning is added as official community partner.

2014

2013

  • New York State’s Children and the Environment Report from the Children’s Environmental Health Center Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai “recommends the creation of a statewide network of Centers of Excellence in Children’s Environmental Health to be funded on a permanent and sustainable basis and coordinated through the New York State Department of Health.”

2007