THK's 2010 Woman's health and environment conference you can view online if you register

Inspired by the power and the success of the first Women's Health & The Environment conference in Boston 14 years ago, Teresa Heinz extended the program to Pittsburgh where it was immediately embraced.

This year marks Pittsburgh's third conference, a day that brings together more than 2,000 women and men for a informative and free program that features national speakers and the freshest research out there on health issues, environmental toxins and public policy.

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"The more good information we get and the more questions we ask, the more we can make informed choices and live healthier lives," says Heinz. "Here's why: Ignorance and indecision kill; knowledge and responsible action save lives. That is why the Pittsburgh conference is giving us direct access to some of this country's best experts on the connections between our health and our environment. That includes the two Obama administration officials who are at the forefront of issues affecting health and the environment."
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The conference is on April 21st beginning at 9 p.m. at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center.For those who can't attend, the entire day will be streamed live for the first time, but you must register by April 18th!

When I convened the first conference on Women's Health & the Environment in Boston fourteen years ago, I wanted to arm women with information about the relationship between the environment and their health.

Useful information was hard to come by then. There was a shocking lack of scientific research and policy discussion on the potential environmental causes of rising rates of various types of illness. It was almost as though no one wanted to consider the possibility that we might be poisoning ourselves through our environment.

But the 1,000 women who attended that first conference got the idea immediately. They were moms, sisters, daughters and caregivers, and no one needed to tell them what the stakes were. Everyone there had lost a friend or loved one to breast cancer or some other disease, or had seen a child suffer from asthma or autism. And everyone there had at least wondered at some time whether the environment might be connected somehow.

At the very least, they wanted to know more. And they wanted scientists and policymakers to have the courage to ask the question with them: How is our health being affected by the environment, and what can we do about it?