In 2019, the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments launched the first-of-its-kind Environmental Health Nurse Fellowship program. Funded by the Kresge Foundation, the program focused on environmental health equity and justice, specifically addressing the disproportionate impact of environmental exposures on vulnerable groups. Paired with expert environmental health nurse mentors, throughout the year the fellows not only worked on community projects, they also worked on educating health professionals and colleagues in their communities about environmental health in order to expand knowledge and engagement of health professionals on critical environmental health issues. This webinar showcases the experiences of the ANHE Environmental Health Nurse Fellows in cohort 2 and the impacts of their work.
Learning Objectives:
Describe the structure and goals of the ANHE Environmental Health Nurse Fellowship in building nurses-community partnerships to address environmental health issues.
Discuss three experiences from the Environmental Health Nurse Fellows that participated in the second cohort of the ANHE Fellowship program.
Identify barriers, lessons learned, and strategies to overcome challenges in developing and fostering nurses-community partnerships.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 17198, for 1 contact hour until August 9, 2025.
