Center for Communications, Health and the Environment

"The Center for Communications, Health and the Environment (CECHE) is a private, non-profit, 501(C)(3) American institution based in Washington, DC. Founded in 1990, CECHE’s mission is to assist under-served communities in the United States and developing nations worldwide by conceptualizing, catalyzing, and supporting programs to improve health and alleviate the adverse health affects of environmental pollution. CECHE works in partnership with scientists, journalists, educators and policy-makers from the United States, Central Europe, India and other countries. Responsible for a number of projects in the United States and around the globe, CECHE is especially focused on the use of mass media and information technology in programs centered around five areas: school-based and community intervention; environment and public health programs and policy; professional training in media and health; public education; and private voluntary sector development."

Board (May 2000)
Accessed January 2011:


 * Chairman - Dr. Sushma Palmer
 * Vice Chairman - Ambassador Mark Palmer
 * Leonard Silverstein
 * C. Wayne Callaway

Council
Accessed January 2011:


 * Stuart Auerbach Director of Development and Trustee, The Media Development Loan Fund, Washington DC
 * Ranjit Chandra, M.D. Director of Immunology, Janeway Child Health Centre, St. John's, Newfoundland
 * Paula J. Dobriansky, Vice President & Director of Washington Office, Council on Foreign Relations, Washington DC
 * Stephen Gehlbach, M.D. Dean, School of Public Health, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
 * Bernard Goldstein, M.D. Director, Dept. of Environmental and Community Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ
 * Richard Havel, M.D. Former Director, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco
 * Laurence Kolonel, M.D. Deputy Director, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, Honolulu
 * Phyllis Magrab, Ph.D. Director, Child Development Center, Georgetown University, Washington DC
 * Antonia Trichopoulou, M.D. Prof. of Nutrition and Biochemistry, Athens School of Hygiene, Athens, Greece
 * Alexander Balin, Ph.D. Copsa Mica Hospital, Row City, Romania
 * Andrei K. Demin, Ph.D. President, Health and Environmental Foundation, Moscow, Russia
 * Mihaly Kokeny, M.D. Minister of Welfare, Budapest, Hungary
 * Peter Makara, Ph.D. Director, Hungarian National Institute for Health, Budapest, Hungary
 * Rudolf Poledne, Ph.D. Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic
 * Nikolay Rizov, M.D. National Center of Hygiene and Medical Ecology, Sofia, Bulgaria
 * Zofia Slonska, Ph.D. Deputy Head, Dept. of Health Promotion, National Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw, Poland
 * David Zaridze, M.D. Director, Russian Institute of Carcinogenesis, Moscow Russia
 * Junshi Chen, Ph.D. Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, Beijing, China

Contact
URL: www.ceche.org