Jane Tobias
Associate Professor of Nursing at Thomas Jefferson University and Associate Director of Education at Jefferson Center for Autism and Neurodiversity; pediatric nurse practitioner specializing in children with neurodevelopmental disabilities.
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PODCASTS
Jul 14, 2026
TakayamaHOST
Please welcome Dr. Tobias, who will inform us about addressing environmental health for children and adolescents with disabilities.
Jane TobiasGUEST
I am grateful and I am honored to be speaking with you today on an issue for me that really sits at the intersection of what I do.
Jane TobiasGUEST
Pediatrics, disability and looking at the environment and how we as providers can kind of push the limit on environmental justice.
Jane TobiasGUEST
So children and adolescents with disabilities are not just more affected by environmental hazards.
Jane TobiasGUEST
What we found is that they are more systematically and disproportionately affected both biologically and socially by these hazards.
Jane TobiasGUEST
And throughout the next half hour, we're going to explore what some of those hazards are.
35 MINS LATER
TakayamaHOST
And I'm wondering if, if you have any like best practices, organizations that you particularly like, I know you mentioned them in one of your slides, but in Philadelphia,
TakayamaHOST
Please welcome Dr. Tobias who will inform us about addressing environmental health for children and adolescents with disabilities.
Jane TobiasGUEST
I am grateful and I am honored to be speaking with you today on an issue for me that really sits at the intersection of what I do.
Jane TobiasGUEST
Pediatrics, disability and looking at the environment and how we as providers can kind of push the limit on environmental justice.
Jane TobiasGUEST
So children and adolescents with disabilities are not just more affected by environmental hazards.
Jane TobiasGUEST
What we found is that they are more systematically and disproportionately affected both biologically and socially by these hazards.
Jane TobiasGUEST
And throughout the next half hour, we're going to explore what some of those hazards are.
33 MINS LATER
TakayamaHOST
American...
TakayamaHOST
Please welcome Dr. Tobias, who will inform us about addressing environmental health for children and adolescents with disabilities.
Jane TobiasGUEST
I am grateful and I am honored to be speaking with you today on an issue for me that really sits at the intersection of what I do.
Jane TobiasGUEST
Pediatrics, disability and looking at the environment and how we as providers can kind of push the limit on environmental justice.
Jane TobiasGUEST
So children and adolescents with disabilities are not just more affected by environmental hazards.
Jane TobiasGUEST
What we found is that they are more systematically and disproportionately affected both biologically and socially by these hazards.
Jane TobiasGUEST
And throughout the next half hour, we're going to explore what some of those hazards are.
35 MINS LATER
TakayamaHOST
And I'm wondering if, if you have any like best practices, organizations that you particularly like, I know you mentioned them in one of your slides, but in Philadelphia,