Ann Backus from the Harvard-NIEHS Center for Environmental Health and member of the Environmental Health Nursing Education Collaborative spoke in Professor Teresa Roberts' Health Assessment class at the University of Massachusetts Boston on March 5, 2008. Both Ann and Teresa are members of the collaborative that also includes the BU SBRP, Boston College, Mass General, and Salem State. The goal of this collaboration is to contribute to the education and training of nurses by helping their faculty integrate environmental health into the nursing curriculum.