Defend Our Health

Defend Our Health works to create a world where all people are thriving with equal access to safe food and drinking water, healthy homes, and products that are toxic-free and climate-friendly. As a public health and social justice organization, our strategic approach generates impact. We combine science-based advocacy with grassroots organizing in strategic issue campaigns that persuade decision makers in government and industry to act.

Defend Our Health believes that everyone has a right to safe food, safe drinking water, healthy homes, and products that are toxic-free and environmentally friendly. We're armed with a strategy to forge diverse coalitions, empower grassroots communities, and drive marketplace change. We're passing precedent-setting legislation at every level of government and impacting corporate chemical policy to protect human health. As a result, we're preventing disability, disease, and early deaths while improving the health of our communities and the environment.

Testimonials

1,400 - The number of chemicals of concern that threaten the health of babies and children we identified in consumer products.

2,500 - The number of Maine people we helped gain access to testing of well water for arsenic and other toxic pollutants.