NCSE

7th National Conference: Integrating Environment and Human Health

Conference Agenda

Thursday, February 1, 2007
8 am	Registration & Continental Breakfast
9 am	Keynote Address: Environment and Health: An Intimate Connection Howard Frumkin, Director, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Video --- Transcript --- PowerPoint Presentation
10 am	Plenary Roundtable – Strong Connections Case examples showing the connections among environmental quality, wildlife health and human health. Avian Flu – Steven Salzberg, Ph.D., Horvitz Professor of Computer Science and Director, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park Arsenic – Joe Graziano, Associate Dean, Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Cholera – Rita Colwell, Honorary Chairman, Canon U.S. Life Sciences and Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University Climate change– Jonathan Patz, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies and Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison Moderator: Rita Colwell, Honorary Chairman, Canon U.S. Life Sciences and Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University
11 am	Plenary Roundtable – Systems Thinking Facilitated discussion with moderator about root causes, threats, drivers for unhealthy outcomes, stressors and topical issues Milt Friend, Director Emeritus, USGS National Wildlife Health Center Audrey Chapman, Healey Memorial Chair in the Medical Humanities and Bioethics, University of Connecticut Health Center Larry Murillo, One Sky Center, Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University Francesca T. Grifo, Senior Scientist and Director, Scientific Integrity Program Moderator: Bernard Goldstein, Dean Emeritus, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh
12:15 pm	Lunch Book Signing: URBAN SPRAWL AND PUBLIC HEALTH Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities, Howard Frumkin Film: The Beloved Community, Pamela Calvert
1:30– 5 pm	Breakout Sessions (concurrent) - There will be specific case studies for each theme Decisionmaking in the Real World Guiding and Fostering Multi-disciplinary Research Expanding Understanding: Information, Education and Communication View draft recommendations here
5:30 pm	NCSE Lifetime Achievement Award Theo Colborn, President, The Endocrine Disruption Exchange Transcript Herbert Needleman, Professor of Child Psychiatry and Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
6 pm	*7th John H. Chafee Memorial Lecture on Science and the Environment* Larry Brilliant, Executive Director, Google.org Video -- Report
7 pm	Reception

Friday, February 2, 2007
8 am	Continental Breakfast
9 am	Plenary Lecture: The Environment and Health: Developing Solutions Dr. Mirta Roses Periago, Director, Pan American Health Organization, Regional Director, Regional Office for the Americas, World Health Organization. Refer to the following link for a recent publication by WHO: "Preventing Disease through Healthy Environments: Toward and Estimate of the Environmental Burden of Disease." Press Release
10 am	Symposia – 5 Concurrent Sessions Decisionmaking in the Real World (Powerpoint presentations available by Henry A. Anderson, Robert Donkers, Barbara Smisko, and Gary Erbeck) Guiding Research (Powerpoint presentations available by Joseph A. Graziano and Carol Henry) Expanding Understanding Avian Flu (Powerpoint presentations available from Sharon Kemer, Townshend Peterson, Steven Salzberg, and Marguerite Pappaioanou) New Orleans and Katrina: Environment and Health Causes and Consequences
12:00 pm	Buffet Lunch (with youth mentoring tables) Book Signing: LIVES PER GALLON The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction, Terry Tamminen
1:30 pm	Plenary Roundtable – One World, One Health, One Science, One Education Moderator: Richard Joseph Jackson, MD MPH, Adjunct Professor, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health Discussants: Val Beasley, Professor of Veterinary, Wildlife, and Ecological Toxicology, Department of Veterinary Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Christopher Portier, Director, Office of Risk Assessment Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH John Warner, Director, Center for Green Chemistry, and Professor, Plastics Engineering,University of Massachusetts-Lowell Lloyd Pinkham, Middle School Teacher, Union Gap, Washington and member of Native American Academy
2:45 pm	Plenary Roundtable – Healthy People, Healthy Planet: From Evidence to Action Moderator: Peter Dykstra, Executive Producer, CNN Discussants: Mary Nichols , Director, University of California- Los Angeles Institute for the Environment Georges Benjamin, Executive Director, American Public Health Association Arthur Gibson, Vice-President, Environment, Health, and Safety, Baxter Healthcare Corporation Terry Tamminen, Special Advisor for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, author of “Lives Per Gallon: The True Costs of Our Oil Addiction”
4 pm	Adjourn