Title: APHA Annual Meeting 2005-- Program Update
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Section/SPIG: Environment
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The APHA 133rd Annual Meeting will now be held in Philadelphia from Saturday, Dec. 10 through Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2005. The theme is “Evidence-Based (Public Health) Policy and Practice.” Authors accepted to present at the Annual Meeting must become an APHA member as well as register for the Annual Meeting. For more details, please see http://www.apha.org and the current issues of The Nation’s Health and the American Journal of Public Health, as well as the Environment Section information below.
[EDITOR NOTE: PLEASE NOTE CHANGE IN LOCATION AND DATE DUE TO HURRICANE KATRINA’S DAMAGE TO GULF STATES, INCLUDING NEW ORLEANS. THE PROGRAM IN PHILADELPHIA IS FOR THE MOST PART THE SAME, EXCEPT FOR EXACT LOCATIONS OF SESSIONS, MEETINGS AND EVENTS AND A FEW ADDITIONAL SESSIONS TO BE DETERMINED BY APHA HEADQUARTERS. PLEASE SEE THE APHA WEB SITE AND FUTURE E-MAILS FOR FINAL DETAILS. THIS IS THE PROGRAM AS OF LATE AUGUST 2005.]
(B = business meeting, S = social, O = oral, P = poster, R = roundtable format):
Sunday
December 11
8:00–9:30 a.m.
B 202.0 Environment Section Business Meeting I
10:00–11:30 p.m.
B 218.0 Environment Section Business Meeting II
2:15–5:30 p.m. FIELD TRIP (?)
5:30–7:00 p.m. New Connections Reception
Monday
December 12
6:30–8:00 a.m.
B 305.0 Environment Section Business Meeting III
8:30–10:00 a.m.
O 3019.0 Making Health A Priority In Environmental Protection
O 3020.0 Tools for Assessing Exposure to Metals
O 3024.0 Environmental Health Epidemiology
O 3026.0 Evidence-Based Environmental Approaches to Improving Nutrition and Physical Activity: A Gumbo of Projects from New Orleans
O 3048.0 Communication Strategies for Worker Safety and Health
10:30-12:00 p.m.
O 3098.0 Building Diverse Constituencies and Environmental Public Health Tracking
O 3099.0 Practical Science: Why Community-Driven Research Initiatives Are More Effective
O 3100.0 Methods to Consider For An Effective Environmental Health Practice
O 3104.0 The Obesity Epidemic: Getting Beyond Individual Choice
O 3126.0 Evidence-Based Recommendations to Improve Immigrant Worker Health
O 3127.0 Health Care Workers: Safety and Health Hazards and Controls
12:30–2:00 P.M.
O 3185.0 Environment Section Homer N. Calver Award Luncheon
O 3186.0 Bioterrorism Preparedness: Epidemiology Training Needs in State and Local Health
O 3211.0 Occupational Respiratory Disease: Surveillance and Solutions
2:30–3:30 P.M
P 3231.0 Environmental Section Student Poster Award Session
P 3232.0 Pathways Of Environmental Exposure
P 3233.0 Health Investigations And Assessments Across The Map
P 3229.0 APHA Student Assembly Poster Session I
P 3245.1 Assessing Health Factors and Impacts
2:30–4:00 P.M
O 3273.0 Healthier Meat, Milk, and Families: Getting Beneficial Fats from Sustainable, Less Toxic Sources
O Health At The Border
O Bioterrorism: In Rural Communities and Family Preparedness
O Health and Public Health in Vietnam I
4:30–6:00 p.m.
O 3362.0 Asthma: Environmental Triggers And Lessons Learned
O Community Health Assessment: Methods And Applications
O Neurotoxicants and Children's Health: The Interplay of Policy, Economics, Research and Education
O From a Level Playing Field to a Healthy One: Environmental and Health Protection in the Context of North American Free Trade – Challenges and Opportunities
O Health and Public Health in Vietnam II
6:30–8:00 p.m.
S 340.0 Environment Section Social Hour
Tuesday
December 13
8:30–10:00 a.m.
O 4020.0 Reaching Out Of The Box: The Collaboration of Environmental Health Programs With Communities
O Building Environmental Capacity: From Automotive Repair Shops to Vector Control
O 4022.0 Manipulating Evidence: Safeguarding the Integrity of Science
O Evidence of the Environments Relationship to Health
O The Social Environment of Older Adults
O Nail Salon Workers: Hazards and Controls
12:30–1:30 p.m.
P 4086.0 WHEN Environmental Health Occurs Poster Session
P Communities Working Together for Asthma Prevention and Improved Health Awareness
12:30–2:00 p.m.
O 4119.0 Built Environment Institute I: Improving Health by Fixing Our Everyday World - Built Environment Approaches to Preventing the Leading Causes of Death
O Defending Public Health: The Real Science of Vinyl
O Nutrition and Food Safety Beyond Bacteria: Toxicants in the Food Chain
O Strategies for Integrating Environmental Health Into Nursing Education and Public Health Nursing
2:30–3:30 p.m.
The Synergism of Environment and Health
2:30–4:00 p.m.
RT 4215.0 Built Environment Institute Roundtable: Physical and Social Environment's Impact on Health
O Community Strategies To Address Environmental Health
O 4217.0 Effectiveness of Environmental Health Policy?
O Exposure Assessment And Compromised Air Quality
O Communities Addressing Asthma: Working to Improve the Environment and Patient Care
O Linking Occupational and Environmental Health Policy: A Public Health Framework
4:30-5:30 p.m.
P 4261.0 Studies in Environmental Health: New And Old Threats & Emerging Methods Using GIS
4:30–6:00 p.m.
O 4306.0 Built Environment Institute II: Assessing The Urban Built Environment To Promote Physical Activity & Health
O Environmental Justice: Recognizing The Problem To Forge A Solution
O On the Ground Experience
O Public Health Impact of International Trade Treaties
6:30–8:00 p.m.
B 422.0 Environment Section Business Meeting IV
Wednesday
December 14
8:30–9:30 a.m.
P 5004.0 Built Environment Institute Poster Session
P 5005.0 Evaluating Effectiveness of Environmental Health Policies and Programs
P 5006.0 How Environment Can Affect Health: A Selection of Health Outcomes
8:30–10:00 a.m.
O 5040.0 Cumulative Impacts and Risk in Environmental Justice Communities in the South
O 5041.0 Environmental Health Preparedness and Emergency Response
12:30-2:00 p.m.
O 5097.0 Built Environment Institute III: Building partnerships in land use and community design decision making
O 5098.0 What and Who's Evidence Makes for Sound Policy?
O 5099.0 Frameworks for Future Consideration
O 5100.0 Environmental and Health Concerns In Risk Communication
O 5128.0 Pesticide Surveillance
2:30–4:00 p.m.
O 5154.0 Translating Research Into Action
O 5155.0 Children: The First To Bear The Brunt Of Environmental Contamination
O 5149.0 Building Evidence for a Systems Approach to Improve Environments for Healthy Eating and Physical Activity
O 5181.0 Orchard Worker Surveillance
O 5186.0 Health Communication and Bioterrorism
[EDITOR NOTE: Aditi Vaidya will be our Sr. Program Planner for 2006, joined by our new Junior Program Planner, August Martin. Thanks, Robyn, for your efforts 2004-05!]