APHA 135^th Annual Meeting

Environment Section Scientific Sessions and Events

Nov. 4 - 7, 2007, Washington D.C.

Sunday, Nov. 4, 2007

8:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m.

·         157.0 Environment Section Meeting for Members I

10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

·         186.0 Environment Section Meeting for Members II

2:30 p.m.

·         Environment Section Tour showcasing “green” housing solutions in Washington, D.C.

Monday, Nov. 5, 2007

6:30 a.m.-8:00 a.m.

·          292.0 Environment Section Meeting for Members III

8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.

·          3024.0 Strategies to Build Community Capacity to Engage in the Environmental Health Research Process (Oral)

·          3024.1 Using Science to Inform Air Pollution Policy (Oral)

·          3030.0 Community Innovations for Sustainable Food Systems (jointly-organized by the Food and Nutrition & Environment Sections) (Oral)

10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

• 3115.0 Global Climate Change and the Public Health Community: Mobilizing for Precautionary Action (Oral)
• 3116.0 Leadership in Action: Results from the National Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute (Oral)
• 3122.0 Community Based Approaches to Address Disparities in Food and Activity Environments (jointly-organized by the Food and Nutrition & Environment Sections) (Oral)

12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m.

·        3212.0 Environment Section Homer Calver Award Luncheon (Social)

·        3219.0 Community Based Approaches to Address Disparities in Food and Activity Environments (jointly-organized by the Food and Nutrition & Environment Sections) part 2 (Oral)

2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.

• 3264.0 Environment Section Poster Session I -- Student Posters (Poster)
• 3265.0 Environment Section Poster Session II -- Student Posters (Poster)
• 3266.0 Environment Section Poster Session III (Poster)

2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

• 3314.0 Health Impact Assessment and U.S. Environmental Policy: Novel Strategies for Addressing Public Health Within the U.S. Environmental Regulatory System (Oral)
• 3315.0 Twenty Years After Toxic Wastes and Race: Its Legacy for Environmental Health (Panel Discussion)

4:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.

• 3405.0 New Support for Community-Based Environmental Health Initiatives through Improved Collaboration among Federal Agencies, States, and Health Organizations (Oral)
• 3406.0 Built Environment I: Health in the Greenhouse: Global Climate Change and the Built Environment (Oral)
• 3407.0 The Use of Biomarkers to Assess Environmental Health Risk (Oral)

6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m.

• 332.0 Environment Section Social Hour

8:30 p.m.-10:00 p.m.

• 3447.0 Occupational Health Disparities Institute: Environmental Justice for Immigrant Workers: Research Methods to Promote Public Health (Oral) (endorsed by Environment Section)

Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2007

8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.

• 4020.0 Bugs, Drugs, and Flu: Human Health Impacts of Intensive Animal Agriculture (jointly organized by the Environment and Food & Nutrition Sections) (Oral)
• 4021.0 Built Environment II: Housing and Health: Patterns of Residential Health and Safety Hazards and Successful Intervention Strategies in Urban and Rural Communities (Oral)
• 4022.0 Using the National Environmental Public Health Performance Standards to Improve Agency Capacity (Oral)
• 4023.0 Environmental Epidemiology (Oral) (endorsed by Environment Section)

10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

• 4077.0 Climate Change: A Challenge to Public Health (Oral) (an APHA Special Session)

12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m.

• 4123.0 Environmental Public Health Tracking: Information to Guide Practice and Policy (Oral)
• 4124.0 Children's Environmental Health: Toward Sustainable Understanding, Interventions, and Policies Worldwide (Oral)
• 4125.0 Meeting the Environmental Health Needs of Native American and Alaska Native Communities (Oral)
• 4125.1 The Common Ground of Food, Nutrition, and Ecological Health (jointly organized by the Environment and Food & Nutrition Sections) (Oral)

2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

• 4211.0 Built Environment III: Community Design, Physical Activity and Quality of Life (Oral)
• 4212.0 Consequences of Global Change on Human Health (Oral)
• 4213.0 Intensive Animal Agriculture, Environmental Injustice, and Public Health (Oral)
• 4214.0 Increasing Environmental Health Literacy of the Public, Policymakers, and Health Professionals (Oral)

4:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.

• 4301.0 Environmental Justice: Partnerships, Communication and Public Health (Oral)
• 4302.0 Making Housing Healthy for Children Through Medical-Legal Partnerships and Financing Strategies (Oral)
• 4303.0 Sustainable Seafood: Optimizing Health and the Environment (jointly organized by the Environment and Food & Nutrition Sections) (Oral)

6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m.

• Social hour featuring sustainable food issues and free hors d'oeuvres made with healthy, locally produced ingredients.  Jointly organized by the Environment and Food & Nutrition Sections. Clyde's of Gallery Place, 707 7th Street NW, Washington, D.C.
  • RSVP kstillerman@ucsusa.org.

Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007

8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m.

• 5006.0 Environment Section Poster Session IV (Poster)
• 5007.0 Environment Section Poster Session V (Poster)
• 5008.0 Environment Section Poster Session VI (Poster)

8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.

• 5041.0 Contaminants in Freshwater Fish: Toxicity, Sources and Risk Communication (Oral)
• 5043.0 Environmental Epidemiology Late Breaker Session (Oral) (endorsed by Environment Section)

10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

• 5090.0 Farm & Food Policy: Challenges in the 21st Century (Oral) (an APHA Special Session)

12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m.

• 5105.0 Clearing the Air to Reduce Asthma Risks at School (Oral)
• 5106.0 The Role of Environment in Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases (Oral)
• 5107.0 Uranium, Navajo, Policy and Health (Oral)

2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

• 5161.0 Emerging Environmental Health Challenges (Oral)
• 5162.0 Environmental Risk Reduction in the Home and Childcare Setting (Oral)