2009 APHA Environment Section Program
Water and Public Health: The 21st Century Challenge
Pennsylvania Convention Center
Philadelphia
Program Chairs: Kacee Deener, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Yolanda Sanchez, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Please join the Environment Section at the 2009 APHA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. This year’s theme, “Water and Public Health: The 21st Century Challenge,” provides a wonderful opportunity for the Environment Section to highlight the latest in environmental public health research and programs through 34 oral scientific sessions and six poster sessions. Additionally, the Environment Section has cosponsored and endorsed numerous scientific sessions that were organized by other APHA Sections. You can access the full program – including cosponsored and endorsed sessions – online at http://apha.confex.com/apha/137am/webprogram/ENV.html.
A list of sessions organized by the Environment Section is provided below. All activities organized by the Environment Section will take place at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Specific room locations will be announced at a later date.
8:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m.
201.0 Environment Section Meeting for Members I
10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
217.0 Environment Section Meeting for Members II
6:30 a.m.-8:00 a.m.
301.0 Environment Section Meeting for Members III
8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
3027.0 Drinking Water: Source-to-Tap Public Health Aspects
10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
3086.0 Environment Section Student Achievement Award Poster Session
3085.0 Environmental Health Poster Session I: Exposure among Vulnerable Populations
3084.0 Environmental Health Poster Session II: General Topics in Environmental Health
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
3117.0 VOC-Contaminated Drinking Water at Camp LeJeune: Historical Reconstruction of Contaminant Levels and Epi Studies
3118.0 Strategies to Improve Residential Indoor Environmental Quality in New and Existing Housing
3119.0 MRSA and Antibiotic Use in Animal Agriculture: An Emerging Health Threat Down on the Farm – JOINTLY SPONSORED BY ENVIRONMENT AND FOOD/NUTRITION
3108.0 Careers in Public Health: Occupational Health and Safety, Environment, Genomics and Injury Control and Emergency Health Services
12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
3216.0 Environment Section Calver Award Lecture – Dr. Howard Frumpkin
2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
3315.0 Current Issues in Children’s Environmental Health
3316.0 Oceans and Human Health: Communicating Public Health Concerns to Communities at Risk
3317.0 Detection, Surveillance and Monitoring: Tools to Understand Water and Health
4:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
3409.0 Lead in Drinking Water: Children’s Health and Policy
3410.0 Assessing the Impact of the Built Environment on Health Outcomes
3411.0 Partnerships for Environmental Public Health: Promoting Research to Action
3412.0 Re-establishing the Primacy of Primary Prevention in the Control of Waterborne and Zoonotic Disease: Selected Examples
6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
335.0 Environment Section Awards and Social Event
8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
4020.0 Climate Change and Public Health
4021.0 The School Environment and Children’s Health
4022.0 Water and Health: An Environmental Justice Perspective
4022.1 Emerging Environmental Health Challenges: Pharmaceuticals in Water
12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
4189.0 Collaborative Efforts in Addressing Issues Regarding Pharmaceuticals in Water
4190.0 Climate Change, Water and Public Health
4191.0 Benefits and Risks from the Sea: Balancing Nutritional Benefits with Toxicological Risks: Where are we now and where do we need to go?
2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
4275.0 Using Community Owned and Managed Research (COMR) and Collaborative Problem-solving Approaches to Address Environmental Justice
4276.0 Your Oceans and Your Health: Public Health Surveillance, Prediction, Prevention and Preparedness
4277.0 Water, Health and Communities
4278.0 Politics, Policy and Public Health
4:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
4361.0 Public, Private and Bottled: Public Health and Drinking Water
4362.0 Ecosystems and Human Health
4363.0 Decision-making and Politics in Community Water Supply
4366.0 Getting from Here to There: Planning and Building Healthier, More Sustainable Food and Water Systems – JOINTLY ORGANIZED BY FOOD/NUTRITION AND ENVIRONMENT
8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m.
5004.0 Environmental Health Poster Session III: Health and Water
5005.0 Environmental Health Poster Session IV: Food and the Environment
5006.0 Environmental Health Poster Session V: Emerging Environmental Challenges
8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
5039.0 The Importance of Clean Water and Sanitation to Health: An International Perspective
5040.0 General Topics in Environmental Justice
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
5100.0 Waterborne Diseases: Seasonality and Environmental Associations
5101.0 Infectious Disease and Water
5102.0 The Health of the Chesapeake Bay: Microcosm of Global Watershed Stresses
12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
5150.0 Air Quality and Environmental Health
5151.0 Emerging Contaminants and Environmental Health
5152.0 Improving Capacity and Preparing for Accreditation using the National Environmental Public Health Performance Standards