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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.

Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009

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

Monday, Nov. 9, 2009

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

Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009

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

Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009

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