As APHA’s 138th Annual Meeting & Exposition approaches (Nov. 6-10 in Denver), the Environment Section Program Planning Committee has been hard at work crafting a strong program for you. Thank you again to all our volunteer abstract reviewers and session organizers.
This year’s selection of oral and poster sessions will highlight the meeting theme, “Social Justice: A Public Health Imperative,” with explorations of theory, practice and public policy across the spectrum of environmental health issues. In addition to the regular Environment Section program, the annual Calver Lecture and luncheon, and opportunities to network with your peers in environmental health, this year we will also offer Annual Meeting participants a special “track” of oral and poster sessions organized jointly with Occupational Health, International Health, and other sections to delve more deeply into issues of social, environmental and occupational justice.
The full schedule of Environment Section events in Denver is now online at http://apha.confex.com/apha/138am/webprogram/ENV.html. Here’s a preview of what’s in store for you from the scientific program:
ENVIRONMENT SECTION ORAL SESSIONS
3024.0: Aquaculture and public health: Implications for food systems and the environment
3110.0: The role of popular arts & education methodologies in democratizing and enhancing community-based participatory research for environmental and occupational justice
3111.0: Addressing cumulative impacts in communities: The science, practice, and policy of cumulative risk assessment
3305.0: Body burden of industrial chemicals
3306.0: Greenwashing vs. green products: Science, state policy, and worker impacts
3394.0: Rebuilding indigenous food systems
3395.0: Topics in children's environmental health
3396.0: Climate change and public health: Research, communication, and mitigation activities at the international, federal, local, and personal levels
4018.0: Tools for capacity building and community driven research in environmental justice communities: using EPA models to address environmental health concerns
4019.0: Climate change: Drylands, mineral dust, and human welfare
4020.0: Summer in the city: Addressing health impacts and disparities posed by urban heat events
4089.0: Protecting vulnerable communities from climate change
4176.0: Partnering with communities to address environmental and occupational justice concerns
4177.0: Social justice, public health, and water: An international perspective
4178.0: Health impact assessment: A decision making tool to enhance social justice
4179.0: Growing healthier communities: Multi-level, multi-sector 'recipes' for food systems change
4264.0: Partners in research: Strengthening and evaluating models for equitable participation in environmental public health research and action
4265.0: Global trade, local impacts, and environmental justice challenges
4266.0: National Children's Study: How environment affects child health
4356.0: Meeting farm, food and health goals: Policy approaches to just and healthy food systems
4357.0: Protecting our waters: Analysis of water policy
4358.0: Improving the performance and equity of the nation's Environmental Health Services: Using the environmental public health performance standards and the accreditation process to deliver environmental excellence
5038.0: Getting from here to there: Traffic, transportation policies, and public health
5039.0: Participatory research, decision making, and action to reach environmental justice
5102.0: Indicators of climate variability and community resilience
5103.0: Planning for a healthy and prosperous future: Public health, demographic, resource, and urban form connections
5149.0: Fenceline communities: Fighting for environmental justice
5150.0: Looking for the social justice hooks: Subsistence fishing and fish advisories
5151.0: Radon: Awareness and health impacts
ENVIRONMENT SECTION POSTER SESSIONS
3083.0: Healthy housing and green buildings
3084.0: Air quality and public health in the built environment
3085.0: Student Achievement Poster Session for the Environment Section
5004.0: General topics in environmental health
5005.0: Environmental justice and health disparities
5006.0: Environmental contaminants and public health
SPECIAL INTER-SECTIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL-OCCUPATIONAL JUSTICE TRACK
ORAL:
3055.0: Blue / Green #1: Producing green and working safe
3139.0: Blue / Green #2: Making green jobs safe jobs
4090.0: Improving environmental health and occupational safety and health through training programs, capacity building, partnerships, and public health education
4114.0: Social justice and international occupational health
4267.0: Food systems: Seeking environmental, occupational, and social justice from farm to fork
POSTER:
4319.0: Social justice and public health: Environmental, occupational, and international perspectives