Title: 2005 APHA Annual Meeting: Environment Section Needs Volunteer Abstract Reviewers by Jan. 31, 2005

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Section/SPIG: Environment

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We hope everyone is still engaged and excited about the recent APHA Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., this past November. The theme of “Public Health and the Environment” fell right in line with the goals of the Environment Section, and we learned a great deal, made new discoveries, and traded ideas with our peers regarding how we can advance the field of public health. We hope to continue the success of the 2004 Annual Meeting as we begin planning this year’s upcoming meeting.

This is a reminder (re: e-mail sent around the second week of January) that the Environment Section, as in past years, needs volunteers willing to review abstracts submitted for the APHA 2005 Annual Meeting! We appreciate your responses by Jan. 31, 2005. When replying to Aditi, whose e-mail appears below, please indicate which of this year’s topic tracks you are most interested in reviewing abstracts for:

1) The 2005 Built Environment Institute (BEI III);
2) Environmental Public Health (EH) - How (for example, EH skills and tools, biological monitoring of exposures, health tracking, epidemiology, risk communication);
3) EH - Who (for example, EH infrastructure and workforce, EH nursing, children’s EH, health disparities, Environmental Justice, collaborations, youth involvement);
4) EH – When: Now! (for example, policy; scientific integrity; hot topics related to contaminants, air, water, food, land/land use;
5) EH – Where (for example, local Louisiana issues, border issues, home, school, work, community, international/global, war).

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

Thank you in advance for participating!

2005 Environment Section Program Planners,
Aditi Vaidya (aditi_v1@yahoo.com)
Robyn Gilden (rgilden@son.umaryland.edu)