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Title: Environment Section Program

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Section/SPIG: Occupational Health and Safety

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This year’s Environment Section APHA program reflects a range of topics including the built environment and health, children’s environmental health and vulnerable populations, innovative topics in environmental health, public health collaborations and infrastructure, public health nursing in environmental health, public health and policy, social determinants of health, spotlight on regional environmental health issues indigenous to the San Francisco metropolitan area, terrorism, and toxics. More than 60 scientific and poster sessions will be presented, including a number of co-sponsored sessions partnering with Community Health, Community Health Planning & Policy Development, Epidemiology, Food & Nutrition, Gerontological Health, Occupational Health & Safety, Maternal & Child Health, Mental Health, Public Health Nursing, Public Health Student Caucus and Vietnam Caucus. Our panelists represent a wide range of organizations and government agencies from both the United States and abroad.

Don’t forget to include the Homer N. Calver lecture/luncheon in your APHA Personal Scheduler for Monday, Nov. 17 at 12:30 p.m. The winner of the Calver award will be announced shortly. Other events include the launching of the Built Environment Institute – a series of sessions identifying approaches for building sustainable environments that actively improve human health; a Built Environment & Health Field Trip on Sunday, Nov. 16 at 2:00 – 5:30 p.m.; a Student Achievement Award poster session on Monday, November 17 at 8:30 A.M.; and the Environment Section Social Hour on Monday, Nov. 17 at 6:30 p.m.

All Environment Section scientific, roundtable and poster sessions will be presented in the Moscone Convention Center. And our online program is available at: <http://apha.confex.com/apha/131am/techprogram/program_312.htm>.