Thursday, February 1, 2007

8 am

Registration & Continental Breakfast

9 am

Keynote Address: Environment and Health: An Intimate Connection

• Howard Frumkin, Director, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  Streaming Video --- Transcript --- PowerPoint Presentation

10 am

Plenary Roundtable – Strong Connections

Case examples showing the connections among environmental quality, wildlife health and human health.

• Avian Flu – Steven Salzberg, Ph.D., Horvitz Professor of Computer Science and Director, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park
• Arsenic – Joe Graziano, Associate Dean, Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University
• Cholera – Rita Colwell, Honorary Chairman, Canon U.S. Life Sciences and Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University
• Climate change– Jonathan Patz, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies and Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Moderator: Rita Colwell, Honorary Chairman, Canon U.S. Life Sciences and Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University 

11 am

Plenary Roundtable – Systems Thinking

Facilitated discussion with moderator about root causes, threats, drivers for unhealthy outcomes, stressors and topical issues

• Milt Friend, Director Emeritus, USGS National Wildlife Health Center
• Audrey Chapman, Healey Memorial Chair in the Medical Humanities and Bioethics, University of Connecticut Health Center
• Larry Murillo, One Sky Center, Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University
• Francesca T. Grifo , Senior Scientist and Director, Scientific Integrity Program

Moderator: Bernard Goldstein, Dean Emeritus, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh

12:15 pm

Lunch

Book Signing: URBAN SPRAWL AND PUBLIC HEALTH Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities, Howard Frumkin

Film: The Beloved Community , Pamela Calvert

1:30–
5 pm

Breakout Sessions (concurrent)  - There will be specific case studies for each theme

• Decisionmaking in the Real World 
• Guiding and Fostering Multi-disciplinary Research 
• Expanding Understanding: Information, Education and Communication 

5:30 pm

NCSE Lifetime Achievement Award

 Theo Colborn  , President, The Endocrine Disruption Exchange    Transcript

 Herbert Needleman, Professor of Child Psychiatry and Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

6 pm

7th John H. Chafee Memorial Lecture on Science and the Environment
Larry Brilliant, Executive Director, Google.org

Streaming Video -- Report

7 pm       

Reception

Friday, February 2, 2007

8 am

Continental Breakfast

9 am

Plenary Lecture: The Environment and Health: Developing Solutions

• Dr. Mirta Roses Periago, Director, Pan American Health Organization, Regional Director, Regional Office for the Americas, World Health Organization.  Refer to the following link for a recent publication by WHO: "Preventing Disease through Healthy Environments: Toward and Estimate of the Environmental Burden of Disease." 
  
  Streaming Video 
  Press Release

10 am

Symposia – 5 Concurrent Sessions

• Decisionmaking in the Real World
• Guiding Research
• Expanding Understanding
• Avian Flu 
• New Orleans and Katrina: Environment and Health Causes and Consequences
  
  PowerPoint Presentations

12:00 pm

Buffet Lunch (with youth mentoring tables)

Book Signing: LIVES PER GALLON The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction, Terry Tamminen  

1:30 pm

Plenary Roundtable – One World, One Health, One Science, One Education

Moderator: Richard Joseph Jackson, MD MPH, Adjunct Professor, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health

Discussants:

• Val Beasley, Professor of Veterinary, Wildlife, and Ecological Toxicology, Department of Veterinary Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Christopher Portier, Director, Office of Risk Assessment Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH
• John Warner, Director, Center for Green Chemistry, and Professor, Plastics Engineering, University of Massachusetts-Lowell
• Lloyd Pinkham, Middle School Teacher, Union Gap, Washington and member of Native American Academy

2:45 pm

Plenary Roundtable – Healthy People, Healthy Planet: From Evidence to Action

Moderator: Peter Dykstra, Executive Producer, CNN 

Discussants:

• Mary Nichols , Director, University of California- Los Angeles Institute for the Environment
• Georges Benjamin, Executive Director, American Public Health Association
• Arthur Gibson, Vice-President, Environment, Health, and Safety, Baxter Healthcare Corporation
• Terry Tamminen, Special Advisor for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, author of “Lives Per Gallon: The True Costs of Our Oil Addiction”

4 pm

Adjourn