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Environment

NOTE: Sessions listed in italics have been organized by another section, SPIG, or caucus but are endorsed by Environment.


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Monday, November 05, 2007

8:30 AM-10:00 AM Mon
   3024.0Strategies to Build Community Capacity to Engage in the Environmental Health Research Process (Oral)
   3024.1Using Science to Inform Air Pollution Policy (Oral)
   3030.0Community Innovations for Sustainable Food Systems (jointly-organized by the Food and Nutrition & Environment Sections) (Oral)
   3056.0Occupational Health Disparities Institute: Environmental Justice for Immigrant Workers: Research Methods to Promote Public Health (Oral)
10:30 AM-12:00 PM Mon
   3115.0Global Climate Change and the Public Health Community: Mobilizing for Precautionary Action (Oral)
   3116.0Leadership in Action: Results from the National Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute (Oral)
   3122.0Community-based Approaches to Address Disparities in Food and Activity Environments (jointly-organized by the Food and Nutrition & Environment Sections) (Oral)
12:30 PM-2:00 PM Mon
   3212.0Environment Section Homer Calver Award Luncheon and Lecture by Peggy Shepard (Social)
   3219.0Community-based Approaches to Address Disparities in Food and Activity Environments (jointly-organized by the Food and Nutrition & Environment Sections) part 2 (Oral)
2:30 PM-3:30 PM Mon
   3264.0Environment Section Poster Session I -- Student Posters (Poster)
   3265.0Environment Section Poster Session II -- Student Posters (Poster)
   3266.0Environment Section Poster Session III (Poster)
2:30 PM-4:00 PM Mon
   3314.0Health Impact Assessment and U.S. Environmental Policy: Novel Strategies for Addressing Public Health Within the U.S. Environmental Regulatory System (Oral)
   3315.0Twenty Years After Toxic Wastes and Race: Its Legacy for Environmental Health (Panel Discussion)
4:30 PM-6:00 PM Mon
   3405.0New Support for Community-Based Environmental Health Initiatives through Improved Collaboration among Federal Agencies, States, and Health Organizations (Oral)
   3406.0Built Environment I: Health in the Greenhouse: Global Climate Change and the Built Environment (Oral)
   3407.0The Use of Biomarkers to Assess Environmental Health Risk (Oral)

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

8:30 AM-10:00 AM Tue
   4020.0Bugs, Drugs, and Flu: Human Health Impacts of Intensive Animal Agriculture (jointly organized by the Environment and Food & Nutrition Sections) (Oral)
   4021.0Built Environment II: Housing and Health: Patterns of Residential Health and Safety Hazards and Successful Intervention Strategies in Urban and Rural Communities (Oral)
   4022.0Using the National Environmental Public Health Performance Standards to Improve Agency Capacity (Oral)
   4023.0Environmental Epidemiology (Oral)
12:30 PM-2:00 PM Tue
   4123.0Environmental Public Health Tracking: Information to Guide Practice and Policy (Oral)
   4124.0Children's Environmental Health: Toward Sustainable Understanding, Interventions, and Policies Worldwide (Oral)
   4125.0Meeting the Environmental Health Needs of Native American and Alaska Native Communities (Oral)
   4125.1The Common Ground of Food, Nutrition, and Ecological Health (jointly organized by the Environment and Food & Nutrition Sections) (Oral)
2:30 PM-4:00 PM Tue
   4201.0Public Health and Aging: Promoting Healthy Communities for Healthy Aging (Oral)
   4211.0Built Environment III: Community Design, Physical Activity and Quality of Life (Oral)
   4212.0Consequences of Global Change on Human Health (Oral)
   4213.0Intensive Animal Agriculture, Environmental Injustice, and Public Health (Oral)
   4214.0Increasing Environmental Health Literacy of the Public, Policymakers, and Health Professionals (Oral)
4:30 PM-6:00 PM Tue
   4301.0Environmental Justice: Partnerships, Communication and Public Health (Oral)
   4302.0Making Housing Healthy for Children Through Medical-Legal Partnerships and Financing Strategies (Oral)
   4303.0Sustainable Seafood: Optimizing Health and the Environment (jointly organized by the Environment and Food & Nutrition Sections) (Oral)

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

8:30 AM-9:30 AM Wed
   5006.0Environment Section Poster Session IV (Poster)
   5007.0Environment Section Poster Session V (Poster)
   5008.0Environment Section Poster Session VI (Poster)
8:30 AM-10:00 AM Wed
   5041.0Contaminants in Freshwater Fish: Toxicity, Sources and Risk Communication (Oral)
   5043.0Environmental Epidemiology Late Breaker Session (Oral)
12:30 PM-2:00 PM Wed
   5105.0Clearing the Air to Reduce Asthma Risks at School (Oral)
   5106.0The Role of Environment in Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases (Oral)
   5107.0Uranium, Navajo, Policy and Health (Oral)
2:30 PM-4:00 PM Wed
   5161.0Emerging Environmental Health Challenges (Oral)
   5162.0Environmental Risk Reduction in the Home and Childcare Setting (Oral)

The 135th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 3-7, 2007) of APHA