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3005.1: Monday, November 05, 2007: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM | ||||
Oral | ||||
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| During this session six specialists in various aspects of public health will present updates on important developments in infectious and chronic disease, international health, children's health insurance, and public health responses to crises, including Hurricane Katrina, the situation in Darfur, and the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: By the end of this session, attendees will be able to describe these recent developments in important public health matters and how public health workers are appropriately responding to them. | ||||
| Presider(s): | Carol Easley Allen, PhD, RN Barry S. Levy, MD, MPH | |||
| 8:30 AM |  | Extensively drug resistant Tuberculosis: An update Kenneth G. Castro, MD | ||
| 8:45 AM | | Update on studies of recovery workers at the World Trade Center site Robin Herbert, MD | ||
| 9:00 AM | | New developments in the crisis in Darfur Susannah Sirkin | ||
| 9:15 AM | | Update on the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) E. Richard Brown, PhD | ||
| 9:30 AM | | Clinical depression: Update on a leading public health problem | ||
| 9:45 AM | | Update on public health problems associated with Hurricane Katrina Kevin U. Stephens, MD, JD | ||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | ||||
| Organized by: | APHA | |||
The 135th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 3-7, 2007) of APHA