5004.0 *Poster Session*: Environmental justice: The additive risk of a poor environment on health disparities

Wednesday, October 31, 2012: 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Poster
Session Objectives: I am a Senior Specialist in Environmental Health at the Association of Public Health Laboratories. My primary focus is on lab-based approaches to environmental public health research to improve the health of communities.
Organizer:
Surili Sutaria
Moderator:
Simone M. Charles, PhD

Board 1
Climate Change, Environmental Challenges and Vulnerable Communities: Assessing Legacies of the Past, Building Opportunities for the Future
Dennis P. Andrulis, PhD, MPH, Nadia J. Siddiqui, MPH and Maria Cooper, MA
Board 2
An aggregate analysis of kriged residential soil arsenic and lead concentrations and mother-child measures in low-income populations
C. Marjorie Aelion, PhD and Harley Davis, MSPH
Board 3
Meharry Public Health Exposome Project: Towards Eliminating Health Disparities
Paul Juarez, PhD and Wansoo Im, PhD
Board 4
Improving health in environmental justice communities by engaging communities and workers in enforcement of environmental laws, regulations and policies
Anna Hrybyk, MPH
Board 5
Diminishing the health burden caused by disproportionate exposure to air pollution through local community action to change policies and practices
Jazmin I. Zane, MSW, Peggy Toy, MA, Ashley Parks, MPH, Porsche Johnson, Ying-Ying Meng, Dr Ph, Janet Scully, MPH, Robert Vinetz, MD, Isela Gracian, Elisa Nicholas, MD, MSPH, Judeth Luong, MPH, Hector Ornelas Diaz, RN and Steven Wallace, PhD
Board 6
Associations of Density and Proximity of Fast Food Restaurants with Dietary Intake and Body Mass Index among an African American Cohort
Seann D. Regan, MA, Lorraine R. Reitzel, PhD, Nga Nguyen, MS, David W. Wetter, PhD, Ellen Cromley, PhD, Larkin L. Strong, PhD, MPH and Lorna H. McNeill, PhD, MPH
Board 7
Assessment of the Distribution of Toxic Release Inventory Facilities in Metropolitan Charleston: An Environmental Justice Review
Sacoby Wilson, MS, PhD, Herb Fraser-Rahim, Kristen Burwell, MPH, Hongmei Zhang, PhD, Edith M. Williams, PhD, MS, Dayna Campbell, MS, PhD(c) and Kasim Ortiz, PhD (c), MS, BA
Board 8
Spatial Distribution of Leaking Underground Storage Tanks in Charleston, South Carolina: An Environmental Justice Analysis
Sacoby Wilson, MS, PhD, Dayna Campbell, MS, PhD(c), Herb Fraser-Rahim, Hongmei Zhang, PhD, Edith M. Williams, PhD, MS, Kasim Ortiz, PhD (c), MS, BA, LaShanta Rice, MPH, PhD(c) and Winston Abara, MPH
Board 9
Valley Fever (Coccidioidomycosis) and health disparities in African Americans and Latinos in California
Vickie M. Mays, PhD, MSPH and Denise Johnson, JD

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