Environment

Environment Section Call for Abstracts
APHA Annual Meeting - San Francisco, California
November 15-19, 2003
"Behavior, Lifestyle and Social Determinants of Health"
Abstracts Due February 14, 2003

The Section seeks abstracts related to the 2003 Annual Meeting theme “Behavior, Lifestyle and Social Determinants of Health” that highlight the relationship between the environment, the public and public health. Abstracts related to challenges associated with the research and practice of environmental health is also encouraged.

While abstracts on any environmental health practice and policy issue are welcome, the Section has particular interest related to:

Built Environment Institute I - Health by Design: A theoretical perspective
Built Environment Institute II - Diagnosis and Treatment: Measuring and modeling the impact of the built environment on the public’s health
Built Environment Institute III - Making it Possible at the Community Level – Identifying successes and challenges toward healthy community design and sustainable growth from three perspectives – Policymaker, Developer, Architect/Planner
Built Environment Institute Interactive Roundtable
Children's Environmental Health & Vulnerable Populations Poster Session
Children's Environmental Health & Vulnerable Populations Poster Session - Childhood Lead Poisoning
Children's Environmental Health & Vulnerable Populations: Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention: Identifying Exposure Sources and Developing Risk Reduction Interventions
Children's Environmental Health & Vulnerable Populations: Disproportionately Affected Communities
Children's Environmental Health - Healthy School Environments: From Policy to Action
Children's Environmental Health: Improving the Quality of Asthma Care - Stressing Environmental Management of Asthma
Collaborative efforts to reduce exposure to Hazardous Materials
Effects of Social Factors on Environmental Health
Environment Section Business Meeting I
Environment Section Business Meeting II
Environment Section Business Meeting III
Environment Section Business Meeting IV - Program Planning
Environment Section Social Hour
Environment Section Student Award Poster Session
Environmental Health & Policy - Building the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network Through Effective Partnerships
Environmental Health & Policy - Health Care Without Harm: Environmental health considerations drive change in California's health care industry
Environmental Health and Policy Institute: Precautionary Principle in Action -- Strategies That Protect Public Health
Environmental Health and Policy Institute: The Politics of Science
Environmental Health Nursing Practice: Tools for Assessment, Intervention and Advocacy
Environmental Health Policy Strategies Poster Session
Environmental Public Health Infrastructure: Challenges and Opportunities
Environmental Toxics - Getting to the source: Reducing environmental health risks through pollution prevention- local, state, national and international initiatives
Exploring the Association Between Environmental Toxics and Health
Homer N. Calver Lecture
Indoor Air Quality in the Home and Workplace
Innovative Topics - Fish, Fats and Toxic Pollutants, Part I: Benefits and Risks of Eating Contaminated Fish
Innovative Topics -- Developing Environmental health Indicators and Outcome measures
Innovative Topics in Environmental Health
Innovative Topics: Biomonitoring and Toxicogenomics, finding the link between genes, the environment, and disease
Innovative Topics: Fish, Fats and Toxic Pollutants, Part II: Communicating Risks and Preventing Exposures
Issues in Water Safety and Quality
Mold Prevention
Public Health Collaborations in Lead Poisoning Prevention
Public Health Collaborations Poster Session
Public Health Collaborations: PACE EH: Advancing environmental justice using a community-based environmental health assessment model
Reducing Children's environmental exposure to lead and other contaminates
Social Determinants of Health: How local environments affect biological, psychological, and social health
Social Determinants of Health: Sound Science for Sale? Industry Influence over Research, Risk Assessment and Regulation of Tobacco, Food and Toxic Chemicals
Spotlight on Local Environmental Health Issues
Terrorism - Planning for Potential Contamination Threats

Although not exhaustive, this list is meant to stimulate ideas for abstract submission. Topics are not meant to be mutually exclusive. In fact, the Section encourages integrative approaches to Environmental Health, especially issues that involve and impact the public and public health.

Individual contributions are welcome for poster, round table and oral sessions. Proposals for full sessions are encouraged. Students of public health and other health related fields are especially encouraged to submit abstracts pertaining to their academic research. A student achievement award for outstanding student abstract will be presented. All abstracts will be peer-reviewed and ranked for quality, topic applicability, and relation to overall Section priorities. Every effort will be made to accommodate presentation preferences for accepted abstracts. Please note that in certain cases abstracts submitted as oral presentations may be accepted as posters, or abstracts submitted as posters may be accepted as oral presentations.

All abstracts or full session proposals must be submitted electronically via APHA’s Web site, http://www.apha.org. For those individuals who do not have Internet access, abstracts can be submitted by USPS mail (not e-mail or facsimile unless approved by program planning). Individual abstracts must adhere to the general APHA abstract guidelines to be accepted. Abstracts over 250 words will not be accepted.

Special Instructions for Submitting Full Session Proposals (vs. Individual Abstracts):
Full sessions on a specific topic or issue are strongly encouraged. Full session proposals should be submitted along with each individual presentation abstract. This complete package gives the reviewers more information from which to judge the overall merits of the proposal. To have a session proposal considered for the Environment section program, please complete the following steps:

Please send an overall session description to Mr. Neal Rosenblatt, Sr. Program Planner both by USPS mail and electronically via email attachment (see contact information below), which includes a rationale for the session, the proposed abstract titles, and author(s);
Through the APHA web-based submission process, submit a separate abstract for each individual paper and include these abstracts along with your full session submission packet. Under comment line, please note that the individual abstract is part of SESSION X;

For the individual abstracts, please indicate whether or not you would like to have the individual abstracts considered for presentation in other sessions, if your proposed session is not accepted;

All hard copy full session submissions should be mailed to: Mr. Neal Rosenblatt, Cabinet for Health Services, Department for Public Health, Lead Poisoning Prevention Program, 275 East Main Street, HS2GW-A, Frankfort, KY 40621. Individual questions should be submitted to Mr. Rosenblatt or Ms. Lee at the telephone numbers or e-mail addresses listed below.

If you have any questions, please contact Mr. Neal Rosenblatt or Ms. Robin Lee before the submission deadline. Mr. Rosenblatt can be contacted at (502) 564-2154 ext. 3771 or by e-mail at neal.rosenblatt@mail.state.ky.us and Ms. Lee can be contacted at (770) 488-4180 or rpl5@cdc.gov.

Instructions for Submitting Abstracts by Mail (only for those who do not have Internet access): If you do not have access to the Internet, you can submit hard copies of the materials to Mr. Rosenblatt directly. All individual abstracts must adhere to the general APHA abstract guidelines. Forms can be obtained by e-mailing APHA at comments@apha.org.

All of the following must be submitted: (1) An original camera ready copy, using the form provided by APHA; (2) four "blind" copies of the abstract, omitting the author's name and institution; (3) a self-addressed, stamped post card, with the title of the abstract printed on the back, which will be used to acknowledge receipt of your abstract; (4) a self-addressed, stamped envelope, which will be used to notify you of your acceptance status; (5) four sets of completed APHA author/co-author identification forms; (6) a completed financial disclosure form; and (7) a cover letter that includes the name of the author to whom correspondence should be sent, that author's address, telephone number, facsimile number and e-mail address.

All contributed abstracts must be received by February 7, 2003.

Contact Information:

Program Planner Contact Information:
Neal L. Rosenblatt, MS,MS-C
Health Program Administrator/Epidemiologist
Cabinet for Health Services/Department for Public Health/Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
275 East Main St., HS2GW-A
Frankfort, KY 40621
Phone: (502) 564-2154 ext. 3771
Fax: (502) 564-8389
neal.rosenblatt@mail.state.ky.us

and
Robin Lee, MPH
EEHS\ Environmental Health Services
National Center for Environmental Health - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
4770 Buford HWY NE
MS F-28, Office 1137
Atlanta, GA 30341-3717
Phone: (770) 488-4180
Fax: (770) 488-7310
RPL5@cdc.gov

and
Polly Hoppin, ScD
Environmental Health Program
Tellus Institute
11 Arlington St.
Boston, MA 02116
Phone: 617-266-5400
Fax: 617-266-8303
phoppin@tellus.org

and
Russell P. Lopez, MCRP, DSC
Environmental Health
Boston University School of Public Health
Talbot Building 2E
715 Albany Street
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: 617 414-1439
Fax: 617 638-4857
rptlopez@bu.edu

and
Susan West Marmagas, MPH
Environment and Health Programs
Physicians for Social Responsibility
1875 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC 20009
Phone: 202.6667.4260
swest@psr.org