5021.0: Wednesday, November 19, 2003: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM | |||
Poster | |||
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| This Poster session provides an overview of collaborative efforts being fostered between environmental health and other disciplines. Presentations will demonstrate initiatives designed to improve the capacity of state and local health departments to perform the varied functions which comprise environmental health, and collaborations designed to increase the involvement of groups such as schools of public health, community based organizations and local stakeholder groups in environmental health initiatives. | |||
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to: 1)Identify ways in which to strengthen partnerships between schools of public health, environmental health departments and local communities 2) List several strategies for engaging stakeholders over time from diverse agencies on an issue of mutual concern 3) Discuss ways in which the state health department can effectively work and reach consensus with the state’s environmental agency, community-based organizations and environmental advocacy groups | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Kevin Delaney, MPH | |||
| Balancing challenges and practices associated with formative research, integrative audiences, and future research: Findings from the second National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals Ann C. Forsythe, PhD | |||
| Academic-Practitioner Partnerships in Action: Enhancing Maryland Environmental Public Health Capacity Thomas A. Burke, PhD, MPH, Beth A. Resnick, MPH | |||
| Enhancing the pediatric environmental health knowledge of health professionals:The role of the Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSU) Program Paula Wilborne-Davis, MPH, CHES, M. Nolana Kabwit, BS | |||
| Remedying disparities through partnerships: Bringing environmental justice activists and health professionals together Max Weintraub, MS | |||
| Housing Demolition and Air Pollution: Working with a local public housing environmental task force to minimize exposure Samuel Dorevitch, MD, MPH, Victoria Persky, MD, Peter Scheff, PhD, Serap Erdal, PhD | |||
| West Nile Virus outbreak: An assessment of personal risk behaviors Maria J. Chudoba, MD, MPH, Stephanie Smith, MD, MPH, Steve Seweryn, MPH, Thomas Varchmin, MS, LEHP, Alena Khromava, MD, MPH, Margaret McCusker, MD, MS | |||
| Predictors for restaurant inspection score: Preliminary results from a study on food safety knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors among restaurant workers in Los Angeles County R. E. Guevara, MPH, H Dela Cruz, REHS, HS, B Tamjid, REHS, HS | |||
| Well water as a possible transmission route for helicobacter pylori Jason Ravenscroft, MPH | |||
| Environmental health capacity building at schools of public health Hugh Mainzer, DVM, MS | |||
| Capacity building initiatives in environmental health Myfanwy G. Callahan, MS | |||
| Withdrawn -- Lessons Learned. Integrating Ethical Criteria into the Review of Environmental Health Research Projects Sharyle Patton, Sharyle Patton | |||
| Organized by: | Environment | ||