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Session: Environmental Justice and Access to Healthy Foods: Developing Community-University Partnerships to Address the Built Environment
3108.0: Monday, November 06, 2006: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
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Environmental Justice and Access to Healthy Foods: Developing Community-University Partnerships to Address the Built Environment
Access to healthful and uncontaminated food should be a human right and recently researchers, policy makers, and the public have recognized how the built environment impacts residents' health in terms of access to food. The best approaches for addressing this public health problem are still being examined. Since 1993, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) has been a leading proponent for community-university partnerships to address environmental public health concerns. Through the environmental justice program, NIEHS has sought to bring together community residents, environmental health researchers and health care providers to examine myriad public health topics, including those related to the built environment. Through these partnerships, community residents have worked in concert with researchers to define, evaluate and develop solutions to environmental health issues facing their communities. In this session four environmental justice projects will be presented, highlighting the strategies each partnership has employed to address disparities in the built environment as it pertains to access to healthful and uncontaminated food. The projects are at differing stages of development and address different aspects of the built environment. Presenters will share public health and policy impacts they have made and the challenges they have faced in implementing these projects.
Learning Objectives: (1) Learn about the NIEHS Environmental Justice Program. (2) Learn about strategies used to address access to healthful and uncontaminated food. (3) Learn about the importance of community-university partnerships to address these issues.
Moderator(s):Laureen Burton
10:30 AMObesity and physical infrastructure in New York City neighborhoods
Barbara Berney, PhD, MPH, Jackson Sekhobo, PhD, MPA
10:40 AMStarting a food cooperative: Community response to a restricted food environment in East New York
Kimberly B. Morland, PhD, Laura Sanzel, Salima Jones-Daley, Jose Lopez, Douglas Reich, Kelli Scarr, Susan W. Filomena
10:50 AMBuilding food justice in Los Angeles through community-based participatory research  [ Recorded presentation ]
Robert Gottlieb, Andrea Misako Azuma, MS, Susan Gilliland
11:00 AMPartnership to reduce disparities in asthma and obesity in latino schools  [ Recorded presentation ]
Guillermo Gomez, MS, Idida Perez, Jovita Flores
11:10 AMFish consumption risk communication in ethnic communities  [ Recorded presentation ]
David H. Petering, PhD, John Dellinger, Mary Beth Driscoll, Tess Gallun, Rick Haverkate, Lo Neng Kiatoukaysy, Peter McAvoy, Stephen Percy, Alison Rostankowski
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Environment
Endorsed by:Community Health Workers SPIG; Community-Based Public Health Caucus; Maternal and Child Health; Public Health Nursing; Socialist Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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