3003.1 Latebreaking Developments in Public Health

Monday, October 27, 2008: 8:30 AM
Oral
In this session, papers will be presented on latebreaking development in public health of major interest to a wide audience of public health workers and students.
Session Objectives: At the end of the session, attendees will be able to describe several recent major developments in public health and what public health workers and their agencies and organizations have been doing to address these issues.
Moderators:
Carol Easley Allen, PhD, RN and Barry S. Levy, MD, MPH

8:30 AM
Public health workforce report
Linda Rosenstock, MD, MPH
     
8:45 AM
New developments concerning anthrax
Victor W. Sidel, MD, Hillel W. Cohen, MPH, DrPH, Robert Gould, MD and Barry S. Levy, MD, MPH
     
9:00 AM
Adverse impacts of the global economic crisis on public health
Barry S. Levy, MD, MPH and Victor W. Sidel, MD
     
9:15 AM
Response to the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar
Daniel Susott, MD, MPH
     
9:30 AM
Update on the new certification examination in public health
Walter Tsou, MD, MPH
     
9:45 AM
Current food crisis in the United States
Leslie Mikkelsen, MPH, RD
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: APHA

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