4108.0 State environmental public health programs; Innovation and resourcefulness for emerging threats

Tuesday, October 30, 2012: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Oral
This session offers solutions and experience to address state-level public health emerging threats in the areas of climate change, indoor air quality, and biomonitoring. Understanding program capacity, evaluating National Weather Service criteria, tackling indoor air quality issues, and communicating biomonitoring data are all important questions for state-level public health.
Session Objectives: Define two innovative programs among state environmental public health programs.
Organizer:
Amy Dunn, MPH
Moderator:
Amy Dunn, MPH

10:30am
Developing an online presence as a strategy for engaging the public in a state biomonitoring program: Successes and limitations
Amy Dunn, MPH, Laurie Monserrat, MS and Sara Hoover, MS, Chief
     
10:50am
Evaluating excessive heat warnings for public health sensitivities
Paul B. English, PhD and Galatea King, MPH
     
11:10am
Climate and health: A state health agency perspective on the changing climate
Surili Sutaria, MS and Kathleen Dolan
     
11:30am
Indoor environmental quality complaints to state health departments: The unrecognized challenge
Clifford Mitchell, MS, MD, MPH and Nancy Goff, MPH

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

Organized by: Environment

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)

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