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Online Program

4058.0
Climate change and public health (Collaborative session with ENV Section)

Tuesday, November 3, 2015: 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Oral
Session Objectives: Identify the specific impacts on the environment and human health of climate change. Demonstrate the need for action to protect workers' health and safety in the face of climate change.
Moderator:
Barry Levy, MD, MPH

8:30am
Heat stress intervention to prevent Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) in El Salvador   

David Wegman, MD, MSc, Theo Bodin, MD, PhD, Ilana Weiss, MA, MPH, Ramón García Trabanino, MD, MSc, Jason Glaser, BA, Emmanuel Jarquin, MD and Catharina Wesseling, MD, PhD
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
8:46am
Advancing Communication of Climate Change as an Important Public Health and Equity Issue: California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and San Luis Obispo County Public Health Department Pilot Campaign   

Brooke Sommerfeldt, MPH, Kathleen Karle, MEd, MCHES and Kathy Dervin, MPH
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
  
9:02am
Climate change and health 101: Educating public health professionals in Illinois   

Elena Grossman, MPH and Samuel Dorevitch, MD, MPH
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
9:18am
Development of a Climate Change Research Agenda for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health   

Max Kiefer, MS, CIH and Joanna Watson, MSc, DPhil
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
  

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

Organized by: Occupational Health and Safety
Endorsed by: Law, Vietnam Caucus

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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