ATSDR National Environmental Public Health Conference:
Advancing Environmental Public Health - Science, Practice, New Frontiers
2006 National Environmental Public Health Conference
Conference Overview
The National Center for Environmental Health(http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/) and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry(http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/) (NCEH/ATSDR), CDC, hosted its seventh National Environmental Public Health Conference. The theme of the conference was "Advancing Environmental Public Health: Advancing Environmental Public Health LogoScience, Practice, New Frontiers."
Date: December 4 - 6, 2006
Location: Hilton Atlanta Hotel
255 Courtland Street, NE
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
(404) 659-2000
Attendance: 1,600+
Conference Objectives
The conference addressed the need to revitalize environmental public health, and how to chart the nation's vision for the future. There were six plenary sessions, 75 workshops, and 40 exhibits and poster displays that addressed a wide-range of topics from emerging threats to a myriad of everyday environmental public health issues.
Topics included bio-monitoring; climate change; environmental justice; environmental public health tracking; food and water protection; health disparities; healthy places and healthy homes; indoor air quality; injury prevention; laboratory science and service; preparedness & response; public health policy and law; toxicants, exposures, and contaminants; vector management; and workforce development.
The conference brought together a cross-section of federal, state, tribal, local, and international colleagues within the field of environmental public health and its allied professions, including:
Environmental public health program managers and practitioners who represent federal, state, tribal, and local governments, including those responsible for preparedness and response to terrorism and natural disasters
Academicians and students from schools of public health, and from universities and colleges with environmental public health programs
Representatives of advocacy and community-based organizations
Representatives of Industry
Physicians
Public health nurses and students from schools of nursing
Toxicologists
Laboratorians
Researchers
Health education specialist and communication specialists
Epidemiologists
Statisticians
Urban planners
Policy and decision makers
Continuing Education Units (CEU) were available for attendances at the conference.