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Children’s Health and the Environment Workshop
A 2008 Children's Environmental Health (CEH) Workshop is being organized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 8, the Rocky Mountain Region Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (RMR PEHSU), the Wyoming Department of Health and the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality.
Detailed information about the workshop (PDF 4 pp, 349K)
A note about electronic registration:
The course fee is $35. Please note that the fee listed on the Denver Health & Hospital Authority Online Registration System Web page is listed as $0 because the registration system is not able to process electronic payment at this time. Once you are registered, you will be invoiced electronically.
Checks for the $35 course fee should be made out to: "Denver Health" and mailed to Cece Garcia, Denver Health Medical Center, 777 Bannock Street, Mail Code 1914, Denver, CO 80204. If you have any questions about the electronic registration please contact Cece Garcia at 303-436-4406.
Register for the WY Children's Environmental Health Workshop.
The goals of the CEH Workshop are to:
- Increase the ability of health, environmental, and education professionals
to identify, prevent, and reduce environmental health threats to children.
- Share information, resources, "best practices", and emerging science
regarding the protection of children's health from environmental hazards.
- Encourage coordination and information sharing across government agencies,
health organizations, health care providers, educators, and the general public
in addressing children's environmental health issues.
- Identify actions that can be implemented throughout the Region to protect children from environmental health threats.
- Provide public health professionals with an opportunity to identify/implement effective children's health strategies in advance of Children's Health Month in October.
The target audience includes: Health, environmental, and education professionals, health care providers, public health nurses, school nurses, day care providers, child/youth organizations, parents, and the general public.
September 29th (12:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.) to September 30th (8:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.), 2008
Location: The workshop will be held at the Hilton Garden Inn, located at 1150 N. Poplar Street in Casper.
Keynote Speaker:
Amy Kyle, PhD, MPH, Environmental Health Sciences Division, School of Public
Health, University of California, Berkeley.
Amy D. Kyle has research and teaching appointments at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a co-investigator at the Center for Excellence in Environmental Public Health Tracking, leader of the research translation core for the Superfund Basic Research Program, and co-investigator with colleagues at the US Environmental Protection Agency on America’s Children and the Environment. Her research focuses on translation of scientific results for policy and stakeholder audiences, methods to link science and policy, and children’s environmental health. Early in her career, she spent 13 years in public service in environmental protection, natural resources management, and public health and retains a keen interest in improving public health practice. She received her MPH and her PhD in environmental health sciences and policy from the University of California at Berkeley and her BA from Harvard College. Her current professional activities include: Elected Councilor, Environment Section, American Public Health Association 2005–2007; National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Emerging Issues and Data on Environmental Contaminants 2004–2006; and, Co-chair, California Breast Cancer Research Program Council 2006–2007.
For additional information, call Dr. Timothy P. Ryan, Environmental
Public Health Section Chief, Wyoming Department of Health at (307)777-2931;
or, Alicia Aalto, Regional Children's Environmental Health Coordinator, US Environmental
Protection Agency, Region 8 at (303)312-6967.
