Calendar
April
4-6, 2000
HAZMAT
2000 Spills Prevention Conference.
Regal Riverfront Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri.
The HAZMAT
2000 Spills Prevention Conference provides
an opportunity for communities, industry, states,
and nations to examine existing policies and tools that
foster hazardous material accident prevention, preparedness,
and response activities. Sponsors of this year’s
conference include the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
Coast Guard,
Federal Emergency Management Agency,
and Department of Transportation;
the
Great Lakes Commission;
the St. Louis Metropolitan Manufacturers
Association, the Fire Department, and
the Local Emergency Planning Committee; the Missouri
Department of Natural Resources and
Emergency Response
Commission; the National Response Team;
the National Governor’s Association; the Regional Commerce
and Growth Association; the
National Association of Chemical Distributors;
and the
Chemical Educational Foundation.
Contact:
Great Lakes Commission, Attn:
HAZMAT 2000, 400 Fourth Street, The Argus
II Building, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103; phone: (703)934-3760;
fax: (734) 665-4370; e-mail: hazmat2000@nrt.org;
or visit the Internet site: http:://www.nrt.org/nrt/hazmat2000/hazmat2000.nsf.
May
12-19, 2000
American
Occupational Health Conference
(AOHC). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The AOHC
2000 The
Future Is Now! Conference will offer
continuing
education, pre- and post-conference workshops, and
joint seminars. Advance registration deadline is
April 14, 2000 for non-members, April 7 for members.
Contact:
The American Association of Occupational
Health Nurses,
Inc., Suite 100, 2920 Brandywine Road,
Atlanta, Georgia 30341; phone: (770) 455-7757; fax:
(770) 455-7271; e-mail: aaohn@aaohn.org ; or visit the
Internet site: www.aaohn.org .
May
20-25, 2000
American
Industrial Hygiene Association’s
Conference & Exposition (AIHCE), Orange
County Convention Center, Orlando, Florida. The
AIHCE–Orlando 2000 theme is Prevention–Our Mission
for the 21st Century.
This conference presents information on industrial hygiene, safety,
and environmental and
occupational health. The conference will offer pre-conference
professional development
courses, roundtable discussions,
case study presentations, forums, specialty lectures,
and poster presentations, among others.
Contact: The American
Industrial Hygiene Association, 2700 Prosperity
Avenue, Suite 250, Fairfax, Virginia 22031; phone:
(703) 849-8888; fax: (703) 207-3561; e-mail: adesroches@aiha.org
; or visit the Internet site: www.aiha.org/conf.html
.
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Satellite
Broadcast Training Opportunities in Environmental Health Slated
for Summer
May
11, 2000, 12:00 – 2:30 p.m. ET
GIS in Public Health: Using
Mapping and Spatial Analysis Technologies for Health Protection
Geographic Information System (GIS) technology helps
public health
professionals better understand the health issues
they face every day. GIS layers in a geographic format
health, demographic, environmental, and other data
to allow for easier analysis. This broadcast will showcase
a wide range of research and surveillance purposes
for GIS.
August
10, 2000, 12:00 – 2:30 p.m. ET
Environmental Health: A
Nursing Opportunity
Nurses are increasingly being asked to address health concerns
associated with exposure to hazards in the environment.
This live broadcast will address environmental health
issues and provide training in how to take an
exposure history, strategies for intervention and prevention,
and related tools and resources to integrate into
their areas of practice.
For more information on these programs, go to http://www.cdc.gov/phtn
and select "Mark Your
Calendar" or
contact Diane Drew via e-mail dhd6@cdc.gov
or by telephone at 404.639.6338.
(Sponsored
by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.)
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Who's
Making News at ATSDR...
Dr.
Henry Falk Appointed New Assistant Administrator for ATSDR
Dr. Henry Falk is now the
assistant administrator for ATSDR. Named by Dr. Jeffrey
Koplan, ATSDR administrator,
and approved by the U.S. Health and Human
Services’
Secretary Donna E. Shalala, Dr. Falk officially
took office in August 1999. He began serving as acting assistant administrator
in April 1999. Formerly,
he was the director of
the Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects, National Center
for Environmental Health (NCEH),
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC),
since 1985.
Dr. Falk began his career
with CDC in 1972 as an epidemic intelligence service officer stationed
at the Texas
Children’s Hospital, Houston.
His early work played a role in the creation of the NCEH, where he
was instrumental in initiating
activities to help eliminate childhood lead poisoning. He has also contributed
to numerous projects
and programs at CDC concerned with such issues as response tactics to
natural and technological
disasters, studies at Superfund sites, the environmental epidemiology
research program to identify
new diseases and increase knowledge of environmental hazards, and air
pollution and the respiratory health
program (asthma initiative, NCEH). He also has worked with the Veterans’
Administration and the
U.S. Department of Defense
on the Gulf War Syndrome.
Dr. Falk received his doctorate
of medicine from the Albert Einstein
College of Medicine, New York City, New York;
his masters of public health degree from
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts;
and is board certified in pediatrics, public health, and general preventive
medicine.
At ATSDR, Dr. Falk states
that he will continue to work to increase awareness of environmental
health and improve
efforts to prevent or reduce adverse health affects that can result
from exposure to hazardous substances
in our environment.
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ATSDR
Expands Cooperative Agreement Partnerships
To
conduct public health education and health promotion activities nationwide,
collaborative projects and partnerships
must be established with national organizations of health
professionals. ATSDR has now increased its cooperative
agreements with national organizations from 5 to 10 and through these
partnerships now reaches more than 80,000
health professionals. Through this network, knowledge
of environmental health concerns increases and health care
providers are better able to address the public health concerns of the
people they serve. The 10 organizations are
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