When: May 24–26, 2004
Where: Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, DC
Institute: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

This conference will examine how buildings and other constructed parts of our environment contribute to obesity, through, for example, facilitating access to food and reducing the need for physical activity. The conference also will investigate how environmental health research and interventions can address the public health problem of obesity.

Who Should Attend?

• Academicians from schools of public health, architecture, planning, medicine, and nursing.
  
  
• Representatives of environmental, health, planning, and transportation agencies of federal, state, and local governments.
  
  
• Advocacy and public health professional organizations and associations.
  
  
• Community and business leaders.
  
  
• Policy makers, urban planners, communication specialists, health educators, physicians, nurses, and public health practitioners.

Next Steps
For more information, please visit www.niehs.nih.gov/drcpt/beoconf.

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