ATSDR Cooperative Agreement Program Meeting with National Partner Organizations: May 20-22, 2008 - Atlanta, GA
Lisa Matthews represented ECOS at the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) meeting of its cooperative agreement state principal investigators and other national partner organizations. The theme of the meeting was Expanding Partnering Opportunities in Environmental Public Health. The purpose of the meeting was to bring these groups together to begin identifying areas of collaboration and opportunities to strengthen environmental health activities through state health and environment departments. Other national partner organizations participating in the meeting were the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) and their State Environmental Health Directors, the American Public Health Association (APHA), and the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA).
Presentation on ECOS and Environmental Health by Lisa Matthews, ECOS Environmental Health Forum Staff
2008 Spring Meeting Opening Plenary Session
Presentation on The Built Environment and Public Health: The Role of State Environmental Agencies by Dr. Howard Frumkin, Director, National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2008 Spring Meeting Environmental Health Forum/Planning Committee Working Session on the Built Environment: April 14, 2008 - New Orleans, LA
Presentation on Arizona's Children's Environmental Health & Smart Growth Initiatives by Steve Owens, Director, Arizona DEQ
Presentation on Addressing Traffic and Air Quality through Demand Management - Atlanta's Experience by Kevin Green, Executive Director, The Clean Air Campaign
Slides 8 & 9 in the Green PowerPoint presentation appear blank. They are placeholders for the following two video clips.
Presentation on Building the Next Generation of Environmental Stewards by Amey Marrella, Deputy Commissioner, Connecticut DEP
2007 Northwest Environmental Health Forum
Leaders of the state environment and state health agencies in USEPA's Region 10 - Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington - have held Northwest Environmental Health Forums in 2006 and 2007 in conjunction with the ECOS Annual Meeting to discuss regional environmental health issues. For more information about the Northwest Environmental Health Forums, please contact Margo Young, Children's Environmental Health Coordinator, USEPA Region 10, at young.margo@epa.gov.
The following documents are the agenda and presentations from the meeting.
- Health Forum Agenda
- Washington State "Healthy Choice" Presentation
- Utah's "Building State Capacity to Address Children's Environmental Health" Presentation
- Idaho's "Particulate Matter and Health Effects in North Idaho" Presentation
- USEPA's "Health and Environment Informatics Opportunities" Presentation
2006 Northwest Environmental Health Forum
The following documents are the agenda, presentations and notes from the meeting.