Policy Maker Education: Course for Congressional Staff
Environmental Change: The Science and Human Health Impacts
April 12-14, 2004, The Airlie Center, Warrenton, Virginia
Agenda
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Morning Program: 8:30-1:00
Welcome and Introductions:
Eric Chivian M.D.
Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment
Harvard Medical School
Video
What is Known about MTBE and Human Health?
Lynn R. Goldman M.D., M.P.H.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Video
Sewage Sludge -- Potential Health Impacts
Tom Burke Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Video
Lunch: 12:30-2:00
Afternoon Program: 2:30-5:00
Mercury in Seafood and Potential Health Risks
David Bellinger, Ph.D., M.Sc., Harvard Medical School
Video
PCBs and the Risk to Human Health
David O. Carpenter M.D.
School of Public Health, University at Albany, SUNY
Video
Artificial Wetlands and Storm Water Runoff (with a comment on the Evergaldes
and Wetlands Reconstruction in Iraq)
Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm Ph.D.
University of Miami
Video
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14
Morning Program: 9:00-12:00
Introductions
Eric Chivian M.D.
Review of the Latest Climate Change Science
David Rind Ph.D.
Columbia University
Video • Overheads
Climate Change and Human Infectious Diseases
Jonathan Patz M.D., M.P.H.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Video Not Available
Panel Discussion on Reducing Greenhouse
Gases in Large Corporations:
Representatives from Swiss Re,
BP and 3M
Video
1 • Video 2
Lunch: 1:00-2:30
Afternoon Program: 2:30-5:00
Sustainable Fisheries
Carl Safina Ph.D.
Blue Ocean Institute
Video
Air Pollution, "Clear Skies," and
Human Health
Joel Schwartz Ph.D.
Harvard School of Public Health
Video
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