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Changing Climate, Changing Health Patterns: What Will It Take to Predict and Protect?
May 14, 2008
A forum presented by the
World Federation of Public Health Associations
American Public Health Association
US Group on Earth Observations
From events such as hurricanes, heat waves and life-threatening floods, to new infectious disease pathways and processes, there is a global need to get ahead of the curve, to provide new analytical tools, access to real-time data, and forecasts about emerging disease and other acute threats that read like today’s weather reports. Join leading national scientists in examining what it will take to predict and protect in an uncertain world, a world in which adaptation is essential and history’s lessons no longer fit the circumstances.
Wed., June 18
National Press Club
529 14th Street NW (14th and F Streets)
Washington, D.C.
10 am–Noon
Please Reserve Early! RSVP to vina.hulamm@apha.org or to http://www.apha.org/programs/globalhealth/wfpha/ccrsvp.htm
Program, Welcome
Georges Benjamin, MD, American Public Health Association
Barbara Hatcher, PhD, MPH, RN, Secretary-General, The World Federation of Public Health Associations
Keynote Addresses:
Vice Admiral USN (Ret.) Conrad C. Lautenbacher, PhD, Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, Administrator, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, International Co-chair, Group on Earth Observations
Frank Rijsberman, PhD, Director of Water and Climate Adaptation Initiatives, Google.org
Panel Discussion:
Robert W. Corell, PhD, Director, Global Change Program, Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment
Bryan McNally, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Section of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
Joshua P. Rosenthal, PhD, Deputy Division Director and Biodiversity Program Director, Division of International Training and Research, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health
Madeleine Thomson, PhD, Director, Impacts Research, Co-Director, Africa Program, International Research Institute for Climate and Prediction, Earth Institute at Columbia University
Moderator:
Leonard P. Hirsch, PhD, Senior Science Policy Adviser, Smithsonian Institution, Member, White House Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, Deputy Head, US Delegation, UN Convention on Biological Diversity
Audience Discussion
For more information, visit:
http://www.apha.org/programs/globalhealth/wfpha/ccrsvp.htm
category: Member Organization News : Advocacy Events
contributed by Liza Nanni on 14 May 2008
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