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| Title: | EPA Forum on Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention |
| Date: | Thursday, May 29, 2003 |
| Location: | Grand Hyatt Washington At Washington Center 1000 H Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 See Logistics below for information regarding hotel reservations. |
| Contact: | Nigel Fields, (202) 564-6936 or fields.nigel@epa.gov Tina Conley (202) 564-3209 or conley.tina@epa.gov |
| Purpose: | The National Center for Environmental Research's
STAR grant program is pleased to sponsor EPA's first Forum on Children's
Environmental Health and Disease Prevention. This roundtable format
will allow EPA managers, regulators, scientists, and community liaisons
the opportunity for dialogue with researchers and community partners
of the Centers of Excellence for Children's Environmental Health and
Disease Prevention. Together, EPA and the university researchers and
their community partners will identify areas of consideration for
regulatory or policy improvements and concepts for new programmatic
initiatives. The forum is designed to cover three primary topic areas,
including: (1) exposures to air toxins and asthma; (2) neuro-behaviorial
toxins such as mercury, lead, and PCBs and their potential health
effects; and (3) pesticide exposures in the urban and agricultural
settings and potential developmental health effects. There will be
considerable discussion on interventions, such as integrated pest
management, and prevention of harmful exposures. The forum will include
a poster session for optimal interactions with the Center researchers.
In 1998, EPA's National Center for Environmental Research (NCER), in cooperation with the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), funded 8 Centers of Excellence for Children's Health and Disease Prevention Research. EPA and NIEHS expanded this program to 12 Centers in 2001. These Centers were focused on research to elucidate the role played by environmental exposures in asthma and developmental disease among children. The Centers provide an atmosphere for scientists to interact in establishing outstanding, state-of-the-art research programs addressing environmental contributions to children's health and disease. They also facilitate the translation of basic science knowledge into strategies that can reduce the incidence of environmentally related childhood disease. |
| Registration: | Registration is closed. |
| Logistics: | view Logistics Information |
| Agenda: | view Agenda |