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Updated March 15, 2010 |  | Teleconference/Webcast: Oregon School Indoor Air Quality Partnership Webinar Series: Radon
Thursday March 18, 2010
noon - 12:45 p.m. Pacific time
Sponsor: American Lung Association in Oregon
This webinar series focuses on health outcomes of proactive indoor air quality programs and trigger strategies around the areas of asthma, radon, integrated pest management, and diesel retrofitting.
Price: free, but space is limited
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Contact: Michelle Cunha, 503-718-6159 or michelle@lungoregon.org
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 | Request for Proposals: Developing Public Health Capacity and Adaptations to Reduce Human Health Effects of Climate Change
Deadline: March 22, 2010
Sponsor: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
This funding opportunity award (FOA) will build the capacity of state health departments, U.S. Territories, and Native American Tribal Health agencies to address the public health consequences of climate change and its implications on human health.
Award: $80,000 - $120,000
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Contact: CDC Procurement and Grants Office, 770-488-2700 or PGOTIM@cdc.gov
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 | Conference/Seminar: Confluences: Water & Justice
Friday through Sunday, March 26 - 28, 2010
Portland, Oregon
at the University of Portland
Sponsor: see the Sponsors page
This symposium will bring together some of the nation's leading experts to examine various perspectives on water, including environmental justice, protection, science, theology, business, history, law, and the Native American perspective. Maude Barlow – author, activist, and senior advisor on water to the president of the UN General Assembly – gives the keynote address on Saturday night.
Price: The conference is free; tickets for Maude Barlow's keynote are $10 per person or free for ILLAHEE season ticket holders, conference hosts and sponsors, and University of Portland faculty, staff, and students.
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Contact: Amy Leisher, 503-943-7864 or leisher@up.edu
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 | Lecture: PM2.5 Air Pollution and the Cardio-metabolic Syndrome: A two-way Street?
Thursday April 1, 2010
12:30 - 1:20 p.m.
Seattle, Washington
at the University of Washington School of Public Health, room HSB D-209
Sponsor: University of Washington Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
The speaker will be Robert D. Brook, MD, associate professor in the University of Michigan Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine.
Price: free
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| Teleconference/Webcast: EPA Grants Award Process Webinar
Thursday April 1, 2010
2:00 p.m. Eastern time
Sponsor: US Environmental Protection Agency
EPA's Office of Grants and Debarment is hosting a webinar for the EPA grants community. If you are interested in applying for EPA grants or are currently managing an EPA grant, please consider attending this one hour webinar. The webinar will cover grants topics, including how to find and apply for grant opportunities, an update on the status of Grants.gov, and preparing a proper budget detail.
Price: free
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Contact: Elizabeth January, 617-918-1315 or january.elizabeth@epa.gov
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| Teleconference/Webcast: Oregon School Indoor Air Quality Partnership Webinar Series: Diesel Retrofitting
Monday April 5, 2010
noon - 12:45 p.m. Pacific time
Sponsor: American Lung Association in Oregon
This webinar series focuses on health outcomes of proactive indoor air quality programs and trigger strategies around the areas of asthma, radon, integrated pest management, and diesel retrofitting.
Price: free, but space is limited
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Contact: Michelle Cunha, 503-718-6159 or michelle@lungoregon.org
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| Request for Proposals: Pesticide Safety Program for Agricultural Workers and Farmworker Children
Deadline: Monday April 5, 2010
Sponsor: US Environmental Protection Agency
The Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) is soliciting applications from eligible parties for an EPA cooperative agreement to provide financial assistance to an eligible organization for an education and training pesticide safety program aimed at reducing exposure to pesticides for agricultural workers, their families and the agricultural community. The grantee will conduct a national train-the-trainer program to educate farmworkers about how to reduce risks from pesticides.
Award: The estimated funding available for award in FY 2010 is expected to be approximately $350,000. At the conclusion of the first one year period of performance, incremental funding of up to $400,000 may be made available for each additional year allowing the project to continue for a total of five (5) periods of performance (approximately 5 years) and a total of up to $1,950,000 for the five-year period, depending on need and the Agency budget in outlying years.
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Contact: Carol Parker, 703-305-6458 or parker.carol@epa.gov
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| Teleconference/Webcast: Slow Death By Rubber Duck Webinar
Tuesday April 6, 2010
5:00 p.m. Pacific time / 8:00 p.m. Eastern time
Sponsor: Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
Studies show that harmful toxic chemicals are common in household items, including rubber ducks and bubble bath, and that many of these chemicals are also found inside of our bodies. Over a four-day period, Slow Death By Rubber Duck authors Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie used everyday household products suspected of causing harm to our ecosystem and to human health. By revealing the pollution load in their bodies before and after the experiment, Rick and Bruce tell a unique inside story of common toxins and body burden. On the April 6 Webinar, author and Executive Director of Environmental Defence Canada Rick Smith will read from Slow Death By Rubber Duck, and we'll discuss toxic chemicals found in products as common as hand soap and what you can do to protect your family and the planet. Preregistration is required. The recorded webinar will be available on the Safe Cosmetics website after the event.
Price: free
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 | Training/Workshop: Public Relations Training for Environmental Professionals – Perfecting Environmental Communication with the Public, Press, and Industry
Tuesday and Wednesday, April 6 - 7, 2010
Seattle, Washington
at EOS Alliance (NWETC) Headquarters, 650 South Orcas Street, Suite 220
Sponsor: EOS Alliance
A well-designed public relations program can supercharge your organization's image, reputation and success. During this intensive two-day course, you will obtain a fundamental background on the key issues, concepts and practice of effective communications and media relations, with the focus on environmental projects. The course is designed to provide participants with an insight on fundamentals and practicalities behind public-relations practice in the context of protocol functions and communications planning.
Price: $495/*$395 for Native American tribes; government employees; nonprofits; students; and AFS, NAEP, NEBC, NWAEP members; a $50 early-bird savings applies to registrations received by March 5, 2010
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Contact: Northwest Environmental Training Center, 206-762-1976
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| Request for Proposals: Smart Growth Program
Deadline: Friday April 9, 2010
3:00 p.m. Eastern time
Sponsor: US Environmental Protection Agency
The Development, Community, and Environment Division (DCED), known as the Smart Growth Program, in EPA's Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation is seeking letters of interest from states, regions, and communities that want to develop in ways that reflect the principles of smart growth and meet environmental and other goals. EPA will provide technical assistance to successful applicants.
Award: approximately $70,000 per recipient in contractor support
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Contact: Kevin Nelson, nelson.kevin@epa.gov
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| Teleconference/Webcast: Adaptive Behavior and the School Environment
Tuesday April 13, 2010
2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Eastern time
Sponsor: American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
In The School and Society John Dewey writes: "From the standpoint of the child, the great waste in the school comes from his inability to utilize the experiences he gets outside the school in any complete and free way within the school itself; while on the other hand, he is unable to apply in daily life what he is learning at school. That is the isolation of the school – its isolation from life." This isolation is even more profound for children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. In Schools of To-morrow John Dewey expands this: "[t]he child is best prepared for life as an adult by experiencing in childhood what has meaning to him as a child." The present method of identifying an appropriate placement for child with a disability within a school frequently ignores the influence that the environment has on the child and instead focuses almost exclusively on the child's disabilities independent of the environmental confounders. Brent Ibata, PhD, JD, will present on this webinar; his talk will explore those environmental influences known to impact the health, behavior and academic achievement of the child. To achieve full societal inclusion and participation for children with intellectual and developmental disabilities reasonable accommodations to the school environment must be considered as part of any placement decision. Only with safe and healthy school environments will a disabled child be able to achieve full adaptive behavior potential as an adult.
Price: free
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| Training/Workshop: EH@Home
April 14th (West Salem), April 20th (Eugene), May 5th (Oregon City) or May 19th (Portland)
10:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Sponsor: Oregon State University partnership between the Extension Service and the Environmental Health Sciences Center, funded by the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences
This educational forum is for individuals and professionals who have an interest in environmental health in the home. EH@Home will focus on common environmental health concerns found in residential settings. OSU Faculty will present the latest research findings on key environmental health issues in residential settings. Through engaging, hands-on activities participants will be able to recognize common problems, identify risk reduction strategies, and know when to use specialists for further assistance. These workshops will focus on practical, low- and no-cost solutions to many common environmental health issues in the home. Lunch will be provided along with a Certificate of Attendance.
Price: free
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Contact: Dave Stone, 541-737-4433 or Dave.Stone@oregonstate.edu
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| Lecture: Quantitation of Human Exposures to OP-Nerve Agents and Mycotoxins
Thursday April 15, 2010
12:30 - 1:20 p.m.
Seattle, Washington
at the University of Washington School of Public Health, room HSB D-209
Sponsor: University of Washington Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
The speaker will be Rudy Johnson, PhD, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Price: free
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| Request for Proposals: NCMHD Disparities Research and Education Advancing Mission (DREAM) Career Transition Award (K22)
Deadline: Letters of Intent are due Saturday April 24, 2010
Sponsor: US Department of Health and Human Services / National Institutes of Health, National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities
This purpose of the NCMHD DREAM Career Transition Award (K22) is to facilitate the transition of early-stage investigators working in health disparities or areas that address health disparity conditions and populations from the mentored stage of career development to the independent stage of investigator-initiated health disparities research. The program will provide an opportunity for investigators to develop solid research skills during the initial period of up to two years of study and research within the environment of the NIH Intramural Research Programs located at the NIH.
Award: up to $200,000 per individual
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| Request for Proposals: Exploring New Air Pollution – Health Effects Links in Existing Datasets
Deadline: Tuesday April 27, 2010
Sponsor: US Environmental Protection Agency
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, is seeking applications proposing to use existing datasets from health studies to analyze health outcomes for which the link to air pollution is not well established, or to evaluate underlying heterogeneity in health responses among subgroups defined by susceptibility or extent and/or composition of exposure.
Award: up to a total of $300,000, including direct and indirect costs, with a maximum duration of 3 years
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Contact: see the website
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| Call for Abstracts: NADD Annual 27th Conference & Exhibit Show for 2010
Deadline: Saturday May 1, 2010
Seattle, Washington
Sponsor: National Association for the Dually Diagnosed
The conference is scheduled for November 3 - 5, 2010. Presentation categories include 1) Presentation/Skill Building Workshop, 2) Research Symposium and 3) Poster Session. Presentations are invited in a variety of topics, including environmental health.
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| Request for Proposals: Environmental Health Science Innovation Fund
Deadline: Monday May 3, 2010
Sponsor: Passport Foundation
Through its Science Innovation Fund, Passport Foundation provides modest support for US-based scientific research projects that demonstrate strong potential for significantly advancing the environmental health science needed to promulgate effective chemicals regulation, public health policies and clinical care policies/practices. Priority in this funding initiative will be given to research projects that have a significant link to an ongoing or future policy debate.
Award: $5,000 - $50,000
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Contact: info@passportfoundation.org
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| Teleconference/Webcast: Oregon School Indoor Air Quality Partnership Webinar Series: Asthma
Tuesday May 4, 2010
noon - 12:45 p.m. Pacific time
Sponsor: American Lung Association in Oregon
This webinar series focuses on health outcomes of proactive indoor air quality programs and trigger strategies around the areas of asthma, radon, integrated pest management, and diesel retrofitting.
Price: free, but space is limited
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Contact: Michelle Cunha, 503-718-6159 or michelle@lungoregon.org
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| Conference/Seminar: Community-Campus Partnerships for Health 11th Conference
Wednesday through Saturday, May 12 - 15, 2010
Portland, Oregon
Sponsor: Community-Campus Partnerships for Health and Northwest Health Foundation
This conference will nurture a growing network of community-campus partnerships that are striving to solve our most pressing health, social and economic challenges. With its focus on Creating the Future We Want to Be, the conference seeks to empower individuals and partnerships to create a just and sustainable future, so that we need not be passive participants in the status quo or mere witnesses to the change determined by others. With its focus on Transformation through Partnerships, the conference seeks to highlight the power of partnerships to lead and inspire transformation at all levels.
Price: unknown; registration opens January 2010
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Contact: CCPH, 206-666-3406 or ccphuw@u.washington.edu
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| Request for Proposals: Mechanisms Underlying the Links between Psychosocial Stress, Aging, the Brain and the Body
Deadline: Saturday September 8, 2012
Sponsor: US Department of Health and Human Services
This FOA encourages multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research to elucidate the mechanistic links between psychosocial stress and health in aging, as well as how the aging process and age-related diseases affect the responses to psychosocial stressors. Generally, research should be focused on (1) aging and how neural mechanisms respond to psychosocial stress and affect other body systems; (2) characterizing the behavioral, psychological and social mechanisms and pathways involved in transducing psychosocial stressors into health outcomes; (3) how stressors modulate physiological process underlying lifespan, immune mechanisms, and metabolism; and (4) how psychosocial stress contributes to the development or progression of geriatric syndromes, chronic medical conditions, and disabilities in later life. Research is strongly encouraged that aims to identify appropriate targets for intervention, at any level of analysis, from societal to molecular. Research spanning multiple levels of analysis is particularly encouraged. Research focused on oxidative stress or on environmental or physical stressors of a non-psychosocial nature is not appropriate to this FOA.
Award: varies
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| Request for Proposals: Diet, Epigenetic Events, and Cancer Prevention
Deadline: Saturday September 8, 2012
Sponsor: US Department of Health and Human Services
The aim of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA), issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), and the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is to promote clinical and preclinical research to determine how diet and dietary factors, including dietary supplements, impact DNA methylation, histone posttranslational modification, noncoding RNA, and other epigenetic processes involved in cancer prevention and development. Another important aim of this FOA is to encourage collaborations between nutrition and epigenetic experts to study bioactive food components with cancer-preventive properties and to examine key epigenetic events in cancer processes (e.g., carcinogen metabolism, cell division, differentiation, and apoptosis) in order to begin to establish linkages between epigenetics, methylation patterns, and tumor incidences/behaviors.
Award: varies
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| Request for Proposals: Nutrition and Physical Activity Research to Promote Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Health
Deadline: Saturday September 8, 2012
Sponsor: US Department of Health and Human Services
This FOA encourages Research Project Grant (R01) applications that propose research on the roles of nutrition and physical activity in the development, prevention, and management of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) or pulmonary diseases. In particular, the FOA aims to (1) improve knowledge of the contribution of diet and physical activity to these conditions and how sleep influences these relationships, (2) increase the evidence base for refining public health recommendations and clinical guidelines regarding these lifestyle behaviors, and (3) develop and test strategies to improve the adoption of these recommendations.
Award: varies
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| Conference/Seminar: IFEH 11th World Congress on Environmental Health
Friday September 10, 2010
Vancouver, British Columbia Canada
Sponsor: International Federation of Environmental Health
The theme "Global Health Protection From Sea to Sky" provides a broad platform from which we will explore universal challenges to environmental health in an era of increasing globalization.
Price: unknown
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| Request for Proposals: Health Impact Assessment Demonstration Projects
Deadline: There is no deadline to submit a letter of interest. The Health Impact Project will accept applications on a rolling basis until all grant funds are committed.
Sponsor: The Health Impact Project
Health Impact Assessments (HIAs) bring together relevant public input, available data and a range of qualitative and quantitative methods to anticipate the potential health consequences of a proposed policy, program or project. The goal of the CFP and subsequent HIAs is to improve health, demonstrate the effectiveness of HIAs and promote their incorporation into local, state, tribal, and federal decisionmaking. Government agencies, educational institutions and nonprofit organizations are encouraged to apply.
Award: $25,000 to $150,000
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