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Updated February 2, 2012 |  | Conference/Seminar: 2012 Conference: From Crib to Classroom
Saturday February 4, 2012
8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Shoreline, Washington
at the Shoreline Conference Center, 18560 1st Avenue NE
Sponsor: Families and Children Early Support (FACES)
One workshop at the conference, to be offered in both morning and afternoon sessions, will present how a child care can become Eco-Healthy Child Care-certified, creating child care settings that are as environmentally healthy as possible.
Price: $50 by January 27th or $60 on site
Contact: 206-329-1011 ext. 231
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 | Meeting: Small Communities Advisory Subcommittee Meeting
Monday February 6, 2012
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Eastern time
Sponsor: US Environmental Protection Agency
The subcommittee will discuss sustainable communities, drinking water regulations and other issues and recommendations to the administrator regarding environmental issues affecting small communities. This is an open meeting and all interested persons are invited to participate. The subcommittee will hear comments from the public between 1:40 and 2:00 p.m. Eastern time. Individuals or organizations wishing to address the Committee will be allowed a maximum of five minutes to present their point of view. Also, written comments should be submitted electronically to Cathy Davis (see contact information below). Please contact the Designated Federal Officer (DFO) at the number listed below to schedule a time on the agenda. Time will be allotted on a first-come first-serve basis, and the total period for comments may be extended if the number of requests for appearances requires it.
Price: free
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Contact: Cathy Davis, Designated Federal Officer for the Small Communities Advisory Subcommittee (SCAS), 202-564-2703 or davis.catherinem@epa.gov
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| Meeting: Local Government Advisory Committee
Monday February 6, 2012
2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Eastern time
Sponsor: US Environmental Protection Agency
The committee will discuss the recommendations of the LGAC Workgroups and the Small Communities Advisory Subcommittee (SCAS). This is an open meeting and all interested persons are invited to participate. The Committee will hear comments from the public between 2:40 and 3:00 p.m. Eastern time. Individuals or organizations wishing to address the committee will be allowed a maximum of five minutes to present their point of view. Also, written comments should be submitted electronically to Frances Eargle (contact information is below). Please contact the Designated Federal Officer (DFO) at the number listed below to schedule a time on the agenda. Time will be allotted on a first-come first-serve basis, and the total period for comments may be extended if the number of requests for appearances requires it.
Price: free
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Contact: Frances Eargle at (202) 564-3115 or eargle.frances@epa.gov
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 | Request for Proposals: Limited Competition: Planning Grants for Hubs of Interdisciplinary Research and Training in Global Environmental and Occupational Health
Deadline: Tuesday February 7, 2012
Sponsor: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is intended to support paired consortium exploratory awards led by one Low and Middle Income Country (LMIC) institution and one US institution to plan research, research training, and curriculum development activities that address and inform priority national and regional environmental and occupational health policy issues. The ultimate goal of the FOA is to foster the planning for multidisciplinary Global Environmental and Occupational Health Hubs (GEOHealth Hubs), based in LMICs, that will lead collaborative research and training for focal environmental and occupational health issues in several core science areas, including fields such as epidemiology, biostatistics, genetics, environmental science, industrial hygiene, systems science, toxicology, behavioral science, and implementation science. Focal environmental and occupational health areas, as well as core science areas, for each consortium will be selected by the applicants, building upon preexisting strengths within the proposed consortium and addressing priority public health needs in the region. These may include up to three focal areas including but not limited to indoor and outdoor air quality, water quality, workplace safety, occupational health, agricultural health, and climate change. The FOA aims to enable LMIC researchers, in partnership with US researchers, to conduct a needs and opportunities assessment, plan for policy-relevant research and training in environmental and occupational health, and foster partnerships that could be sustained in an anticipated full GEOHealth Hub program. The NIH anticipates the opportunity to compete for full grants to realize the results of this planning, with awards in 2014. This program is not intended to support research that can be conducted primarily in and/or by United States or other high income country institutions only.
Award: The combined budget for each pair of applications is limited to $100,000 per year in total costs. This amount is to be divided between the budgets of the two applicant institutions as determined by the applicants, with at least half ($50,000) going to the LMIC institution.
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 | Teleconference/Webcast: Driven to Distraction: Food, Chemicals and Child Behavior
Wednesday February 8, 2011
noon - 1:00 p.m. Eastern / 11:00 a.m. - noon Central / 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. Pacific time
Sponsor: Healthy Food Action and American Nurses Association
Compelling science now suggests synthetic food dyes and caramel colorings often added to candy—as well as junk food and other kids' foods—can affect their learning and behavior and may increase cancer risk. This science forced the adoption of safer alternatives to food dyes in the UK; the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been petitioned to do the same. An FDA science advisory committee reviewed the new science in April 2011. Developmental brain toxins are also found as additives to other children's products, like toys and lunch boxes. Child advocates are pushing for policy reforms addressing these risks as well. Join speakers Karen Bowman, MN, RN, COHN-S; Michael Jacobson, PhD; Lawrence Rosen, MD; and David Wallinga, MD, for a discussion of the latest science and the policy reforms now being debated.
Price: free
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| Teleconference/Webcast: 2012 Webinar Series
Wednesday February 8, 2012
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Eastern time
Sponsor: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in collaboration with the US Environmental Protection Agency
Researchers at the Children's Centers continue to publish significant research results increasing awareness and making a difference in quality of life and our environmental impact awareness. This Webinar series is designed to share research progress and significant findings from the Childrens Centers. Two speakers will present on this webinar: Elaine Faustman, professor in the UW School of Public Health and Community Medicine and principal investigator for UW Children's Center, will present "Sharing Lessons from the Field: Understanding Factors that Define Variability in Pesticide Exposure and Response for Children." Then Asa Bradman, associate director of the Center for Environmental Research and Children's Health at UC Berkeley will present "California Initiative to Improve Environmental Quality in Early Care and Education Environments."
Price: free
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Contact: Richard Callan, 703-347-8051 or callan.richard@epa.gov
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| Teleconference/Webcast: Clean, Green and Healthy Tribal Schools
Wednesday February 8, 2012
3:30 p.m. Mountain time
Sponsor: US Environmental Protection Agency Region 8
The goal of the webinar series is to provide information and tools for tribal school personnel and EPA personnel to ensure that tribal schools are clean, green and healthy for themselves, school children and their community. Please register to attend. You may attend one or more presentations in the webinar series. The title of this session is "Waste Reduction, Recycling, Composting & Gardening in Tribal Schools", and the speakers will be Marie Zanowick of EPA and Diane Jourdan of the Oneida and Stockbridge Tribe. The webinar series is designed for tribal school administrators, risk managers, educators, health and safety coordinators, school health professionals, tribal environmental protection personnel, parents of school children, communities, and EPA personnel.
Price: free
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Contact: Matthew M. Langenfeld, 303-312-6284 or Langenfeld.matthew@epa.gov
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| Teleconference/Webcast: Webinar Series: Improving Children's Health through Federal Collaboration
Thursday February 9, 2012
2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Mountain time
Sponsor: US Environmental Protection Agency Region 8
Session title: Obesity Prevention. Over the past three decades, childhood obesity rates in America have tripled, and today, nearly one in three children in America are overweight or obese. The numbers are even higher in African American and Hispanic communities, where nearly 40% of the children are overweight or obese. If we don't solve this problem, one third of all children born in 2000 or later will suffer from diabetes at some point in their lives. This session will highlight Let's Move!, the First Lady's initiative dedicated to solving the challenge of childhood obesity within a generation as well as HRSA's Healthy Weight Collaborative and how states are working to impact childhood obesity through their Title V Block Grants.
Price: free, but preregistration is requested
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Contact: Alicia Aalto, aalto.alicia@epa.gov
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 | Other Event: Food for Thought
Thursday February 9, 2012
6:00 -8:00 p.m.
Portland, Oregon
at Lola's Room, below the Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W. Burnside
Sponsor: Oregon Public Health Association
Join OPHA for an evening of thought-provoking discussion, networking, food and drink. Learn more about why you should care about and engage in building a sustainable food system for the health of people, our community, and our environment. We will be screening a short segment of the Academy Award nominated documentary, "Food, Inc.", hosting a panel discussion of local experts in the field, and a Q&A session. The discussion will focus on the environmental and social justice component of the modern food system. This event is for ages 21 and over due to the location. This is presented in conjunction with the Northwest Environmental Health Conference happening the following day.
Price: $20, includes food and non-alcoholic beverages; a cash bar will also be available
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| Conference/Seminar: 4th Annual NW Environmental Health Conference
Friday February 10, 2012
8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Portland, Oregon
Sponsor: Oregon Environmental Council, Oregon Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Oregon Environmental Public Health Tracking Program, Health Care Without Harm, Josiah Hill Clinic, and Oregon Public Health Association
The conference hosts leading scientists, researchers and health professionals in the multidisciplinary field of environmental health to continue our robust dialogue on the interrelationship between the environment and health and healthcare practices. Previous conferences included presentations from numerous national and regional environmental health experts, researchers, educators and advocates. The 2012 conference will focus on environmental chemical contributors to obesity and diabetes and explore how such health disparities may arise, in part, because of different levels of exposures to chemicals of concern. Continuing education credits are available.
Price: $60 professional, $75 professional + continuing education, $30 students
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Contact: nwehc@oeconline.org
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| Teleconference/Webcast: Health Effects of Indoor Air Contaminants
Tuesday February 14, 2012
10:00 a.m. Pacific / 1:00 p.m. Eastern time
Sponsor: Collaborative on Health and the Environment
With some notable exceptions, most people spend far more time indoors than outdoors. Thus, the quality of indoor air is an important public health concern. Considerable effort has gone into measuring and monitoring the quality of outdoor air and its health effects, but we often know far less about indoor air contaminants and their health effects. This call will feature experts whose research focuses on indoor concerns internationally and in the US.
Price: free
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Contact: CHE, info@healthandenvironment.org
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| Teleconference/Webcast: Coal's Assault on Human Health
Wednesday February 15, 2012
9:00 a.m. Alaska / 10:00 a.m. Pacific / 1:00 p.m. Eastern time
Sponsor: Collaborative on Health and the Environment—Alaska
At every stage—from mining, transportation, storage, combustion, and disposal of post-combustion wastes—coal development threatens human and environmental health. Pollutants from coal damage all major organ systems in the human body and contribute to four of the five leading causes of death in the United States. Dr. Lockwood, professor of neurology at the University of Buffalo, is a member of Physicians for Social Responsiblity and is principal author of the PSR medical report "Coal's Assault on Human Health" which takes a new look at the devastating impacts of coal on the human body. Coal combustion releases mercury, particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, and dozens of other substances known to be hazardous to human health. This report looks at the cumulative harm inflicted by those pollutants on three major body organ systems: the respiratory system, the cardiovascular system, and the nervous system.
Price: free
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Contact: Alaska Community Action on Toxicss 907-222-7714 or heather@akaction.org
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| Teleconference/Webcast: Clean, Green and Healthy Tribal Schools
Wednesday February 15, 2012
3:30 p.m. Mountain time
Sponsor: US Environmental Protection Agency Region 8
The goal of the webinar series is to provide information and tools for tribal school personnel and EPA personnel to ensure that tribal schools are clean, green and healthy for themselves, school children and their community. Please register to attend. You may attend one or more presentations in the webinar series. The title of this session is "Indoor Air in Tribal Schools", and the speakers will be Mansel Nelson and Graylynn Jaysue Hudson of Northern Arizona University. The webinar series is designed for tribal school administrators, risk managers, educators, health and safety coordinators, school health professionals, tribal environmental protection personnel, parents of school children, communities, and EPA personnel.
Price: free
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Contact: Matthew M. Langenfeld, 303-312-6284 or Langenfeld.matthew@epa.gov
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| Teleconference/Webcast: Prevention in the Affordable Care Act: Highlighting Community Success Stories
Wednesday February 15, 2012
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Pacific time
Sponsor: Public Health Institute
This webinar is part of the Dialogue4Health series, in which a web-centered philosophy creates a unique space for professionals to build a foundation for understanding essential concepts in public health and work towards crafting policies, systems and environments to reduce chronic disease in America.
Price: free
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| Meeting: Public Meeting of the Chronic Hazard Advisory Panel on Phthalates and Phthalate Substitutes
Wednesday through Friday, February 15 - 17, 2012
9:00 a.m. each day
Bethesda, Maryland and virtual
at the Commission's offices at 4330 East West Highway
Sponsor: Consumer Product Safety Commission
The Commission appointed this CHAP on April 14, 2010, to study the effects on children's health of all phthalates and phthalate alternatives, as used in children's toys and child care articles. This meeting will also be available live via webcast. Registration is not necessary to view the webcast. There will not be any opportunity for public participation at this meeting.
Price: free
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Contact: Michael Babich, 301-504-7253 or mbabich@cpsc.gov
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| Teleconference/Webcast: Climate Change Vulnerability and Cumulative Impacts
Thursday February 16, 2012
11:00 a.m. Pacific / 2:00 p.m. Eastern time
Sponsor: Cumulative Impacts Working Group of CHE and SEHN
Paul English, PhD, MPH, and his team at the California Environmental Health Investigations Branch have developed an innovative method to screen for climate change population vulnerability. The screening method can be easily implemented in regions where climate vulnerability is a key concern. Climate vulnerability includes three factors: exposure, population sensitivity and adaptive capacity, and Dr. English will discuss findings from his study in two California communities that identified high-risk populations within these communities by assessing and quantifying climate change impacts based on population vulnerability and other cumulative stressors. The call will be moderated by Elise Miller, MEd, CHE Director. The call will last one hour and will be recorded for archival purposes.
Price: free
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Contact: CHE, info@healthandenvironment.org
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| Teleconference/Webcast: Clean, Green and Healthy Tribal Schools
Wednesday February 22, 2012
3:30 p.m. Mountain time
Sponsor: US Environmental Protection Agency Region 8
The goal of the webinar series is to provide information and tools for tribal school personnel and EPA personnel to ensure that tribal schools are clean, green and healthy for themselves, school children and their community. Please register to attend. You may attend one or more presentations in the webinar series. The title of this session is "Energy & Water Conservation in Tribal Schools", and the speaker will be Deenise Becenti of the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority. The webinar series is designed for tribal school administrators, risk managers, educators, health and safety coordinators, school health professionals, tribal environmental protection personnel, parents of school children, communities, and EPA personnel.
Price: free
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Contact: Matthew M. Langenfeld, 303-312-6284 or Langenfeld.matthew@epa.gov
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| Conference/Seminar: Children's Environmental Health Research Matters
Tuesday February 28, 2012
8:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Seattle, Washington
at the South Campus Center, University of Washington
Sponsor: The University of Washington Northwest Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU) and Center for Child Environmental Health Research (CHC)
After a welcome from Howard Frumkin, MD, MPH, DrPH, presentations will focus on the Washington State Environmental Biomonitoring Survey, phthalates exposure and infant reproductive development, and indoor air quality and Alaskan native children.
Price: free, but preregistration is requested
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Contact: alaing2@u.washington.edu
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| Conference/Seminar: Use & Misuse of Metal Chelation Therapy
Wednesday February 29, 2012
7:45 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Atlanta, Georgia and virtual
at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Roybal Campus Global Communications Center B19, Auditorium A, 1600 Clifton Road Northeast
Sponsor: The American College of Medical Toxicology in conjunction with the Medical Toxicology Foundation with support from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR).
This conference will be used to discuss the current use of chelation therapy in the United States, describe the underlying mechanism for the effectiveness of chelation therapy, and describe the risk/benefit issues associated with chelation therapy. Toxicologists, public health professionals, emergency medicine physicians, occupational and environmental physicians, family practitioners, pediatricians, internists and nurses are encouraged to attend. There will also be a live broadcast of this conference.
Price: $125 through February 15th, or $140 thereafter
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Contact: American College of Medical Toxicology, 623-533-6340
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| Request for Proposals: Environmental Justice Small Grants Program
Deadline: Wednesday February 29, 2012
11:59 p.m. Eastern time
Sponsor: US Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Justice Small Grants Program (EJSG) provides funding for eligible applicants for projects that address local environmental and public health issues within an affected community. The EJSG Program is designed to help communities understand and address exposure to multiple environmental harms and risks. Under this RFA, EPA will award grants that support activities designed to educate, empower and enable communities to understand environmental and public health issues and to identify ways to address these issues at the local level under the seven statutes listed in Section I.C. The long-term goals of the EJSG program are to help build the capacity of communities with environmental justice concerns and create self-sustaining, community-based partnerships that will continue to improve local environments in the future.
Award: up to $25,000 for one year
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Contact: Sheritta M. Woodruff, woodruff.sheritta@epa.gov
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 | Training/Workshop: Introduction to Managing Environmental Data with Microsoft Access 2010
Tuesday and Wednesday, March 6 - 7, 2012
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Issaquah, Washington
Sponsor: EOS Alliance
Participants will gain basic to intermediate skills in using Microsoft Access 2010 to build relational databases for managing and mining their environmental data. This comprehensive class uses extensive hands-on exercises for in-depth use of tables, queries, forms, reports, and macro objects in Access 2010. These Access database subjects use real-world environmental examples with actual field data.
Price: $595 or $545 for Native American Tribes; nonprofits; government agencies; students; and NEBC, NWAEP, and NAEP members, with a $50 discount before January 14th
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Contact: 425-270-3274 ext 103
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| Teleconference/Webcast: Webinar series: Improving Children's Health through Federal Collaboration
Thursday March 8, 2012
2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Mountain time
Sponsor: US Environmental Protection Agency Region 8
Session title: Affordable Care Act. This Session will include an overview of the new health reform law, the Affordable Care Act, and highlight those sections of the law that are especially helpful for children and families. The Affordable Care Act Increases access to necessary preventive services to help keep children and families healthy. This session will describe the new protections for health insurance consumers and provisions to lower costs and improve care.
Price: free, but preregistration is requested
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Contact: Alicia Aalto, aalto.alicia@epa.gov
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| Teleconference/Webcast: 2012 Webinar Series
Wednesday March 14, 2012
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Eastern time
Sponsor: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in collaboration with the US Environmental Protection Agency
Researchers at the Children's Centers continue to publish significant research results increasing awareness and making a difference in quality of life and our environmental impact awareness. This Webinar series is designed to share research progress and significant findings from the Childrens Centers. Two speakers will present on this webinar: Stanley J. Szefler of National Jewish Health will present "Biomarkers to Predict and Monitor Asthma Therapy" and Rachel Miller of Colombia University will present "Environmental Triggers of Asthma Exacerbations."
Price: free
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Contact: Richard Callan, 703-347-8051 or callan.richard@epa.gov
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| Teleconference/Webcast: A Movement for Prevention: Advocacy and Partnerships in YOUR Community
Wednesday March 14, 2012
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Pacific time
Sponsor: Public Health Institute
This webinar is part of the Dialogue4Health series, in which a web-centered philosophy creates a unique space for professionals to build a foundation for understanding essential concepts in public health and work towards crafting policies, systems and environments to reduce chronic disease in America.
Price: free
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| Call for Abstracts: 41st Annual Scientific and Educational Meeting
Deadline: Monday April 2, 2012
Sponsor: Canadian Association on Gerontology
The focal point of the meeting is the scientific study of aging and its application in education, policy and practice (academic and applied). The theme of the 2012 annual meeting is “Aging in a Changing World”. Individuals are encouraged to submit abstracts which address this theme, although all submissions will be given equal consideration. The meeting will be held October 18-20, 2012 in Vancouver, British Columbia at the Hyatt Regency Hotel.
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Contact: asem@cagacg.ca.
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| Training/Workshop: Introduction to Managing Environmental Data with Microsoft Access 2010
Tuesday and Wednesday, April 10 - 11, 2012
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Anchorage, Alaska
Sponsor: EOS Alliance
Participants will gain basic to intermediate skills in using Microsoft Access 2010 to build relational databases for managing and mining their environmental data. This comprehensive class uses extensive hands-on exercises for in-depth use of tables, queries, forms, reports, and macro objects in Access 2010. These Access database subjects use real-world environmental examples with actual field data.
Price: $595 or $545 for Native American Tribes; nonprofits; government agencies; students; and NEBC, NWAEP, and NAEP members, with a $50 discount before February 4th
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Contact: 425-270-3274 ext 103
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| Teleconference/Webcast: Webinar series: Improving Children's Health through Federal Collaboration
Thursday April 12, 2012
2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Mountain time
Sponsor: US Environmental Protection Agency Region 8
Session title: Communities Working Together for Better Health. This session will highlight projects where communities are working collaboratively with local, state and federal stakeholders to create healthier environments where children can live, learn and play. These community-based projects and programs focus on geographically, politically, demographically and/or socially defined areas. Learn about resources available for project assistance, funding, outreach, training, education, and capacity-building.
Price: free, but preregistration is requested
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Contact: Alicia Aalto, aalto.alicia@epa.gov
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| Training/Workshop: Individual Variability
Wednesday and Thursday, April 18 - 19, 2012
Washington, DC and virtual
at the National Academies Keck Center, 500 Fifth Street NW
Sponsor: The National Academies
This workshop will explore new and innovative approaches to characterizing individual variability arising from endogenous, biological factors and its impact on susceptibility to risks from environmental exposures. Discussions will also delve into how to bring new data collection and analytic approaches to bear and layer them with conventional data on variability. Topics will span a range of approaches, from molecular analyses to the use of human cells and animal models as experimental systems, and how these approaches can be used to better characterize individual variability linked to endogenous factors in toxicity, epidemiology, and genomewide-association studies. The workshop will also consider the implications of emerging approaches to policies designed to address susceptibility in public health and risk assessment. Workshop participants will address approaches for and challenges to describing the relationships among individual variability, disease susceptibility, and public health. This workshop is open to the public and can also be viewed via webcast.
Price: free
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Contact: see the Contact page
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| Request for Proposals: Climate Change and Health: Assessing and Modeling Population Vulnerability to Climate Change
Deadline: letters of intent are due by Tuesday April 24, 2012
Sponsor: US Department of Health and Human Services
This FOA encourages research applications to examine the differential risk factors of populations that lead to or are associated with increased vulnerability to exposures, diseases and other adverse health outcomes related to climate change. Applications may involve either applied research studies that address specific hypotheses about risk factors or population characteristics associated with increased vulnerability, or research projects to develop general models or methods for identifying and characterizing population vulnerability to climate change. The ultimate goal of this research program is to help inform climate change adaptation and public health interventions to reduce current and future vulnerability of various populations to the health effects of climate change.
Award: Direct costs are limited to $275,000 over an R21 2-year period, with no more than $200,000 in direct costs allowed in any single year.
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| Call for Abstracts: Environment and Public Health Aspects of Diabetes
Deadline: Friday May 4, 2012
Sponsor: Journal of Environment and Public Health
The prevalence of diabetes is rising rapidly and globally. The diabetes epidemic is now spreading to developing countries where rapid rises in diabetes prevalence rates are seen in both urban and rural areas. While diabetes has a large genetic component, the epidemic of diabetes is largely driven by environmental factors. These include physical inactivity, change in diet from traditional high-fiber diets to energy-dense, high-calorie, high-carbohydrate and high-fat diets. The combination of physical inactivity and dietary changes leads to obesity which is one of the major driving forces for the diabetes epidemic. However, there are newer environmental factors which are coming into play. These include the role of pollutants and psychosocial and other environmental factors. Diabetes has a huge public health impact particularly on developing countries. The epidemic of diabetes is slowly moving from a disease of old age to affect younger people; from being a disease of the rich and affluent to middle income, and now, to the low income group in developing countries; from being an urban phenomenon to one that affects the rural population. These changes have huge health economic implications for developing countries. This special issue is devoted to environmental and public health aspects of diabetes, and we invite articles related to these areas.
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| Teleconference/Webcast: Webinar series: Improving Children's Health through Federal Collaboration
Thursday May 10, 2012
2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Mountain time
Sponsor: US Environmental Protection Agency Region 8
Session title: Successful Asthma Management. May is Asthma Awareness Month! Asthma affects almost 25 million people of all ages and races. Despite this prevalence, public awareness of common asthma triggers and effective asthma management strategies remains limited. Join us to learn the latest in successful asthma management including identifying warning signs of an attack, avoiding triggers, asthma clinical guidelines and successful intervention strategies.
Price: free, but preregistration is requested
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Contact: Alicia Aalto, aalto.alicia@epa.gov
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| Conference/Seminar: 49th International Making Cities Livable Conference on True Urbanism: Planning Healthy Communities for All
Sunday through Thursday, May 20 - 24, 2012
Portland, Oregon
at the Governor Hotel
Sponsor: International Making Cities Livable
Environmental factors significantly contribute to obesity, chronic physical ill health, social isolation, violence and crime. The way we have built our cities has amplified these problems. This conference will examine the evidence and focus on ways we can reshape the built environment to increase physical and social health and well-being. The conference will bring together 350-400 delegates, elected officials, practitioners and scholars in planning, public health, urban design, landscape architecture, transportation planning, pediatrics, human development, social sciences, land use development and architecture from around the world.
Price: unknown
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Contact: see the Contact page
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| Teleconference/Webcast: Webinar series: Improving Children's Health through Federal Collaboration
Thursday June 14, 2012
2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Mountain time
Sponsor: US Environmental Protection Agency Region 8
Session title: Healthy Homes. This session will highlight how federal agencies are working in a coordinated fashion to address multiple housing-related hazards and childhood diseases. The presentation will also include tools and resources available for communities to create neighborhoods and outdoor spaces that promote public health and encourage healthy lifestyles for all ages.
Price: free, but preregistration is requested
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Contact: Alicia Aalto, aalto.alicia@epa.gov
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| Teleconference/Webcast: Webinar series: Improving Children's Health through Federal Collaboration
Thursday August 9, 2012
2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Mountain time
Sponsor: US Environmental Protection Agency Region 8
Session title: Children's Environmental Health Research. The Centers for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research ("Children's Centers") were established to explore ways to reduce children's health risks from environmental factors. The long-range goals of the centers include understanding how environmental factors affect children's health and promoting translation of basic research findings into intervention and prevention methods to prevent adverse health outcomes. This session will share latest research and discuss how the centers foster research collaborations among basic, clinical, and behavioral scientists with participation from local communities.
Price: free, but preregistration is requested
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Contact: Alicia Aalto, aalto.alicia@epa.gov
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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: 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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| 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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| Teleconference/Webcast: Webinar series: Improving Children's Health through Federal Collaboration
Thursday September 13, 2012
2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Mountain time
Sponsor: US Environmental Protection Agency Region 8
Session title: National Children's Study. This session will provide an update on The National Children's Study, the largest long-term study of children's health ever conducted in the United States. The study plans to follow 100,000 children from before birth to age 21 to learn how the environment influences their health, development, and quality of life. Environment is broadly defined to include factors such as air, water, diet, sound, family dynamics, community and cultural influences, and genetics on the growth, development, and health of children across the United States.
Price: free, but preregistration is requested
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Contact: Alicia Aalto, aalto.alicia@epa.gov
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| Conference/Seminar: 41st Annual Scientific and Educational Meeting: Aging in a Changing World
Thursday through Saturday, October 18 - 20, 2012
Vancouver, British Columbia Canada
Sponsor: Canadian Association on Gerontology
The CAG Annual Scientific and Educational Meeting is the primary multidisciplinary conference in Canada for those interested in individual and population aging. It features world-renowned keynote speakers from the health and social sciences, cutting-edge symposia, opportunities to present papers and posters, and a social program.
Price: see the Registration page
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| Request for Proposals: Asthma in Older Adults
Deadline: Sunday September 8, 2013
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
This FOA encourages Exploratory/Developmental Grant applications that propose to study the pathophysiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and/or management of asthma in older adults. Much of what is known about asthma in adults is based on studies in younger adult populations; however, the mechanisms underlying asthma in some older adults may differ, which may impact on diagnostic, treatment, and prevention strategies. This FOA is intended to stimulate research to address knowledge gaps and research opportunities in asthma in later life. A variety of study approaches are encouraged with this FOA including basic, translational, clinical, and epidemiological studies.
Award: variable
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Contact: GrantsInfo, 301-435-0714 or GrantsInfo@nih.gov
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| Request for Proposals: Translational Research to Help Older Adults Maintain their Health and Independence in the Community
Deadline: May 8, 2014
Sponsor: US National Institute on Aging and the Administration on Aging
The goal of this FOA is to support translational research involving collaborations between academic research centers and community-based organizations with expertise serving the elderly (such as city and state health departments, city/town leadership councils, and Area Agencies on Aging) that will enhance our understanding of practical tools, techniques, programs and policies that communities across the nation can use to more effectively respond to needs of their aging populations.
Award: variable by program
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| Request for Proposals: Behavioral and Social Genomics of Aging: Opportunities in the Health and Retirement Study
Deadline: Monday September 8, 2014
Sponsor: National Institute on Aging
The Health and Retirement Study is a longitudinal, nationally representative sample of the US population aged 50 years and older (plus spouses) with an oversample of African and Hispanic Americans and a total sample size of over 20,000. Using funds from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, the HRS is currently conducting genome-wide scans of DNA samples from approximately 20,000 participants, using the Illumina HumanOmni 2.5 Quad chip. It is anticipated that the genotype data for the first 13,000 subjects will be released to the public via dbGaP in the Fall of 2011, with data from the remaining participants to be released by the end of 2012. This FOA encourages applications taking advantage of the newly available genetic data to advance our understanding of how genetic, behavioral, and psychosocial factors affect the health and well-being of older Americans.
Award: variable
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| Request for Proposals: Maternal Nutrition and Pre-pregnancy Obesity: Effects on Mothers, Infants and Children
Deadline: Thursday January 8, 2015
Sponsor: National Institute of Nursing Research
This Funding Opportunity Announcement encourages R01 applications to improve health outcomes for women, infants and children, by stimulating interdisciplinary research focused on maternal nutrition and pre-pregnancy obesity. Maternal health significantly impacts not only the mother but also the intrauterine environment, and subsequently fetal development and the health of the newborn. One in five women is obese when she becomes pregnant. Maternal pre-pregnancy obesity is a contributing factor in the etiology of poor maternal outcomes such as gestational diabetes, pregnancy-induced hypertension, pre-eclampsia and eclampsia and venous thrombo-embolism. Furthermore, obese women have a higher rate of instrumental delivery and caesarean section, and longer postpartum hospital stays than non-obese women. In addition, the obstetric management of morbidly obese pregnant women (BMI >40 kg/m2) is particularly challenging, and these women are even more likely to develop the above complications during pregnancy. Maternal obesity contributes to development of a number of negative maternal health outcomes, more complicated deliveries, and greater use of health care services and resources. In addition to pre-pregnancy obesity, factors in the uterine environment, primarily maternal nutrition, can also impact infant outcomes, predisposing the developing fetus to obesity in childhood, adolescence or adult life. Environmental factors during intrauterine development or in early post-natal life can have life-long impact on gene expression and phenotype. Maternal diet and nutrient supply are principal environmental factors which can alter structure, function and metabolism of the developing embryo. Alterations of the maternal diet have been shown to produce modifications in the fetal epigenome. Identifying modifiable factors during pregnancy and the immediate post-partum period, and implementing health promotive strategies that achieve primal, primary and secondary prevention of obesity, reduction of risks for adverse events and improvement of health outcomes for mother, infants and children are the focus of this FOA.
Award: variable
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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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