Greetings Environmental Justice Stakeholders:

FYI:    Iowa Regional Meeting, IOM Project:   Roundtable on
Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine


Iowa Regional Meeting
IOM Project:   Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research,
and Medicine
Event Date:   November 29, 2004 - November 30, 2004
http://www.iom.edu/eventasp?id=21316


Individuals and communities today face many health problems that can be
associated with our environment, including waste, unhealthy buildings,
suburban sprawl, air pollution, water pollution, and environmentally
related stress. In 1998, the Institute of Medicine created the
Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine as a
venue for interested parties from the academic, industrial, consumer,
and federal research perspectives to meet and discuss sensitive and
difficult issues of mutual interest in a neutral setting.  The purpose
is to foster discussion among people in different sectors and
institutions that will illuminate issues, not resolve them.

The Roundtable has begun to sponsor regional workshops to understand the
complex issues in various regions in the United States. Iowa, with its
expanse of rural land area, growing agribusiness, aging population, and
increasing immigrant population, provides an opportunity to explore
environmental health in a region of the country that is not as densely
populated. Agribusiness will continue to shape this landscape as the
country progresses from family operations to large-scale corporate
farms. The shifting agricultural practices will have impacts on
environmental health. Other topics of potential interest are urban
sprawl into rural regions, the changing built environment, and the
intersection of the social environment and health.

This workshop is an opportunity for interested parties to discuss these
local concerns in the broader environmental health and to stimulate
dialog about these issues among local business leaders, architects,
urban planners, engineers, public health scientists, environmental
scientists, health care providers, social scientists, clergy, educators,
and the general public.

This event is free and open to all interested parties, but all
participants are asked to pre-register.

Agenda:  Iowa Regional Meeting


Rebuilding the Unity of Health and the Environment in Rural America

Hosted by
The Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences,
Research, and Medicine
The University of Iowa's College of Public Health
The University of Iowa's Environmental Health Sciences Research Center

November 29-30, 2004

Iowa City, IA

Draft Agenda of Invited Speakers

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2004

8:30 a.m.       Welcome

The Honorable Paul G. Rogers (confirmed), Chair, Roundtable on
Environmental Health Sciences, Research, & Medicine, Partner, Hogan &
Hartson

8:35 a.m.  Charge to Speakers and Participants

James Merchant, MD (confirmed), Dean School of Public Health, University
of Iowa

 8:45 a.m.  What is Environmental Health?

 TBA

  9:10 a.m.   Environmental Health in Rural America

Peter Thorne, Ph.D. (confirmed), Director, Environmental Health Sciences
Research Center, University of Iowa

                                                            Special
Address

9:35 a.m.  The Farm Bill and Environmental Health

The Honorable Tom Harkin (invited), U.S. Senator

10:05 a.m.   Break

The Social Environment in Rural America

Moderator:  Terry Meek (confirmed)

10:20 a.m. Future of Family Farms

Neil Harl (confirmed), Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor in
Agriculture
Iowa State University

10:50 a.m.   From Young to Old, Immigrants to Long Time Residents: How
Demographics Are Shaping Rural America

Sandra Charvat Burke (confirmed), Research Scientist, Community Vitality
Center, Iowa State University

11:10 a.m.   Diminishing Vitality of Rural Communities: Opportunity for
Change

Chuck Hassebrook (confirmed), Executive Director, Center for Rural
Affairs

11:30 a.m.   General Discussion

12:00 p.m.    Lunch (provided)

1:00 p.m.      Latino Communities: Language, Culture, and Health

John-Paul Chaisson-Cardenas (confirmed), Administrator, Iowa Division of
Latino Affairs

1:30 p.m.   Rural Infrastructure: Environmental Health and Beyond

Mary Wakefield (confirmed), Director, Center for Rural Health,
University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences

2:00 p.m.   Rural Mental Health: From Domestic Violence to Suicide

CeCe Arnold  (confirmed), Mental Health Director, Ligutti Rural
Community Support Program, National Catholic Rural Life Conference

2:30 p.m.  General Discussion

3:00 p.m.    Networking

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2004

8:30 a.m.                       Welcome Back

Lynn Goldman, M.D., MPH, Vice-Chair, Roundtable on Environmental Health
Sciences, Research, and Medicine, Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health

The Role of the Natural Environment

Moderator:  David Osterberg (Confirmed)

8:50 a.m.  Farming Practices: From Soil Erosion to Pesticides

Mark Ritchie (confirmed), President, Institute of Agricultural and Trade
Policy

9:20 a.m.   Water and Air Quality: Challenges for Environmental Health

Jerald Schnoor (confirmed), Allen S. Henry Chair of Engineering,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Iowa

9:50 a.m.   Ecological Footprint of Iowa Row Crop Agriculture

 Ricardo Salvador (confirmed), Professor, Iowa State University

10:20 a.m.   Break

10:40 a.m.     Energy Technology: Evolving Technologies for Improving
Health

Erroll Davis (confirmed), Chairman and CEO, Alliant Energy

11:10 a.m.  Renewable Electricity: America's New Cash Crop

Michael Noble (confirmed), Executive Director, Minnesotans for Energy
Efficient Economy

11:30 a.m. Opportunities for Communities: Nebraska Environmental
Partnerships

Jackie Stumpff (confirmed), Coordinator, Nebraska Environmental
Partnerships Program, Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality

11:50 a.m.  General Discussion

12:20 p.m.  Lunch

The Built Environment and Health

Moderator:  Robert Mulqueen (Confirmed)

1:20 p.m.  Urban Encroachment into Rural Areas

Bernard Goldstein (confirmed), Dean, School of Public Health, University
of Pittsburgh

1:50 p.m.   From Abandoned Buildings to Occupied Housing; What are the
Environmental Health Issues?

Ken Sharp (confirmed), Executive Officer, Office of Local Board of
Health Assistance, Iowa Department of Public Health

2:10 p.m.    Opportunities for Rural Health:  Bike Trails, Exercise, and
the Built Environment

John Lowe (confirmed), Professor and Head, Department of Community and
Behavioral Health, University of Iowa College of Public Health

2:40 p.m.  Investigation of Environmental Exposures and Chronic Disease
in Rural Communities: The Agricultural Health Study

Jane Hoppin (confirmed), Environmental Epidemiologist, National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of
Health

3:10 p.m.    General Discussion

3:40 p.m.   Summation

James Merchant

4:00 p.m.   Adjourn

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