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2006 Regional Children's Environmental Health Summit:
"Children’s Health and Their Environments: Making The Connection"

Below are the presentations currently available from the 2005 Children's Environmental Health Summit.

Note: all of the documents below are Adobe PDF documents
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Keynote Addresses

The Need to Examine the Effects of Environmental Influences on the Health and Development of Children (6 MB)
Edward B. Clark, M.D., Wilma T. Gibson Presidential Professor, Chairman of Pediatrics, University of Utah, and, Medical Director, Primary Children Medical Center

Designing Healthy Communities, Raising Healthier Kids (3 MB)
Georges C. Benjamin, MD, FACP, Executive Director, American Public Health Association

What Can We Do to Protect Children from Environmental Contaminants?
Amy Kyle, PhD, MPH, Environmental Health Sciences Division, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley

Recent Developments in Children’s Environmental Health Panel

The Effects of Indoor and Outdoor Air Pollution on Fetal Growth and Early Child Development
Virginia Rauh, ScD, Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health

Health Outcomes and Measures of the Environment Study: Neurobehavioral Effects of Prevalent Toxicants in Children
Bruce P. Lanphear, MD, MPH, Director, Cincinnati Children’s Environmental Health Center

Effects of Pesticide Exposure on Learning and Development
Patricia Moulton, Ph.D. and Thomas Petros, Ph.D., University of North Dakota

Healthy Communities for Children Panel

The Relationship Between Housing and Children's Health
Rebecca Morley, Executive Director, National Center for Healthy Housing

Creating Sustainable Healthy Housing Opportunities for Underserved Children
Wendy Hawthorne, Northeast Denver Housing

Environmental Justice Challenges for Children’s Environmental Health Decision Making
Charles Lee, Associate Director for Policy and Interagency Liaison Office of Environmental Justice, EPA

Presentation: Integrating Environmental Health into Health Care Practice
Mark Anderson, MD, Director, Rocky Mountain Region Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit

Healthy Schools Environments Panel

Healthy School Environments Assessment Tool
Bob Axelrad, Senior Policy Advisor, Indoor Environments Division, US Environmental Protection Agency

Colorado Connections for Healthy Schools
Lisa K. Perry, M.Ed,Colorado Department of Education Prevention Initiatives

Protecting Children from Ultraviolet Radiation
Robert Dellavalle, MD, PhD, MSPH, Associate Professor of Dermatology, Chief of Dermatology Service, Denver, VA Medical Center

Understanding Environmental Factors and Immune System Susceptibilities in Autism Risk
Isaac Pessah, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention at the University of California at Davis

Protecting Children’s Health: Hurricanes, Floods and Other Disasters
Gregory M. Bogdan, PhD, Research Director & Medical Toxicology Coordinator, Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center

Taking Action to Protect Children from Environmental Contaminants Panel

Successful Partnerships for Hazardous School Laboratory Chemical Cleanups
Matthew Langenfeld, PBT Coordinator, US EPA, Region 8

Protecting Children from Drinking Water Contaminants
Benjamin Gitterman, MD, Co-Director, Mid-Atlantic Center for Children's Health and the Environment

Protecting Children’s Health at Summer Camps
Therese Pilonetti, REHS, CFSP, Program Manager, Consumer Protection Division, CDPHE

Can We Protect Children from Endocrine Disruptors?
Suzanne Wuerthele, PhD, Regional Toxicologist, US EPA, Region 8

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