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Sponsor: American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

The speaker will be Renee Dufault, MAT, of United Tribes Technical College, Bismarck, North Dakota.

Price: free

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Sponsor: EOS Alliance

Facilitation skills are used by scientists and resources managers to form productive teams, to plan programs and projects, and to implement controversial projects and programs. Facilitators help groups to communicate productively, honoring diverse points of view and respectfully creating options that provide the richest suite of benefits for all. The success or failure of programs and projects often depends on the support of a variety of interested parties -- staff, management, agencies, environmental groups, the general public and other stakeholders -- with diverse perspectives. Productive communication among project stakeholders is essential for successful implementation. In some cases, worthy projects have been blocked by disenchanted stakeholders who felt they had no voice or had been treated badly by public officials. Perhaps as bad is a missed opportunity because of the loss of meaningful participation that could have improved a project's design and implementation. This course is intended to be a practical approach to improving group meetings. It is oriented specifically to the needs of scientists and resource managers. After core facilitation skills are practiced, the class will be tailored to the students' development needs. Participants will be asked to complete a pre-workshop skills profile. Students are presented with a wide array of tools and opportunities to practice new facilitation skills.

Price: $795 or $695 for Native American tribes; government employees; nonprofits; students; and NAEP, NEBC, NWAEP members

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Contact: Northwest Environmental Training Center, 206-762-1976

Sponsor: Collaborative on Health and the Environment Fertility/Reproductive Health Working Group

Confirmed speakers will be Theo Colborn, PhD, president of The Endocrine Disruption Exchange (TEDX) and professor at the University of Florida, Gainesville; Shanna Swan, PhD, professor of obstetrics and gynecology, associate chair of research, obstetrics and gynecology; professor of environmental medicine, and professor of community and preventive medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry; and Ted Schettler, MD, MPH, science director of the Science and Environmental Health Network and the Collaborative on Health and the Environment.

Price: free

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Contact: Julia Varshavsky, julia@healthandenvironment.org

Sponsor: US Environmental Protection Agency

Topics include 1) The ABC's of Sustainable Reuse, 2) Cleaning up Properties While Using Green Practices, 3) Cutting-edge Analysis and Tools for Long-term Cleanups, 4) Initiatives Promoting Renewable Energy on Cleanup Sites, and 5) Ecological Revitalization at Contaminated Properties.

Price: $75, or $50 for nonprofit or government representatives

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Contact: Jennifer Britton, 215-895-2552 or cities@drexel.edu

Sponsor: University of Washington Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

The speaker will be Murray Mittleman, DrPH, associate professor of the Department of Epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health.

Price: free

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Sponsor: Association for Prevention Teaching and Research and other groups listed on the website

Conference organizers are currently accepting abstracts for poster presentations to be held during a lunch networking session at the workshop. They are looking for presentations on projects that illustrate collaborative efforts between researchers and community partners in capacity building and work towards sustainable health interventions. They want to provide an opportunity for people to share both the challenges they have faced and the strategies they have found successful. Abstract should specify how projects address the above goals and the academic-community partnership. Abstracts should be submitted by email to the address below.

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Contact: Dr. Ann DiGirolamo, 617-499-6608 or adigirolamo@challiance.org

Sponsor: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The EHS-Net Research opportunity seeks to improve the practice of environmental health service programs by establishing a network of environmental health specialists (EHS) who collaborate with epidemiologists and laboratorians to conduct research to identify and prevent environmental risk factors contributing to foodborne and/or waterborne illness.

Award: up to $175,000

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Contact: CDC Procurement and Grants Office, 770-488-2700

Sponsor: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Association of County & City Health Officials, Association of Schools of Public Health and others listed on the website

The 2010 Public Health Preparedness Summit, "Partners in Preparedness: Engaging a Community for a Successful Public Health Response," will strengthen and enhance the capabilities of public health professionals and other participants to plan and prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters and other public health emergencies.

Price: see the Registration page

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Contact: phprep@naccho.org

Sponsor: Learning Disabilities Association of America

This conference will include the latest research and dialogue on learning disabilities, including specific workshops on medical, mental health, teacher preparation, public policy, adults, assessment, research and more. A symposium on "Toxic Chemicals and Brain Development: Prevention and Policy" is scheduled from 11:00 to 4:30 on Wednesday, including panel presentations on the new biomonitoring study from the Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative and a panel on toxic chemical policy.

Price: unknown; an "early bird" rate is effective until Monday February 1st

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Sponsor: The Center for Environmental Health

Most grants will be for specific campaigns, projects, or activities, such as attendance at conference and trainings, strategic planning, producing outreach materials, or providing internship stipends. However, the Justice Fund will also consider applications for general operating support, emergency assistance, and for filling small gaps in organizations' budgets. Grants will not be made to government agencies or to support religious activities or lobbying. Grants will be made only to groups led by and serving low-income communities in the state of California in support of environmental justice efforts.

Award: The majority of Justice Fund grants will range in size from $250 - $2,500.

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Contact: Christine Cordero, 510-655-3900 x 307 or christine@ceh.org

Sponsor: Northwest Center for Public Health Practice

The design of the built environment, including land-use and transportation decisions, affects health in many ways, including its impacts on physical activity, air quality, motor-vehicle and pedestrian injuries, social capital, mental health and environmental justice. Health impact assessment is a new tool that can improve communication between public-health professionals and urban planners, transportation planners, and other decision makers so that health issues are more likely to be considered in decisions about community design.

Price: unknown

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Contact: Sarah Paliulis, paliulis@u.washington.edu

Sponsor: Columbia River Toxics Reduction Working Group

This watershed-based workshop will provide a forum to discuss strategies for reducing toxic contamination in the Columbia River Basin and involve local watershed councils, communities, agriculture, industry, tribal, federal and state governments, and nonprofit organizations. Please preregister by February 15th.

Price: unknown

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Contact: Jason Braaten, 503-326-3250 or braaten.jason@epa.gov

Sponsor: The National Academies

Recognizing the disparity in current knowledge between genes and environmental exposures, Dr. Christopher Wild defined the "exposome," representing all environmental exposures from conception onwards (including exposures from diet, lifestyle and endogenous sources) as a quantity of critical interest to disease etiology. Dr. Wild argued that if we expect to succeed in identifying the combined effects of genetic and environmental factors on chronic diseases, we must develop 21st-century tools to characterize exposure levels in human populations. This workshop will examine the concept of the exposome and its importance to the etiology of human diseases. In doing so, we will consider the roles that epidemiologists and laboratory scientists can play in identifying resources and technologies for elaborating the exposome in human populations.

Price: free and open to the public

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Sponsor: Association of Reproductive Health Professionals (ARHP), Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), and Society of Family Planning (SFP)

Abstracts submitted that demonstrate high quality research practices and relevancy to the meeting's learning outcomes will be selected for either oral or poster presentation at the meeting. All abstracts accepted for oral or poster presentation at Reproductive Health 2010 will be published in the August 2010 issue of Contraception, An International Reproductive Health Journal. The conference will be held September 22 - 25, 2010.

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Contact: Marlo Polonsky, SFP grants officer, 866-584-6758 ext. 302 or mpolonsky@societyfp.org

Sponsor: Teleosis Institute

Leadership In Green Health Care prepares health professionals to become leaders in the emerging discipline of Sustainable Medicine. Sustainable medicine recognizes the link between the environment, medicine and human health and seeks to provide better health care while protecting our limited environmental and medical resources. The Leadership in Green Health Care course reviews the most up-to-date theory and research behind sustainable medicine and introduces participants to the best practices for initiating green health care -- from greening their offices, to offering affordable and renewable medical treatments, and promoting community and environmental health. Participants collaborate online to exchange strategies and pioneer ideas for effecting change within their communities and medical practices. The online, interactive dialogue among like-minded professionals creates a supportive and inspiring learning environment. Continuing education credits are available for physicians and nurses.

Price: $945 for nonmembers, $695 for members of Practice Greenhealth, $350 for students in the health-care field

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Contact: see the Contact page

Sponsor: Spanish Association of Toxicology (AETOX) and EUROTOX in the name of the International Union of Toxicology (IUTOX)

The congress will encourage interaction between academia, industry, regulators and experts in human (clinical and epidemiology) and environmental toxicology. Chemical safety increasingly requires integrated approaches to achieve successful possibilities of the innovative applications and transfer of the results of R&D giving added values with safety to human health and the environment. This is open to all the fields of toxicology and chemical safety.

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Contact: María Cubí, 93.238.87.77 or iutox2010@pacifico-meetings.com

Sponsor: Alliance for Healthy Homes in partnership with NeighborWorks Training Institute

This class will help prepare organizations to become accredited trainers under EPA's new Renovation, Repair and Painting (RRP) rule. By April 2010, this rule will require virtually every contractor working in pre-1978 homes to complete an 8-hour course in lead safe work practices or face a Federal fine of up to $37,500 a day. The Train-the-Trainer course does not certify participants to be accredited trainers under the rule, but rather gives participants background on the requirements of EPA's rule and instruction on how to most effectively deliver the new lead safe work practices course for renovators.

Price: unknown

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Contact: NeighborWorks Training Institute

Sponsor: Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology; Department of Environmental Protection of Vietnam; Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology in Hanoi; Southeast Environmental Research Center, Florida International University

The goal of this conference is to bring environmental scientists from the developed and developing countries together to exchange experiences and to discuss existing environmental issues. During the conference, an interactive meeting is scheduled for environmental scientists and managers to engage one another and discuss issues and solutions to environmental problems. This conference is designed to initiate and to further strengthen ongoing collaborations between environmental scientists from all over the world. Public health is one of the conference topics.

Price: $430 for residents of developed nations, $60 for residents of developing nations, or $200 for students from developed countries

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Contact: Tham Hoang, hoangt@fiu.edu

Sponsor: University of Washington Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

The speaker will be Dr. PJE Quintana, associate professor at San Diego State University.

Price: free

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Sponsor: Oregon Environmental Council, Oregon Student Nurses Association, Oregon Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Multnomah County Environmental Health Services, Health Care Without Harm and others

This conference will host leading scientists, researchers and healthcare professionals in the field of environmental health and will focus on stimulating robust dialogue regarding the impact of the environment on health and healthcare practices. March 5th will cover current basic science, new approaches to patient care, facilities management and community practice, as well as policy issues surrounding environmental health. March 6th will be comprised of workshops providing hands-on training utilizing environmental health technology and toolkits for practitioners, educators, and advocates.

Price: March 5th: $50 or $25 for students; CNE credits and/or parking are available for additional fees
March 6th: Workshops are $25 or $15 for students

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Sponsor: New Jersey Environmental Health Association

This conference will offer informative and stimulating seminars, featuring expert speakers covering a wide range of environmental and public-health topics; an introduction to a multitude of new and existing technologies, products and services; and networking opportunities with local, state and national public health professionals.

Price: see the Registration Brochure

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Contact: contact email

Sponsor: Indoor Air Quality Association

The meeting program includes sessions sponsored by the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ), the Indoor Environmental Standards Organization (IESO), and the University of Tulsa. The president of ISIAQ, Dr. Richard Shaughnessy, and the IESO Consensus Body Chairman, Dr. Robert Brandys, will both be giving presentations, as well as dozens of leaders from private industry.

Price: see the brochure

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Contact: 301-231-8388, ext. 20

Sponsor: Society of Toxicology

The program includes several plenary and other special lectures, symposia, workshops, roundtable discussions, and platform and poster presentations. The meeting also offers continuing education courses ranging from basic to advanced levels. In addition, the Society presents annual awards to recognize outstanding achievements in toxicology.

Price: see the Registration page

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Contact: sothq@toxicology.org

Sponsor: The Bullitt Foundation, Kendeda Fund, Health and Environmental Funders Network, Advancing Green Chemistry, and Environmental Health Sciences

This is a special briefing for funders to explore green chemistry and its current and future contributions to the Pacific Northwest's economy. What would the Pacific Northwest economy look like if designed by Green Chemists? How would life in the Pacific Northwest be different if Green Chemistry were widely adopted?

Price: There is no cost to attend, though participants must cover their own travel and lodging.

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Contact: Advancing Green Chemistry, 434-220-3701 or registrar@advancinggreenchemistry.org

Sponsor: US Environmental Protection Agency

CARE is a community-based program that builds partnerships to help the public understand and reduce toxic risks from numerous sources close to home. Through the CARE program local organizations, including nonprofits, businesses, schools, tribes, agencies and local governments, create partnerships that identify environmental priorities and implement local solutions to reduce releases of toxic pollutants and minimize people's exposure to them. The program works to improve human health and local environment into the future. EPA will award CARE cooperative agreements at two levels: Level I awards range from $75,000 to $100,000 and will help establish community-based partnerships to assess toxics problems in their community and consider options for reducing environmental risks. Level II awards, ranging from $150,000 to $300,000 each, will support communities that have established broad-based partnerships, have identified the priority toxic risks in the community, and are prepared to measure results, implement risk-reduction activities and become self-sustaining.

Award: $75,000 to $300,000

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Contact: 877-CARE-909

Sponsor: Northwest Environmental Training Center

Risk assessments are now being performed at almost all sites, whether part of a Risk-Based Correction Action (RBCA) analysis, to determine remediation strategies, or for litigation support and prevention. This class is hands-on, covering each of the steps in a risk assessment. Emphasis will be placed on fate and transport modeling to estimate exposure point concentrations. RISC software will be used for classroom exercises, however the principles learned are can be applied to other risk-assessment software. Each participant will have their own computer workstation throughout the class.

Price: $945/$895

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Contact: NWETC, 206-762-1976

Sponsor: Collaborative on Health and the Environment

We will hear from Birnbaum on the priorities and challenges facing the NIEHS in the coming years as well as discuss other pressing environmental health concerns.

Price: free

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Contact: CHE, info@healthandenvironment.org

Sponsor: Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, HEB, The University of Texas System, Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living, The University of Texas School Public Health, and the Texas Medical Association

Speakers will be Kelly Brownell, PhD, director of the Yale University Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity; Lew Kuller, MD, DrPH, Distinguished University Professor of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health; and Kenneth Warner, PhD, dean of the University of Michigan School of Public Health

Price: free

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Contact: 512-482-6163 or 512-346-6163 or Emily.B.Hines@uth.tmc.edu

Sponsor: US Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development's National Center for Environmental Research and National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, the Office of Environmental Justice, and the Office of Children's Health Protection and Environmental Education

This is a science symposium on disproportionate environmental health impacts. The primary goal is to lay the foundation for developing analytical tools that federal, state and local governments can use to better quantify and characterize disproportionate environmental health impacts on minority and low-income populations that may result from their programs, policies and activities.

Price: unknown

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Contact: see the contact web page

Sponsor: EOS Alliance

Facilitation skills are used by scientists and resources managers to form productive teams, to plan programs and projects, and to implement controversial projects and programs. Facilitators help groups to communicate productively, honoring diverse points of view and respectfully creating options that provide the richest suite of benefits for all. The success or failure of programs and projects often depends on the support of a variety of interested parties -- staff, management, agencies, environmental groups, the general public and other stakeholders -- with diverse perspectives. Productive communication among project stakeholders is essential for successful implementation. In some cases, worthy projects have been blocked by disenchanted stakeholders who felt they had no voice or had been treated badly by public officials. Perhaps as bad is a missed opportunity because of the loss of meaningful participation that could have improved a project's design and implementation. This course is intended to be a practical approach to improving group meetings. It is oriented specifically to the needs of scientists and resource managers. After core facilitation skills are practiced, the class will be tailored to the students' development needs. Participants will be asked to complete a pre-workshop skills profile. Students are presented with a wide array of tools and opportunities to practice new facilitation skills.

Price: $695 or $595 for Native American tribes; government employees; nonprofits; students; and NAEP, NEBC, NWAEP members

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Contact: Northwest Environmental Training Center, 206-762-1976

Sponsor: USDA, Food Safety and Inspection Service; USDA, Food and Nutrition Service; USDA, Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service; NSF International;, US Food and Drug Administration; US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; NSF/WHO Collaborating Centre for Food Safety; Partnership for Food Safety Education

Foodborne illness is a preventable and underreported disease that presents a major challenge to both general and at-risk populations. Empowering consumers worldwide with knowledge and safer food-handling behaviors is one of the best lines of defense against pathogens causing these illnesses. The intended audience for this conference includes public-health educators, health-care providers, medical communicators, food-safety educators, cooperative-extension educators, sanitarians, consumer representatives, and health writers and journalists

Price: $295, $195 for nonprofit or government employees, $95 for students

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Contact: see the Contact Us web page

Sponsor: UK Public Health Association

Key Issues for discussion, debate and presentation will include 1) What the doctor ordered: social justice and power to the people? 2) The implications of the Marmot Report; 3) Gaining health through participation, democracy and citizenship; 4) Aging, longevity and inequalities; 5) Resource depletion and population health; 6) Creating healthy communities *#8211; housing, transport and green spaces; and 7) Health and well-being in a time of economic and ecological crises.

Price: £200.00 - £380.00

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Contact: 0191 241 4523 or conference@ukpha.org.uk

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

Sponsor: Association for Prevention Teaching and Research and other groups listed on the website

The workshop will focus on how academic and community partners can work together using research to foster sustainable health interventions and will include a panel discussion from an investigator and community partner team who have been working on these issues, and also representatives from policy and funding agencies.

Price: $50 APTR member, $95 non-APTR member or $15 community partner

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Contact: Dr. Ann DiGirolamo, 617-499-6608 or adigirolamo@challiance.org

Sponsor: Parks Victoria, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Australia's National Depression Initiative, Deakin University, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others listed on the website

HPHP 2010 will explore how nature significantly contributes to our wellbeing and broader societal benefits. It is expected to attract over 1000 delegates from Australia and around the world. Participants will come from many different sectors including urban planning, community development, physical and mental health, tourism, education, recreation, ecology and park management (urban and protected area). This diversity of perspectives will allow delegates to understand the benefits of nature through the eyes of many.

Price: unknown

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Sponsor: see the Community Partners page

A topic area devoted to environmental toxins includes this description: "What is the relationship between environmental toxins and disabilities? In this topic area, we explore this question by looking at the factors and conditions that give rise to disabilities as a result of exposure to heavy metals, including depleted uranium, and chemicals, which are more pervasive today than in any time in history. Current research suggests that the effect of these toxins is related to rising occurrences of disabilities including cognitive learning impairments and other disabilities."

Price: see the Registration page

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Contact: 808-956-7539 or cccrocke@hawaii.edu

Sponsor: New Jersey Interagency Task Force on the Prevention of Lead Poisoning and the Governor's Council on the Prevention of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities

The goals of the conference are to update participants about the progress being made in the fight against lead poisoning in New Jersey and to introduce participants to other environmental health hazards found in homes, schools and workplaces. These hazards include radon, heavy metals, moisture, mold, poor ventilation, pest control, fungal allergens and others. Advance registration is required. Continuing education credits are available.

Price: $50

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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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Sponsor: The Social Capital Foundation

This type of conference brings together scientists, policymakers, social workers and the widest possible public. The emphasis will be put on social capital in practice in terms of actual or potential applications of social capital research. The objective is to make progress on the understanding of these issues by shedding light on some current societal and economic developments, and to draft innovative, practical responses.

Price: €209 through August 31, 2009

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Contact: see the contact page

Sponsor: Health Effects Institute

This conference will explore the health effects of air pollution, with sessions on new technologies and fuels, accountability research, multipollutant science and policy, critical issues in air pollution and children's respiratory health and more.

Price: see the website

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Contact: Robert Shavers, 617-488-2308 or rshavers@healtheffects.org

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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Sponsor: The Lead and Environmental Hazards Association and The National Association of Lead and Healthy Homes Grantees

The joint conference includes program tracks and technical assistance workshops dealing with lead hazard control, lead-poisoning prevention and Healthy Home program issues. Program tracks, technical assistance workshops and consultation roundtables are offered from Tuesday afternoon through Thursday afternoon to provide in-depth education and discussion. Sessions and workshops are organized under the two conferences listed on the website. Attendees are encouraged to participate in any session.

Price: $270 with discounts for more than one attendee from the same organization and Early Bird registration until December 31, 2009

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Contact: Steve Weil, 301-924-0804 or the contact web page

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

Sponsor: Congress for the New Urbanism

The conference theme is "New Urbanism: Rx for Healthy Places." Is New Urbanism the prescription for healthier communities? Increasing scientific evidence suggests that community design – land use, design character, transportation systems, sustainability and density – can promote physical activity and lifelong communities; lower the risk of traffic injuries, obesity, heart disease and hypertension; improve air quality, affordability, social equity, connectivity, mental health and long-term value; increase social connection, sense of community and healthy food access; and reduce crime, violence and contributions to climate change. Organized with assistance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the CNU 18 will present new research and innovative techniques for assessing the health impact of land-use, transportation-planning, and community-design decisions – from fine grained to mega-regional scales. Share the opportunities and challenges of designing and retrofitting communities that make it easier for people to live healthy lives.

Price: unknown

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Contact: congress@cnu.org

Sponsor: International Federation of Environmental Health (IFEH) in collaboration with the Government of Malawi and the University of Malawi

The conference theme is "Environmental Health – Key to a Better Life for All", and the vision of this congress is the improvement of the standards of environmental health in Africa. Objectives are to 1) raise the profile of environmental health in Africa, 2) share best practices of environmental health services delivery in Africa, 3) enhance inter-country collaboration in environmental health practice, 4) address the training needs of environmental health, 4) promote the environmental health needs of children in Africa and 5) promote environmental health research.

Price: see the Registration page

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Contact: 265 187 7592 or washted@poly.ac.mw

Sponsor: National Environmental Health Association

Information about the conference will be posted on the website.

Price: see the website

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Contact: NEHA, 303-691-9490 or staff@neha.org

Sponsor: Canadian Public Health Association

The conference theme is "Public Health in Canada: Shaping the Future Together." Public health practitioners from across the country and around the world will meet to celebrate a century of achievements and to shape the future of public health. Conference key priority areas include 1) environmental health and built environments; 2) mental health and mental illness; 3) universal policies, health equity and the social determinants of health; 4) knowledge exchange and risk communications; and 5) health through the lifecourse, among others.

Price: see the Registration page

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Contact: conference@cpha.ca

Sponsor: Elsevier and the editors of the journal Environmental Pollution

The conference theme is "Overcoming Obstacles to Sustainability and Quality of Life." This new conference will focus on the latest information about urban air pollution problems and what measures can be taken to overcome obstacles to sustainability and life quality. The role of urban vegetation in storm water retention, air pollution and temperature reduction, green roofs, resurfacing buildings, reducing albedo, reducing asthma and other advances will be presented.

Price: unknown

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Contact: see the Further information page

Sponsor: International Breast Cancer and Nutrition Group

The goal of this symposium is to bring together global public health actors and advocates with researchers on breast cancer prevention and nutrition to provide a platform for discussion among scientists, clinicians and other professionals in the biology, epidemiology, medicine, nutrition, communication, education and public-policy fields. The symposium will discuss approaches to breast cancer prevention that focus on nutrition, communication and public policy. This initiative recognizes that different countries have unique perspectives which would benefit a sustained international effort to prevent breast cancer, and that the education of trainees in cross-disciplinary and international collaboration is an essential component in addressing global public health-related issues. The four topics of the symposium are 1) Communication and Breast Cancer Prevention; 2) Public Policy and Breast Cancer; 3) Breast Cancer, Population and Nutrition; and 4) Nutrition Research and Breast Cancer.

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Contact: see the Contact page

Sponsor: Spanish Association of Toxicology (AETOX) and EUROTOX in the name of the International Union of Toxicology (IUTOX)

The congress will encourage interaction between academia, industry, regulators and experts in human (clinical and epidemiology) and environmental toxicology. Chemical safety increasingly requires integrated approaches to achieve successful possibilities of the innovative applications and transfer of the results of R&D giving added values with safety to human health and the environment. This is open to all the fields of toxicology and chemical safety.

Price: see the Registration page

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Contact: María Cubí, 93.238.87.77 or iutox2010@pacifico-meetings.com

Sponsor: Nevada Environmental Health Association

Information about the conference will be posted on the website.

Price: unknown

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Sponsor: Florida Environmental Health Association

Information will be posted on the website.

Price: unknown

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Contact: Bridget Anderson, 904-384-0838 or execdir@feha.org

Sponsor: King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi with other Greater Mekong Subregion members

The three research themes of the conference – Environment and Natural Resources, Energy and Materials, Policy and Human Development – accommodate sharing space for scientists and technologists alike in shaping solutions to improve a better standard of living for people in the region.

Price: see the Registration page

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Contact: GMSTEC Secretariat, 662 470 8815 or gmstec2010@kmutt.ac.th

Sponsor: Sociey for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco in partnership with the UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies

The theme of the conference will be "Translating Science to Policy." Presentations will include preclinical and basic science, clinical studies, public health and epidemiology and policy research.

Price: see the Registration page

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Contact: SRNT 12th Annual Meeting Event Team, 0845 303 3334 or events@purevisionevents.com

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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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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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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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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Sponsor: US Environmental Protection Agency

PM2.5 is one of the major pollutants of concern as it has been linked to a range of serious respiratory and cardiovascular health problems. One large gap in the understanding of PM2.5 is the sources of organic PM2.5 including those leading to secondary organic aerosol (SOA). Current observations of organic PM are significantly underestimated by even comprehensive air quality models. In 2007, the STAR grant program supported a number of research projects in this area. Many of these projects are improving our understanding of organic particles and their sources and transformation processes in the atmosphere as well as improving models that simulate organic particle concentration. This meeting will include presentations and discussions of the latest results from these STAR grantees and EPA scientists.

Price: free

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Contact: Sherri Hunt, 202-343-9644 or hunt.sherri@epa.gov

Sponsor: US Environmental Protection Agency

Previously, there has been a lack of published studies investigating the associations of mortality and morbidity with coarse thoracic particulate matter (CPM) (PM10-2.5) and addressing the effects of different components or sources of CPM particles. The composition and toxicity of CPM likely vary significantly across locations with large differences between urban and rural regions because of a variety of different sources (e.g., pollen, endotoxin, road dust, agriculture, mining) and difficulties in estimating risks and exposure estimates. In 2007, the National Center for Environmental Research awarded five grants for research studies to improve understanding of the composition, sources, and health effects of urban and rural coarse particulate matter (CPM), which includes particles in the size range from 2.5 to 10 micrometer in diameter. This meeting will include presentations and discussions of the latest results from these STAR grantees and EPA scientists.

Price: free

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Contact: Sherri Hunt, 202-343-9644 or hunt.sherri@epa.gov

Sponsor: US Environmental Protection Agency

This meeting will provide an overview and discussion of projects recently funded in response to an RFA to link climate change and allergic airway disease. The goal of this work is to increase understanding of the impacts of global climate change on incidence, prevalence and geographic distribution of allergic airway disease in the U.S by considering links between climate and responses by plants and molds, and the production, dispersion and potency of allergens, as well as the associations with human health.

Price: free

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Contact: Sherri Hunt, 202-343-9644 or hunt.sherri@epa.gov

Sponsor: Association of Reproductive Health Professionals (ARHP), Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), and Society of Family Planning (SFP)

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Contact: Marlo Polonsky, SFP grants officer, 866-584-6758 ext. 302 or mpolonsky@societyfp.org

Sponsor: City of Charleston and the International Making Cities Livable Council

Children are profoundly affected by the environment in which they live. The opportunity to safely walk to school, play outdoors in a park or live in a healthy environment affects their well being and future development. The physical layout of our communities can promote or restrict active living and healthy development. This conference offers an opportunity to get involved in creating child-friendly communities. Towns and cities play a critical role as they focus on building child-friendly green spaces, community places, safe routes, and urban design. An exhibit on Successful Solutions for Healthy and Child-friendly Communities will also be featured.

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Contact: Making Cities Livable at the Contact Us page

Sponsor: International Breast Cancer and Nutrition Group

The goal of this symposium is to bring together global public health actors and advocates with researchers on breast cancer prevention and nutrition to provide a platform for discussion among scientists, clinicians and other professionals in the biology, epidemiology, medicine, nutrition, communication, education and public-policy fields. The symposium will discuss approaches to breast cancer prevention that focus on nutrition, communication and public policy. This initiative recognizes that different countries have unique perspectives which would benefit a sustained international effort to prevent breast cancer, and that the education of trainees in cross-disciplinary and international collaboration is an essential component in addressing global public health-related issues.

Price: $150 ($75 for students and breast cancer advocates) until June 30th

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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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