Healthy Environments Across Generations

Healthy Environments Across Generations
Addressing the environmental health aspects of how we live, eat, work, play, and socialize throughout life, and how we can transform our environments to
promote health and prevent disease.
June 7 – 8, 2012
New York Academy of Medicine
New York City, NY
Sponsored by more than 40 leading organizations.
Register now: Online at the New York Academy of Medicine website
Registration fee (includes continental breakfasts and lunches)
Regular: $125
Youth (under 25) / Student: $35
Retiree/Restricted Income: $35
After May 11 Fees go to $150/$50
Note: Please contact info@healthandenvironment.org or 360-331-7904 for scholarship information if the registration fee for the conference presents a barrier to your attendance.
Please join us for a participatory conference that will bring together leaders and innovators from multiple sectors to:
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Catalyze innovative approaches towards a systems-based approach to health across the lifespan;
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Identify key intervention points and crosscutting environmental solutions to help reverse rising disease trajectories;
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Develop intergenerational programmatic and policy recommendations/models that reflect an integrated approach to wellness; and
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Create an ongoing network for collaboration to build healthier communities for all.
This conference is not an end unto itself, but a stepping stone for building a health-focused, multi-generational movement. We invite you to bring your energy and ideas to New York to help create our collective future.
Relevant to professionals and others working in or interested in the areas of health, food, nutrition, built environment, natural resources, environmental and economic justice, aging, or anyone interested in promoting health and preventing disease at all life stages.
“Content Framers” include: Donna Butts, Generations United; Gail Christopher PhD, the Kellogg Foundation; Richard Jackson MD MPH UCLA School of Public Health; Kim Knowlton PhD NRDC; Philip Landrigan MD MSc, Mount Sinai Medical Center; Rick Moody PhD AARP; Peggy Shepard WEACT for Environmental Justice; David Wallinga MD MPH, Institute of Agriculture and Trade Policy; Peter Whitehouse MD PhD, The Intergenerational School, and many more.
For more information: Erika Sanders, CHE Administrative Coordinator at info@healthandenvironment.org or 360-331-7904
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