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PARTNERSHIP EVENTS
CHE Partnership call: 25 Years of the Superfund Research Program: Highlights and Hope
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Healthy Environments Across Generations
On June 7-8, 2012 over a hundred and fifty participants gathered at the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) for the "Healthy Environments Across Generations" meeting which focused on the impacts that multiple, interacting environments can have on health (including the socioeconomic, chemical, food, built, natural, and psychosocial environments) as well as intergenerational and creative approaches to improve public and planetary health. CHE partnered with NYAM, AARP, the US EPA, The Intergenerational School, WE ACT for Environmental Justice, The Whole Child Center, and Gray is Green, along with over 60 co-sponsors, to put on this event. We invite all to view the conference E-book (at right). Keep up with the conversation started at the conference by following us on Twitter at #HEGen! and on Facebook Visit CHE's Healthy Aging and the Environment Initiative webpage WHAT'S NEW FROM THE CONFERENCE? January 2013: Don’t miss the first CHE e-book, Healthy Environments Across Generations, highlighting key issues regarding the influences of the chemical, food, built, psychosocial, and socioeconomic environments on health across the lifespan. Included are video interviews with experts in many disciplines, well as and recommendations for collaborative initiatives to help promote health, from the conference. In addition, check out the 4-minute video summary of the conference on the last page of the e-book. On July 18, 2012 Elise Miller, MEd, director of CHE and Ted Schettler, MD, MPH, science director of SEHN and CHE, spoke on Progessive Radio Network's program "Connect the Dots" about environmental health and the conference. Take a listen to the program! Steve Burdick sketched throughout the conference, capturing highlights, poignant moments and memorable quotes. Steve's sketchbook is now available for download (PDF). Take a look and see what took place through the lens of an artist!
Over one and a half days the conversations were built on questions starting with "what are the key issues?" and "what is working now and why?" to "how do we get to the future we want?" We ended with vibrant summaries of what we had learned and found inspirational, and with innovative suggestions about where we go from here. There was broad consensus for organizing other gatherings and sessions at existing annual conferences using the successful format we implemented at NYAM--namely, integrating discussions on multiple environments that influence health with intergenerational perspectives and artistic expression. Initial conversations were held about planning events in New York, Cleveland, Washington and San Francisco, which would include these themes. We are also working to develop an E-book, based on the extraordinary array of materials and expressions of the conference, and to prioritize next steps for a variety of potential collaborative initiatives. Additional Conference Information
“Content Framers” included: Donna Butts, Generations United; Gail Christopher PhD, the Kellogg Foundation; Sarita Daftary, East New York Farms; Nancy Henkin PhD, The Intergenerational Center Temple University; Richard Jackson MD MPH UCLA, School of Public Health; Natalie Jeremijenko PhD, NYU Environmental Health Clinic; Kim Knowlton PhD, NRDC; Philip Landrigan MD MSc, Mount Sinai Medical Center; Rick Moody PhD, AARP; Ken Olden PhD ScD, CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College; Frederica P. Perera, DrPH, Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health; John Rother JD, National Coalition on Health Care; Ted Schettler MD MPH, Science and Environmental Health Network; Peggy Shepard WEACT for Environmental Justice; David Shuffle, Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice; Erika Svendsen PhD, US Forest Service; Gordon Walker, MSc, Jefferson Area Board for Aging; David Wallinga MD MPA, Institute of Agriculture and Trade Policy; Peter Whitehouse MD PhD, The Intergenerational School. For more information: Erika Sanders, CHE Administrative Coordinator at info@healthandenvironment.org or 360-331-7904
The gathering was documented on film and paper by llustrator Stephen Burdick and videographer Paul Santomenna of Strategic Narratives. Many thanks to the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence at Case Western Reserve University for sponsoring three students who staffed the social media team under the guidance of Dr. Danny George, and the National Center for Creative Aging who sponsored our "Breath of Fresh Art" team of artists from Kairos Dance (Maria Genne), Moving Beauty (Anthony Hyatt) and Big Woods Theater (Cris Anderson) who inspired the proceeedings with guided movement, song and dance. Thanks also to musician Tina Lear for her special performance and event anthem. |
