Climate Change & Public Health Webinars October 4 & 18, 2011

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Public Health Effects of Climate Change USEPA Region 2 Hosted Webinar Series

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Description: A two-part webinar series addressing human health effects of climate change in the northeast. Both webinars will have two speakers for about 25 minutes each, followed by time for Q&A. Register for each webinar separately.

Target audience: EPA staff, other federal agencies, state and local governments, public health professionals, academia, and NGOs.

Webinar 1: Tuesday. October 4, 2011 at 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST

Perry Sheffield, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Deputy Director Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit for EPA Region 2
Public Health Impacts of Climate Change
Regional Health Vulnerabilities to Heat, Air Pollution and Pollen

George Luber, Ph.D.
Associate Director for Climate Change
Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects
National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Climate Change Adaptation in the Public Health Sector: An Overview of CDC”s Climate-Ready States and Cities Initiative and the Building Resilience Against Climate Effects (BRACE) Framework

Register at https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/654545834

Webinar 2: Tuesday. October 18, 2011 at 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST

Janet L. Gamble, Ph.D.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development
National Center for Environmental Assessment, Global Change Research Program
Assessing the Vulnerability of Older Americans to Climate Change: The State of the Science and Opportunities for Research.

Nathan Graber, M.D.
Climate Change and Public Health Project
Environmental and Occupational Disease Epidemiology
Bureau of Environmental Disease Prevention
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Climate Change Adaptation: Addressing Heat-Related Morbidity and Mortality among Seniors in New York City