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Environmental Health Science 101: The
Science You Need to be Effective.
On
September 7, 2004, the UC
Superfund Basic Research Program (SBRP)
Outreach Core offered a workshop for
environmental activists and other lay
people seeking scientific information on
exposure, remediation and clean up of
contaminated sites. Four SBRP
scientists presented their research on
the health effects of toxic exposure and
new methods of prevention. The
accessible, understandable program
included small group sessions with each
of the scientists for more in-depth
discussion of advocates' specific areas
of interest. Click to view
presentations:
Obesity Research
Collaboration Workshop
This
interdisciplinary program held August 6,
2004 was attended by over 120 University
of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children's
Hospital researchers and
industry representatives. Keynote
speaker Dr. Barbara Alving (right), then
Acting Director of the National Heart,
Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), gave
an overview of the National Institutes
of Health's obesity research
priorities. In addition, 23 current or
proposed obesity research projects were
shared by UC and Children's scientists,
in the broad categories of causes &
patterns, form & measurement, prevention
& control, and public health burden.
The day concluded with a panel-audience
discussion of ways to encourage and
increase collaboration on
obesity-related research projects. The
workshop was sponsored by the UC Dept.
of Environmental Health with the support
of the Dean's Discovery Fund.
[Workshop agenda]
[Research
summaries]
"Reconnecting
Health and Land Use Planning." In
January, March and May 2004, the EPC
held a series of working sessions with
urban
planners, economists, environmentalists,
city, county, state and federal
officials, historians, policy analysts,
and health professionals from the
Greater Cincinnati region to develop
policy recommendations and strategies
that address the recognized health
impacts of urban sprawl. The sessions
tackled three major areas: (1) Public
Education on Health Impacts of Sprawl
(Leader: Julie Sparks - Northern
Kentucky Health Dept.); (2) Economics of
Health Impacts of Sprawl (Leader: Haynes
Goddard – University of Cincinnati
Economics Department); and (3)
Regionalism (Leader: Liz Blume -Xavier
University Community Building
Institute).
Click here for
Findings and
Recommendations,
organized into sections on asthma,
obesity, and mental health.
Partners on this
project were the
Edward B.
Brueggeman Center for Dialogue
of
Xavier University and the Sustainable
Future Program of Northern Kentucky
University. Funding was provided by the
Dean's Discovery Fund of the UC College
of Medicine.
Sprawl: The
Impact on Vulnerable Populations
The EPC planned and
implemented this day-long workshop, held
July 8, 2003 in Kettering Laboratory for
over 100health professionals, attorneys,
planners, research scientists,
academicians, public officials and
interested citizens. Featured were
presentations by national speakers Dr.
Samuel Wilson (below), Deputy
 Director
of the
National Institute
of Environmental Health Sciences,
which underwrote the program; Dr. Howard
Frumkin, Professor and Chair of The
Department of Environmental and
Occupational Health, Rollins School of
Public Health, Emory University; and Ms.
Kathy Sykes, Senior Advisor of the Aging
Initiative, US EPA. Area experts in
pediatrics, geriatric medicine, urban
and health planning, architecture,
economics, and law also led workshop
sessions. The event was co-sponsored by
the UC Department of Environmental
Health’s
Center for
Environmental Genetics
and
Molecular
Epidemiology in Children’s Environmental
Health Training Program.
Download .pdf
files:
State and Local Environmental and Health
Agencies: Surviving in the Post 9/11
World
The
EPC co-sponsored this June 9, 2003
workshop held in the Kingsgate
Conference Center on the UC Medical
Center campus. Over 30 representatives
of Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana agencies
attended to learn more from the US EPA’s
National Homeland Security Research
Center, the UC Dept. of Environmental
Health’s Center for Health-Related
Aerosol Studies, and Hamilton County
public health officials on how to
prepare for potential bioterrorism.
Participants also engaged in
priority-setting sessions and
recommended courses of action.
Additional workshop sponsors were the UC
Department of Environmental Health’s
Superfund Basic Research Program, Center
for Environmental Genetics, Molecular
Epidemiology in Children’s Environmental
Health Training Program, and Midwest
Consortium for Hazardous Waste Worker
Training Program.
The
following year, the EPC helped plan the
October 29-30, 2004 workshop
"Perspectives on Biodefense: Science,
Politics and Practice," sponsored by the
University of Cincinnati, City of
Cincinnati, U.S. EPA, and VA Medical
Center, and attended by over 120
people. The EPC moderated a session on
"Communicating the threat: what should
the public know and when?"
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