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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine. 2005. Rebuilding the Unity of Health and the Environment: The Greater Houston Metropolitan Area: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11221.
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Appendix A
Workshop Agenda

REBUILDING THE UNITY OF HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT: THE GREATER HOUSTON METROPOLITAN AREA

Sponsored by

The Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine

National Academy of Sciences Auditorium

2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

Friday, January 23, 2004

8:00 a.m

Registration

8:30 a.m

Welcome

The Honorable Paul Rogers, J.D.

Chair, Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine

Partner, Hogan and Hartson

8:35 a.m.

Goals and Objectives

Lovell Jones, Ph.D.

Roundtable Member

Professor, M.D. Anderson Medical Center

8:45 a.m.

What Is Environmental Health?

Lynn Goldman, M.D., M.P.H.

Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine. 2005. Rebuilding the Unity of Health and the Environment: The Greater Houston Metropolitan Area: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11221.
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9:10 a.m.

Environmental Health Challenges in Houston

Ken Sexton, Sc.D., M.B.A.

Professor, Environmental Sciences

The University of Texas School of Public Health, Brownsville Regional Campus

9:35 a.m.

General Discussion

9:50 a.m.

Break

Panel 1: The Natural Environment

Moderator:

Jim Lester, Ph.D., Director of Environmental Group, Houston Advance Research Center

10:05 a.m.

The Natural Environment and Human Health: An Urban, Particularly Houstonian, Perspective

Winifred J. Hamilton, Ph.D., S.M.

Director, Environmental Health Section

Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Research Center Baylor College of Medicine

10:20 a.m.

The Natural Environment: Planning for the Future, Looking at the Past

James Blackburn, J.D.

Partner, Blackburn and Carter, LLP

10:35 a.m.

Public Policy and Flooding: Impact on Health

Kevin Shanley

President, Bayou Preservation Association

10:50 a.m.

Drinking Water: Quality and Quantity

Roger Hulbert

Senior Assistant Director, Water Production, City of Houston

11:05 a.m.

Effects of Indoor and Outdoor Air Quality on Upper and Lower Airway Diseases and Comorbidities

Stuart Abramson, M.D.

Associate Director for Clinical Research, Children’s Asthma Center, Texas Children’s Hospital

11:20 a.m.

Air Quality, Particulate Matter, and Environmental Health

Ramon Alvarez, Ph.D.

Environmental Defense

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine. 2005. Rebuilding the Unity of Health and the Environment: The Greater Houston Metropolitan Area: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11221.
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11:35 a.m.

It’s Time to Retreat

Cath A. Conlon

Founder and Executive Director, Blackwood Educational Land Institute

and

Jackie Hall

The Hall Group

11:50 a.m.

Respondent: What Are the Next Steps?

LaNell Anderson

Director, Texas Bucket Brigade

12:00 p.m.

General Discussion

12:20 p.m.

Lunch

Panel 2: Social Environment

Moderator:

Nestor Rodriguez, Professor, University of Houston

12:50 p.m.

Social Environment: Challenges for the City of Houston

Stephen Klineberg, Ph.D.

Professor of Sociology, Rice University

1:15 p.m.

Cultural Diversity: What Houston’s Communities Say About the Environment

Beverly Gor, Ed.D., R.D.

President of the Asian American Health Coalition

Associate Director of Community Relations, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

1:30 p.m.

Respondent: Addressing the Emerging Social Needs in Houston

Angelina Esparza, R.N., B.A., B.S.N.

Past President, Houston Hispanic Health Coalition

1:40 p.m.

General Discussion

2:00 p.m.

Break

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine. 2005. Rebuilding the Unity of Health and the Environment: The Greater Houston Metropolitan Area: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11221.
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Panel 3: Built Environment

Moderator:

John Porretto, Roundtable Member, President, Sustainable Building Solutions, Inc.

2:15 p.m.

Overview of the Built Environment and Its Impact on Health

Samuel Wilson, M.D.

Roundtable Member

Deputy Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

2:35 p.m.

Brownfields and Environmental Justice

Martina Cartwright, Esq.

Environmental Health Law Clinic, Texas Southern University

2:50 p.m.

From Neighborhoods to the National Scene: Air Pollution, Exercise, and Vulnerable Populations

Anthony J. DeLucia, Ph.D.

Past Chair, American Lung Association

3:05 p.m.

Transportation: Urban Sprawl, Public Transportation, and Health

Catherine Pernot

Associate, Gulf Coast Institute

3:20 p.m.

Reducing Urban Temperature, Improving Outdoor Air Quality, and Reducing Heat-Related Mortality

Hashem Akbari, Ph.D.

Staff Scientist

Leader, Heat Island Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

3:40 p.m.

Environmental Health in Industry: Partnerships and Responsible Care

Carol Henry, Ph.D., D.A.B.T.

Vice President for Science and Research, American Chemistry Council

3:55 p.m.

Green Buildings and Environmental Health: Building Healthier Buildings

Brian Yeoman, M.A.

Senior Research Scientist, Houston Advance Research Center

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine. 2005. Rebuilding the Unity of Health and the Environment: The Greater Houston Metropolitan Area: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11221.
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4:10 p.m.

Respondent: Are We Making Progress or Are These Isolated Cases?

Jane Laping, M.P.H.

Executive Director, Mothers for Clean Air

4:20 p.m.

General Discussion

4:40 p.m.

Summation

4:45 p.m.

Adjourn

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine. 2005. Rebuilding the Unity of Health and the Environment: The Greater Houston Metropolitan Area: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11221.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine. 2005. Rebuilding the Unity of Health and the Environment: The Greater Houston Metropolitan Area: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11221.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine. 2005. Rebuilding the Unity of Health and the Environment: The Greater Houston Metropolitan Area: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11221.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine. 2005. Rebuilding the Unity of Health and the Environment: The Greater Houston Metropolitan Area: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11221.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine. 2005. Rebuilding the Unity of Health and the Environment: The Greater Houston Metropolitan Area: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11221.
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Houston is struggling with many of the environmental problems that most of the nation's major metropolitan areas are struggling with - transportation, water and air pollution, flooding, and major demographic changes. Therefore, Houston provided an excellent site for a regional meeting on the relationship between environment and health. The purpose of this workshop in Houston was to bring all the stakeholders together - the private and public sector, along with representatives of the diverse communities in Houston - to discuss the impact of the natural, built, and social environments on human health. Rebuilding the Unity of Health and the Environment summarizes the presentations and discussions of this workshop. The lessons one may draw from this meeting's presentations and discussions apply to other regions that are undergoing similar changes and that must also contend, as does Houston, with the legacies of insufficient planning, environmentally deficient planning, or sometimes, no planning at all.

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