Environmental Health Nexus (EH Nexus)
Webinars, Meetings and Conferences
Environmental Health Nexus (EH Nexus) webinars, meetings and conferences bring together subject matter experts from CDC and partner organizations to discuss environmental health topics that serve to inform public health professionals and the general public.
EH Nexus webinars, meetings and conferences will be broadcast on Zoom or Facebook, and closed captioning will be available through Streamtext. All EH Nexus events will be posted to the EH Nexus YouTube Playlist, and presentation slides will be available within this website shortly before the presentation date.
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The 2nd annual NIHHIS National Meeting aims to bring together multiple stakeholders (federal agencies, state and local government, private and public partners, community leaders) to discuss heat and health with the goal of reducing risk on multiple timescales and geographic scales. This meeting is focused on engaging communities and developing a shared vision for community heat resilience. The three themes of the meeting include: Intersections in Heat and Health; Highlighting Science, Innovation, and Research; and State, Local, Territorial, and Tribal Policies and Practices and in Heat Planning.
The NIHHIS National will be a virtual meeting through Zoom, and will take place from April 25th-27th, 2023. The meeting includes keynote speakers, presentations and panels on heat and health topics, and more. The meeting will also include virtual networking opportunities.
Please visit heat.gov to learn more information about NIHHIS National, including accessing the agenda.
When:
Tuesday, April 25–Thursday, April 27, 2023,
1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Registration is free.
Closed captioning will be available.
A few minutes before the webinar begins, please click this link to register/join: https://www.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_P_9K20xUQRGrv4Cwh8xSIg
Upon receiving your registration confirmation email, enclosed will be your personalized connection link for usage on PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone or Android devices.
Information will also be available for joining by phone, H.323/SIP rooms and international callers.
For more information on the NIHHIS National Meeting, please visit: NIHHIS National Meeting.
In the event that we reach maximum capacity on the Zoom platform, you can watch NIHHIS National live on our Youtube page. We will send out the streaming link to all participants before and during the meeting.
Speakers/Presenters
Dr. Fowler is the Chief of the Community Engagement Science and Interventions Section (CESIS) in the Office of Capacity Development and Applied Prevention Science at the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Dr. Fowler leads CESIS in the development and implementation of best practices for effectively engaging communities and health professionals to address environmental health.
Ms. Bing is an Environmental Health Scientist with the Office of Community Health and Hazard Assessment at the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Her work involves protecting communities from exposure to toxic chemicals from Superfund, brownfields, and emergency hazardous waste sites.
Dr. Ruckart currently serves as the Team Lead for the Program Development, Communications, and Evaluation Team at CDC’s Lead Poisoning Prevention and Surveillance Branch (proposed). She has also worked as a co-principal investigator for studies of contaminated drinking water and adverse health outcomes at Camp Lejeune and as a technical consultant for the National Toxic Substance Incidents Program.
If you have questions or need additional information, please contact ehnexus@cdc.gov
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Workshop Agenda
Zoom allows a maximum of 1,000 participants. If you are not admitted into the Zoom meeting, please try again later in the day as we expect attendance will be dynamic. Also, the presentations will be available to view on the Environmental Health Nexus webpage approximately two weeks after the workshop.