• Opening Session [PDF, 796 Kb]
  Judith Qualters, PhD, Chief, Environmental Health Tracking Branch, CDC
   
• Welcome
  Calvin Johnson, MD, MPH, Pennsylvania Secretary of Health
   
• Opening Remarks [PDF, 796 Kb]
  Michael McGeehin, PhD, MSPH, Director, Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects, CDC
   
• Keynote Address [PDF, 796 Kb]
  Ed Thompson, MD, MPH, Deputy Director, Public Health Services, CDC
   

• A 21st Century Public Health Defense: From Concept to Communities [PDF, 796 Kb]
  Shelley A. Hearne, DrPH, Trust Form America’s Health (TFAH)
   
• Assessing Public Health Impact of Environmental Decisions Through Information Technology and Research [PDF, 796 Kb]
  Harold Zenick, PhD, and William A. Sonntag, Jr., USEPA
   
• Building a National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program [PDF, 796 Kb]
  Judy Qualters, PhD, CDC
   
• Building the Little Engine that Could [PDF, 796 Kb]
  Suzanne K. Condon, MS, MA, DOH
   

• University of California Berkeley School of Public Health
• Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
• Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
   

1. Mary Forbes, DHHS
   Federal Health Architecture and Consolidated Health Informatics [PDF, 796 Kb]
    
2. John Loonsk, MD, CDC
   Public Health Information Network (PHIN) (PDF)
    
3. William A. Sonntag, Jr., US EPA
   Eco-Informatics and the EPA National Environmental Information Exchange Network (NEIEN) [PDF, 796 Kb]
    
4. Virginia Foster, PhD, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Department of Defense (DoD)
   ESSENCE - A DoD Health Indicator Surveillance System [PDF, 796 Kb]

1B: Asthma and related Environmental Data
Moderator: Randolph Daley, DVM, MPH

Presenters/Topics:

1. Jeanne Moorman, MS, APRHB/CDC
   Asthma Surveillance at the National Level (PDF)
    
2. Karin Yeatts, PhD, Univ. NC at Chapel Hill
   Tracking Asthma and Wheezing-related School and Parental Work Absences [PDF, 796 Kb]
    
3. Amy J. Lay, MPH, NM DOH
   Development of an Asthma-Air Quality Data Linkage Tool [PDF, 796 Kb]
    
4. Francis P. Boscoe, PhD, NYS DOH
   An Air Quality and Childhood Asthma Surveillance System for New York State: Preliminary Design Considerations (PDF)
    
5. Paul Rathouz, PhD, Univ. of Chicago
   Modeling Effects of Air Pollution on Acute Asthma Outcomes in Chicago [PDF, 796 Kb]

1C: Emerging Issues – Autoimmune and Neurologic Diseases and related Environmental Data
Moderator: Patricia Price- Green, MSPH

Presenters/Topics:

1. Virginia Ladd, AARDA
   American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association [PDF, 796 Kb]
    
2. Dee Williamson, MS, NCEH/ATSDR,CDC
   Studies of Autoimmune/ Neurological Diseases in Communities Concerned about Environmental Exposure [PDF, 796 Kb]
    
3. Judy Henry, MS, TX DOH
   Challenges, Successes, and Issues: The Texas MS Surveillance Experience [PDF, 796 Kb]
    
4. Marni Y.V. Bekkedal, PhD, WI DOH
   Wisconsin's Application of Environmental Public Health Tracking to Multiple Sclerosis and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis [PDF, 796 Kb]
    
5. Mildred Williams-Johnson, Ph.D., Division of Toxicology, NCEH/ATSDR, CDC
   Neurological Effects from Toxic Substances in Completed Exposure Pathways
    

• Public Health and Natural Science - The Benefits of CDC/USGS Collaboration [PDF, 796 Kb]
  Timothy L. Miller, Chief, USGS National Water Quality Assessment Program
   
• Air Quality for EPHT [PDF, 796 Kb]
  Tim Watkins, MS, Assistant Laboratory Director Air and Mercury, USEPA
   

• Effective Use of Models and Pollutant Monitoring for Exposure Tracking [PDF, 796 Kb]
  Thomas McKone, PhD, School of Public Health University of California Berkeley
   
• Linking Exposure/Hazards and Health Outcomes (PDF)
  Frances J. Mather, PhD, Tulane University, School of Public Health
   
• Data Usage for Environmental Public Health Tracking: The Devil is in the Details [PDF, 796 Kb]
  Beth Resnick, MPH, ScM, Reasearch Associate, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
   

1. Paul B. English, PhD, MPH, CA DOHS
   Visualization and Analytical Methods for the Tracking of Birth Outcomes and Traffic Exposure [PDF, 796 Kb]
    
2. Fred Dimmick, MS, PE, Leader, Air Quality Trands Analysis Group, USEPA
   Available Air Quality Observations - Air Monitoring and Satellite Data [PDF, 796 Kb]
    
3. Tim Watkins, MS, Assistant LaboratoryDirector, Air and Mercury, USEPA
   Opportunities for Linking Air Quality and Public Health – Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Model and Other Models [PDF, 796 Kb]

2B: Data Linkage and Its Role in Identifying Blood Lead Levels, Related Environmental Data, and Medicaid Data
Moderator: Roger Gibson, MPH

Presenters/Topics:

1. Wendy Blumenthal, MPH, LPPB, CDC
   Eliminating Lead Poisoning through Improved Data Integration [PDF, 796 Kb]
    
2. Jeff Patridge, MA MO DOH
   Using Technology in the Fight to End Childhood Lead Poisoning in St. Louis City [PDF, 796 Kb]
    
3. Jeff Havlena, MS, WI Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
   Tracking Childhood Lead Testing and Poisoning in Wisconsin [PDF, 796 Kb]
    

2C: Pesticide Surveillance and Research: Models and Lessons for the Development of State, Local and National Tracking Systems
Moderator: Ruth Allen, PhD

Presenters/Topics:

1. Geoff M. Calvert, MD, MPH, NIOSH, CDC
   Tracking Acute Pesticide-related Illness in the US: The SENSOR-Pesticides Program [PDF, 796 Kb]
    
2. Michael C.R. Alavanja, DrPH, NCI
   The Agricultural Health Study Cohort: Use of Agricultural Pesticides and Associated Health Risks with an Emphasis on Lung Cancer
    
3. Daniel E. Kass, MSPH, NYC DHMH
   Linking Pesticide Hazard, Exposure and Health Outcomes Data in New York City - Early Report on the Development of a Tracking System [PDF, 796 Kb]
    

1. Lars Jarup, MSc, MD, PhD, FFPH, Imperial College London
   The Small Area Health Statistics Unit and the EUROHEIS Project - an Overview [PDF, 796 Kb]
    
2. Linda Beale, MA, PhD, Imperial College London
   GIS Methods – Use and Misuse [PDF, 796 Kb]
    
3. Sylvia Richardson, PhD, DSM, Imperial College London
   Statistical Methodology for Disease Mapping: Rate Smoothing and Issues of Sensitivity and Specificity [PDF, 796 Kb]
    
4. Nicky Best, MSc, PhD, Imperial College London
   Statistical Modelling of Environment- Health Relationships: Handling Ecological Bias [PDF, 796 Kb]
    
5. Peter Hambly, Imperial College London
   The Rapid Inquiry Facility – A Tool for Environmental Health risk Assessment (Demonstration)

3B: Birth Defects and Environmental Data: Making the Link
Moderator: Larry Edmonds, PhD

Presenters/Topics:

1. Edward F. Fitzgerald, PhD, NYS DOH
   Birth Defects Surveillance and Environmental Public HealthTracking in New York State [PDF, 796 Kb]
    
2. Adolfo Correa, PhD, NCBDDD, CDC
   Temporal and Spatial Variations in Birth Defects in Atlanta [PDF, 796 Kb]
    
3. Elaine Krueger, MPH, MA DOH
   Environmental/Development Disabilities Linkage Activities [PDF, 796 Kb]

3C: Cancer and Related Environmental Data
Moderator: Michael R. Spence, MD, MPH

Presenters/Topics:

1. Beverly Kingsley, PhD, MPH, NCEH/ATSDR, CDC
   Cancer Clusters and Related Activities at CDC [PDF, 796 Kb]
    
2. Dennis Deapen, DrPH, NAACCR
   State Cancer Registries and Environmental Public Health Tracking [PDF, 796 Kb]
    
3. Joann Held, NJ DEP
   Potential Sources of Environmental Data (PDF)
    
4. Lawrence P. Hanrahan, PhD, MS, WI DPH
   Childhood Cancer EPHT Demonstration Project (PDF)
    

1. Jody Lanard, MD, Risk Communication Consultant
   Risk Communication: Different Stakeholders, Different Guidelines [PDF, 796 Kb]
    
2. Susan Robinson, MS, NCEH/ATSDR, CDC
   CDCynergy Environmental Health Edition [PDF, 796 Kb]
    
3. Dick Tardif, PhD, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
   Overview of EPHT/ORISE Communication Activities [PDF, 796 Kb]
    
4. Edward M. Oh, MPH, California Environmental Public Health Tracking Program
   California Environmental Health Tracking Program Stakeholder Needs Assessment [PDF, 796 Kb]

4B: Developmental Disabilities: Surveillance, Databases, Data-Sharing, and Environmental Associations
Moderator: David R. Johnson, MD, MS

Presenters/Topics:

1. Kim Van Naarden Braun, PhD, NCBDDD, CDC
   Developmental Disabilities Surveillance: Methods and Results from the Metropolitan Atlanta Developmental Disabilities Surveillance Program (MADDSP) [PDF, 796 Kb]
    
2. Keith G. Scott, PhD, Univ. of Miami
   The University of Miami Developmental Disabilities Database and the Value of Department of Education Data [PDF, 796 Kb]
    
3. Beverly Dozier, JD, EPO, CDC
   The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA): Challenges in Data Sharing
    
4. Frank J. Bove, ScD, NCEH/ATSDR, CDC
   Environmental Etiologies Associated with Developmental Disabilities and the Brick Township, NJ Autism Cluster Investigation: Challenges in Identifying Environmental Etiologies [PDF, 796 Kb]

4C: Legislation, Data Access, and Privacy Issues
Moderator: Amanda Sue Niskar, DrPH, RN

Presenters/Topics:

1. Jason W. Sapsin, JD, MPH, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
   Impact of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act on Environmental Public Health Tracking (PDF)
    
2. Lloyd L. Evans, BS, IL DOPH
   Application of the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program’s Bill Writer’s Toolkit [PDF, 796 Kb]
    
3. Eric M. Roberts, MD, PhD, CA DOH
   Public-Private Partnerships for Environmental Public Health Tracking [PDF, 796 Kb]
    

• Biomonitoring Panel “Overview” [PDF, 796 Kb]
  Ronald H. Laessig, PhD, Director, Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene
   
• Successful Partnering - Epidemiology and Laboratory [PDF, 796 Kb]
  Laurie Peterson-Wright, MS, Colorado State Public Health Laboratory
   
• Rocky Mountain Biomonitoring Laboratory Consortium and Integration with Environmental Public Health Tracking (PDF)
  Len Flowers, MS, New Mexico State Public Health Department
   
• A Paradigm for Biomonitoring [PDF, 796 Kb]
  Steven C. MacDonald, PhD, MPH, Washington State Dept. of Health
   
• Opportunistic Environmental Bio-Monitoring: The NYC HANES Experience [PDF, 796 Kb]
  Nancy Loder Jeffery, RN, MPH, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
   

• The People Network: Bridging the Environment-Health Gap [PDF, 796 Kb]
  Beth Resnick, MPH, ScM, Research Associate, Johns Hopkins Boomberg School of Public Health
   
• Forming Alliances to Improve Environmental Public Health [PDF, 796 Kb]
  Becky Smullin, MPH Association for State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)
   
• Three Thousand Local Health Agencies are Here to Help [PDF, 796 Kb]
  Thomas S. Dunlop, REHS Public Health Advocate, Pitkin County, CO
   
• Partnership Development in the City of Houston: Successes and Challenges
  J. Isaac Joyner, MPH, City of Houston DHHS
   

• Where Do We Go From Here?
  Michael McGeehin, PhD, MSPH
  Director, Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects, CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health