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Four years after the release of the initial recommendations, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is reconvening an independent, nonpartisan group of commissioners who will provide new guidance to improve the health of all Americans. At this public meeting, experts will provide testimony on innovative strategies, programs and key research. The agenda is posted on the website. The meeting will be available via webcast.
Price: free

Growing evidence demonstrates that social and economic factors have significant influence over health outcomes. Because of this, interest in considering health in decision-making processes related to social and economic decisions has been growing over the last decade, and tools like Health Impact Assessments (HIA) and compelling approaches such as Health in All Policies (HiAP) are being explored and implemented by many. And the interest is growing. Compelling evidence also demonstrates the startling and immense health inequities our society faces today and continues to perpetuate. As a result, the consideration of equity within HIA and HiAP is vital to achieving equitable health outcomes and ensuring health inequities are not perpetuated through new practices. This webinar will focus specifically on why equity is critical to HiAP and HIA and specific strategies to implement and ensure equity. The speakers will discuss principles and frameworks for the inclusion of equity, as well as present examples of the principles in practice. There will be opportunity for audience Q&A, as well as discussion.
Price: free

The public health workforce is charged with the task of promoting and protecting the health of all populations. As such, public health workers encounter ethical issues in many of their regular activities, assignments and decisions. Often, government assistance, oversight or intervention is involved to facilitate this process and ensure that ethical issues are carefully considered. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention define public health ethics as a "systematic process to clarify, prioritize and justify possible courses of public health action based on ethical principles, values and beliefs of stakeholders, and scientific and other information." This broadcast will examine the definition of public health ethics, explore how ethical issues in public health may differ from other ethical issues, and review several current issues in public health ethics. Continuing education credits in nursing are available.
Price: free

Contact: 518-402-0330 or coned@albany.edu

The Rise of the US Environmental Health Movement by Kate Davies is the first book to offer a comprehensive examination of the environmental health movement, which unlike many parts of the environmental movement, focuses on ways toxic chemicals and other hazardous agents in the environment affect human health and well-being. Born in 1978 when Lois Gibbs organized her neighbors to protest the health effects of a toxic waste dump in Love Canal, New York, the movement has spread across the United States and throughout the world. By placing human health at the center of its environmental argument, this movement has achieved many victories in community mobilization and legislative reform. On this call Davies and Elise Miller, CHE's director and author of the book's forward, will discuss the environmental health movement's historical, ideological, and cultural roots as well as talk about its strategies and successes.
Price: free

Contact: CHE, info@healthandenvironment.org

Environmental noise can lead to an array of health issues including hearing loss and heart disease. But noise is ubiquitous and comes from a myriad of sources, which limits individuals in their power to lower the levels of dangerous noise at work, school, and on private and public property. This webinar explores why noise is a public health issue, which legal tools may be best suited to lower noise and minimize risk of harm, and what innovations to reduce the harmful effects of noise are currently underway. Presenters will discuss the noise threshold that is considered dangerous, and who is responsible to ensure safe levels of community noise; how federal, state, and local government can use their authority to protect the public from dangerous levels of noise; and which legal tools have the potential to protect public health and ensure civil liberties, such as free speech, are protected.
Price: free

Based on the 2012 SOPHE Annual Chapter Report, Chapter members reported mental health and tobacco use as priority topics for future webinars in 2013 because the connection between mental health and tobacco use continues to rise at an alarming rate while tobacco use continues to be the leading preventable cause of death in the United States annually. Studies find that mental health and tobacco use have a complex relationship as tobacco exposure may aggravate existing mental health issues and has a multiplicative effect on diabetes complications. In response, National SOPHE organized this webinar to provide participants with a brief description of the relationship of tobacco use and mental health, information to justify the need for tobacco cessation intervention and offer resources for referral and education.
Price: free

Facilitation skills are used to form productive teams, plan programs, and implement controversial projects. Trained facilitators help groups communicate productively, constructively manage diverse points of view, and create concrete actions as a result of meetings. It is also a personally satisfying experience when you, as the meeting facilitator, bring out the best in the people in a meeting and can help a team improve its performance. In addition to presenting a core program of facilitation skills and substantial practice with these skills, in this course we tailor the experience to the participants' specific needs. We do this by having participants complete a pre-workshop needs profile. By combining the core curriculum with the participants' needs, the training experience is customized to each audience and demonstrates the practicality of implementing the concepts in real-life situations. A study by Microsoft® pointed to worthless meetings as a major time waster in America. Respondents in their survey spend 5.6 hours each week in meetings and 71 percent of these people think those meetings "...aren't productive." Good meetings don't just happen. Leaders with outstanding facilitation skills are key to turning this wasted time into meetings that produce results. This course is intended for anyone who wants to increase their personal effectiveness and have greater influence over the work they do in groups.
Price: $695 or $645 for employees of Native American tribes, nonprofits, and government agencies; students; and NAEP members
Contact: Northwest Environmental Training Center, 425-270-3274 ext 103

This conference will present information about the latest developments in HHW/CESQG management and education, product stewardship, chemical policy and safer products. The conference will include training on a variety of relevant topics, technical sessions addressing hot topics in our field, and interesting facility tours. A list of suggested topics includes these: 1) specific waste types, including mercury, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, paint & solvents, e-waste, and school chemicals; 2) behavior change; 3) safer alternative products; 4) chemical policy/green chemistry; 5) legislative & regulatory policy; 6) links between HHW/CESQG programs and climate change, water quality, green building, environmental health, and disaster planning & response; 7) nanomaterials; and 8) partnering with NGOs and community organizations.

Contact: Jim Quinn, 503-797-1662 or jim.quinn@oregonmetro.gov

EPA's National Clean Diesel Funding Assistance Program is soliciting proposals nationwide for projects that achieve significant reductions in diesel emissions in terms of tons of pollution produced by diesel engines and diesel emissions exposure, particularly from fleets operating in areas designated by the Administrator as poor air quality areas. Eligible entities include regional, state, local or tribal agencies (or intertribal consortia) or port authorities with jurisdiction over transportation or air quality, and nonprofit organizations or institutions that a) represent or provide pollution reduction or educational services to persons or organizations that own or operate diesel fleets or b) have, as their principal purpose, the promotion of transportation or air quality.
Award: $30,000 - $800,000 per proposal
Contact: please see page 34 of the RFP

Join environmental health expert Kate Davies for a discussion of the roots, strategies and successes of the environmental health movement. By placing human health at the center of concern, the movement has achieved many victories in community mobilization and legislative reform since it was born in 1978 when Lois Gibbs organized her neighbors to protest a toxic waste dump in Love Canal, New York. Join this call to share why the environmental health movement is important to you and hear Kate Davies' perspective on what it will take to fully protect public health. Kate Davies has been active on environmental health issues for 35 years in the US, Canada and the UK. Her new book, The Rise of the US Environmental Health Movement, is the first book to offer a comprehensive examination of the US environmental health movement.
Price: free

Contact: CHE, info@healthandenvironment.org

EPA's Risk Assessment Forum Cumulative Risk Assessment (CRA) Technical Panel is currently developing guidelines on CRA and NCER is funding extramural research to advance the science further and introduce additional strategies for examining combinations of chemical, physical and biological stressors while factoring in population vulnerabilities. Invited speakers will present on a wide range of cumulative risk topics to inform participants about the development of the Agency's CRA Guidelines. The CRA Webinar Series will be presented monthly to run through December 2013. The CRA Webinar Series is open to the public to stimulate wider discourse on cumulative risk themes generally. The June Webinar will feature Dr. Wenyaw Chan presenting "EPA STAR Grantee, Statistical Methods for Cumulative Risk."
Price: free

Contact: Devon Payne-Sturges, 703-347-8055 or payne-sturges.devon@epa.gov

Built in secret during WWII, the Hanford Nuclear Site, located in eastern Washington, quietly produced a majority of the plutonium used in the US's nuclear arsenal. Along with radiation released into the air and Columbia River, plutonium production produced millions of gallons of nuclear waste currently stored in leaking underground tanks. The area is now the largest environmental cleanup project in history. By combining the arts with science, we will explore the history of the area, Hanford's worldwide impacts, and the effect radiation has on our health. Join us to learn more about the current clean-up situation, environmental and health risks to downwinders and clean up workers, as well as how you can make a difference and get involved in making Washington a safer environment
Price: free

The life cycle of industrial, agricultural, and antimicrobial chemical products, especially those embedded in consumer products, has gained increasing public attention. Regulators are beginning to look at the entire product lifecycle, including after the discard of a product at the end of its useful life, not just toxicity data. This course examines the regulation of chemicals that are used in industrial and consumer products, as well as pesticides, and describes the new governance and stewardship initiatives being considered globally by a wide variety of stakeholders to diminish the potential for adverse effects from chemicals. The event is open to the public to attend in person (space is limited) or by teleconference. Please RSVP by June 21st.
Price: free

Contact: Marcia McMurrin, mcmurrin@eli.org

Price: free

Contact: CHE info@healthandenvironment.org

Want to learn how you can leverage data from the Environmental Public Health Tracking Network for Health Impact Assessments? Then join us for a co-presentation by the Minnesota Department of Health's Environmental Public Health Tracking and Climate & Health Programs describing their successful use of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease data in Health Impact Assessments. Speakers will discuss opportunities for intersection between HIA and Tracking data and will also provide participants with a national perspective on the uses of Health Impact Assessments and the Tracking Network.
Price: free

How can scientists project the impacts of climate change years in advance? Scenarios underpin climate change research and assessment of the magnitude and extent of changes in climate and associated impacts, the degree to which mitigation and adaptation policies can reduce risks, the interactions among and trade-offs between climate change impacts and adaptation and mitigation policies, and the relationship between climate change and development. The framework for developing these scenarios and their implications for health are the topics for the upcoming webinar. The Global Environmental Health and Sustainable Development Innovation Collaborative is hosting a three-part webinar series, under the coordination of the Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine (EHSRM Roundtable). The aim of the webinar series is to engage members of academia, government organizations, professional societies, and students at schools of public health in dialogue around health, economic development, equity, sustainability, and environmental challenges and to stimulate fresh thinking on possible solutions.
Price: free
Contact: IOM, 202-334-2352

Learn about the emerging public health issue from cell phones and wireless technologies; warnings from around the world; the special vulnerability of children, fetuses and sperm; what independent (non-industry-funded) science shows; and ways other countries are limiting children's cell phones and wireless exposures. Presenters will include Devra Davis, PhD, MPH; Hugh Taylor, MD; David Carpenter, MD; Martin Blank, PhD; and Camilla Rees, MBA.
Price: free

Contact: Emily@ElectromagneticHealth.org

Facilitation skills are used to form productive teams, plan programs, and implement controversial projects. Trained facilitators help groups communicate productively, constructively manage diverse points of view, and create concrete actions as a result of meetings. It is also a personally satisfying experience when you, as the meeting facilitator, bring out the best in the people in a meeting and can help a team improve its performance. In addition to presenting a core program of facilitation skills and substantial practice with these skills, in this course we tailor the experience to the participants' specific needs. We do this by having participants complete a pre-workshop needs profile. By combining the core curriculum with the participants' needs, the training experience is customized to each audience and demonstrates the practicality of implementing the concepts in real-life situations. A study by Microsoft® pointed to worthless meetings as a major time waster in America. Respondents in their survey spend 5.6 hours each week in meetings and 71 percent of these people think those meetings "...aren't productive." Good meetings don't just happen. Leaders with outstanding facilitation skills are key to turning this wasted time into meetings that produce results. This course is intended for anyone who wants to increase their personal effectiveness and have greater influence over the work they do in groups.
Price: $695 or $645 for employees of Native American tribes, nonprofits, and government agencies; students; and NAEP members
Contact: Northwest Environmental Training Center, 425-270-3274 ext 103

The AEC is the event environmental health professionals attend to acquire practical and real-world information and expertise.
Price: unknown

Contact: NEHA, 866-956-2258 or staff@neha.org

Researchers at the Children's Centers continue to publish significant research results increasing awareness and making a difference in quality of life and our environmental impact awareness. This Webinar series is designed to share research progress and significant findings from the Childrens Centers. The presentations this month will be 1) "Epigenetics, Endocrine Disruptors and Early Development" with Susan Schantz of Novel Methods to Assess Effects of Bisphenol A & Phthalates on Child Development at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and 2) "Placental Epigenetic Biomarkers of Exposure and Health" with Carmen Marsit of the Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Center at Dartmouth College.
Price: free

Contact: Richard Callan, 703-347-8051 or callan.richard@epa.gov

Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). The program supports research on environmental and policy strategies with strong potential to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity, especially among lower-income and racial and ethnic populations at highest risk for obesity. Findings are expected to advance RWJF's efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015. This call for proposals is for two types of awards aimed at providing advocates, decision-makers, and policy-makers with evidence to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic. The award types are Round 8 grants and RWJF New Connections grants awarded through the Healthy Eating Research program.
Award: Approximately $1.6 million will be awarded under this CFP for the two award types.
Contact: see page 17 of the PDF document

The theme of these symposia is "Is my neighborhood killing me?", with keynote speaker Vernice Miller-Travis. The objectives of the symposia are to 1) raise the awareness of Southeast Community residents about the links between environmental pollution exposure and associated health risks; 2) educate participants about environmental pollution emissions and associated health risks that are specific to the Southeast Community of Newport News, Virginia; and 3) establish a community consensus, prioritized list of environmental concerns.
Price: free

Contact: see the Contact page

The sixth annual San Francisco Department of Public Health Program on Health, Equity and Sustainability summer training course for health impact assessment (HIA) practitioners will cover a wide range of topics in HIA. The training objectives for each day are listed on the website. Registration will be open until June 28, 2013.
Price: $960 (includes the cost of course materials, breakfast and lunch)
Contact: SFDPH, 415-252-3800

A major social determinant of health is our food system—not only what we eat, but how that food is grown, processed and made available to the market. From pesticide use to fertilizer nanomaterials to antibiotics in animal feed, science raises important public health concerns around agriculture, but these concerns are largely ignored at the policy level, include by the Food and Drug Administration. Every five years, the federal Farm Bill—the nation's largest piece of food and farm related legislation—strongly steers how these and related issues are handled. Congress failed to pass any Farm Bill last year, and health professionals are increasingly troubled by the direction of the 2013 version. On this call David Wallinga, MD, MPA, founder of Healthy Food Action (and formerly IATP senior scientist) discusses the prospects for policy-led change in the health of the US food system, at the federal level as well as at the community level. In contrast to the gridlock around the Farm Bill, local communities around the country are innovating and changing food system policy and practice in important ways. Ashley Colpaart, MS, RD, chair-elect of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics' Hunger and Environmental Nutrition practice group also discusses the relationship between health services, nutritious food and a sustainable environment. Finally Dr. Preston Maring of Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center will discuss his work to bring farmers markets to Kaiser Permanente facilities across multiple states.
Price: free

Contact: CHE, info@healthandenvironment.org

Part of the Improving the Health of Communities through the National Prevention Strategy series, this webinar will examine how homes and community design can promote inclusiveness for all populations. Understanding risks and impacts of municipal planning, including those that can affect health, will help ensure that land use and transportation decisions result in positive and equitable health outcomes.
Price: free

Contact: Cherri Pruitt, 303-844-7872 or cherri.pruitt@hrsa.hhs.gov

Current patterns of land use, building, and travel behavior have affected the environment in many ways. EPA's Smart Growth Program invites you to participate in a webinar that examines how we could reduce those impacts as our nation's population grows. The webinar will provide an overview of EPA's recent report, Our Built and Natural Environments: A Technical Review of the Interactions among Land Use, Transportation, and Environmental Quality. Dr. Melissa Kramer, the report's author, and John Frece, director of EPA's Office of Sustainable Communities, will discuss how development affects human health and the environment, as well as land use and transportation strategies that yield better environmental results.
Price: free

Contact: see the Contact page

EPA's Risk Assessment Forum Cumulative Risk Assessment (CRA) Technical Panel is currently developing guidelines on CRA and NCER is funding extramural research to advance the science further and introduce additional strategies for examining combinations of chemical, physical and biological stressors while factoring in population vulnerabilities. Invited speakers will present on a wide range of cumulative risk topics to inform participants about the development of the Agency's CRA Guidelines. The CRA Webinar Series will be presented monthly to run through December 2013. The CRA Webinar Series is open to the public to stimulate wider discourse on cumulative risk themes generally. The July Webinar will feature Dr. George Alexeeff presenting "Cal/EPA Cumulative Impact Methodology."
Price: free

Contact: Devon Payne-Sturges, 703-347-8055 or payne-sturges.devon@epa.gov

Attendees will discuss the field of health impact assessment (HIA) in the southeast United States. The meeting is open to those doing HIA work or are interested in doing/promoting HIA in this region (West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas). All are welcome to attend but the focus will be on the Southeast and at least a basic understanding of HIA is advised for participants to get the most out of the meeting. The preliminary schedule is posted on the website.
Price: unknown

The Health and Transportation Subcommittee of the Transportation Research Board seeks research papers about using transportation and travel analysis/models in coordination with public health analysis/models to understand how transportation and land use systems affect public health outcomes. Specific topics of interest are listed on the website. The meeting is scheduled for January 12 - 16, 2014, in Washington, DC.

Contact: Eloisa Raynault, American Public Health Association, eloisa.raynault@apha.org

Becoming a skilled negotiator improves management effectiveness and preserves positive working relationships. The program works from the proven premise that every negotiation involves multiple dimensions of interests and introduces attendees to a straightforward model to plan and engage in negotiations effectively. Attendees should expect to take part in discussions, exercises, lectures, and mock negotiations that create a dynamic and fun training. The skills learned will be immediately applicable to the next negotiation opportunity. This two-day workshop is a companion course with our Facilitation and Conflict Resolution courses. What distinguishes this course is its focus on simultaneously advocating for the specific interests while building positive working relationships that can be used in the future. This course is especially helpful for teams from the same organization. When colleagues attend the program together the organization benefits not only from these employees gaining skills but also from shared knowledge they can use to ‘team-up' and support one another or act as an in-house consultant able to give advice to other employees.
Price: $695 or $645 for Native American tribes, government employees, nonprofits, students and NAEP, NEBC, NWAEP members; a $50 discount is available before June 15, 2013.
Contact: Northwest Environmental Training Center, 425-270-3274

Learn how Safe Routes to School programs across the nation are changing the habits of an entire generation of schoolchildren while improving the health and environment of numerous communities. This fourth national conference will feature workshop sessions, mobile tours, inspirational presentations, and networking opportunities to help you start or expand your SRTS program. This event, which takes place every two years, will once again bring together the wide range of practitioners that are working at the local, regional, state and national level to make it safe, convenient, and fun for children to walk and bicycle safely to school.
Price: $350 for the three-day conference or $150 per day

Contact: see the Contact page

This fourth edition of the event will be an opportunity to learn the state of the art with regard to the study and control of air pollution, modeling and implementation of public policies, particularly through plenary sessions which will be conducted by national and international experts who are highly respected and recognized. Additionally, there will be several breakout sessions where representatives from universities, research centers, government agencies and consulting firms will show the latest developments on these issues worldwide.
Price: see the Registration page on the website

Contact: see the Contact page

Researchers at the Children's Centers continue to publish significant research results increasing awareness and making a difference in quality of life and our environmental impact awareness. This Webinar series is designed to share research progress and significant findings from the Childrens Centers. The featured presentations will be "Autism" with Isaac Pessah and "Nutrition and Autism Spectrum Disorders: Importance and Potential Mechanisms" with Rebecca Schmidt. Both speakers are from the Center for Children's Environmental Health (CCEH) at UC Davis.
Price: free

Contact: Richard Callan, 703-347-8051 or callan.richard@epa.gov

Discussion at this conference will revolve around the theme of "New Insights into Noncommunicable Disease Prevention: The Next Step." The theme is important nowadays with many changing public health facades and new perils that need great leadership and governance. Without such leadership, public policies will disintegrate leaving many gaps in health care and its related implications on the health environment. Several related sub-themes have also been identified to be deliberated and pondered upon.

Contact: see the Contact page

This cooperative agreement will provide funding to an organization that represents a broad cross section of Indian Tribes and Alaska Native Villages to help increase the amount of tribal participation in the Exchange Network through outreach and support for and participation in the Exchange Network Tribal Governance Group (TGG). The successful applicant will promote collaboration, mentoring between technologically advanced and newer tribal partners in the Exchange Network and information sharing among tribal stakeholders of the Exchange Network.
Award: EPA anticipates award of approximately one cooperative agreement, whose annual value shall not exceed $160,000. The cooperative agreement will be funded incrementally up to four additional years. Additional funds may be added to each subsequent year of the agreement, subject to satisfactory performance, availability of funds, and other applicable considerations.

Contact: Salena Reynolds, 202-566-0466 or Reynolds.Salena@epa.gov

The theme of these symposia is "Is my neighborhood killing me?", with keynote speaker Mayor McKinley Price, DDS. The objectives of the symposia are to 1) raise the awareness of Southeast Community residents about the links between environmental pollution exposure and associated health risks; 2) educate participants about environmental pollution emissions and associated health risks that are specific to the Southeast Community of Newport News, Virginia; and 3) establish a community consensus, prioritized list of environmental concerns.
Price: free

Contact: see the Contact page

This is part one of a two-part Web Forum series designed to promote more physically active recess in schools. Part one is intended for school administrators, public health practitioners (e.g. school wellness coordinators), and parents who want to learn how to influence policies and practices that support the overall health and well-being of students. Jennifer Huberty, PhD, and Aaron Beighle, PhD, experts in improving physical activity in children, will discuss the Ready for Recess program, which works to reverse the trend of childhood obesity with specific strategies and tactics to maximize the benefits of recess. This program is based on research conducted by Drs. Huberty and Beighle, which showed that children are most active at recess when environments support physical activity participation.
Price: free

EPA, as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, is seeking applications proposing research to study life stage and/or genetic susceptibility in order to better characterize the sources of human variability in response to chemical exposure. The adverse outcome pathways (AOP) concept has the potential to serve as a framework for using susceptibility indicators, biomonitoring, and high throughput screening (HTS) data in an integrated manner to predict population responses to novel, potentially harmful chemicals. While much emphasis has been placed on improved biomonitoring and HTS approaches, research is needed to understand the underlying factors that influence human susceptibility and to develop tools and methods for the identification and use of susceptibility indicators in this context. This solicitation provides the opportunity for the submission of applications for projects that may involve human subjects research.
Award: up to a total of $800,000 per award, up to four awards
Contact: see the webpage

Researchers at the Children's Centers continue to publish significant research results increasing awareness and making a difference in quality of life and our environmental impact awareness. This Webinar series is designed to share research progress and significant findings from the Childrens Centers. The presentation this month will be "Asthma", with featured speakers Andrew Liu of the Denver Children's Environmental Health Center, Environmental Determinants of Airway Disease in Children at National Jewish Health, Rob McConnell of the University of Southern California, and David Schwartz of the Denver Children's Environmental Health Center, Environmental Determinants of Airway Disease in Children at National Jewish Health.
Price: free

Contact: Richard Callan, 703-347-8051 or callan.richard@epa.gov

This is part two of a two-part Web Forum series on the Ready for Recess program, which was developed by Jennifer Huberty, PhD, and Aaron Beighle, PhD, experts in improving physical activity in children. Part two is intended for teachers and other school staff who are directly involved with leading recess activities. The Ready for Recess program can help prevent and alleviate childhood obesity by increasing students' ability to be more physically active during recess through practice and environmental changes.
Price: free

Part of the Improving the Health of Communities through the National Prevention Strategy series, this webinar will discuss federal programs and resources that focus on creating safe and healthy environments in schools, anti-bullying efforts, healthy relationships and communication.
Price: free

Contact: Cherri Pruitt, 303-844-7872 or cherri.pruitt@hrsa.hhs.gov

Building on the success of the Inaugural Health Impact Assessment (HIA) meeting, this conference will convene policymakers, public health professionals, HIA practitioners, community-based organizations, researchers, decision makers from non-health agencies who might use or rely on the results of an HIA, such as planning, transportation, housing, agriculture, energy, environment and education, and others with an interest in learning more about HIAs. It will also offer a special, one-day summit tailored specifically to policymakers. New to this year's agenda are optional, half-day post-conference discussion sessions on September 26th. Pre-registration is required for post-conference discussion sessions. Topics for discussions will be available prior to registration.
Price: see the website

The theme of the ICOSSHE 2013 is "Good Governance, Healthy Lifestyle, and Sustainable Environment: Trilogy for World Peace and Development." The objectives of the conference are to 1) provide a forum for professional and student researchers across the world as means for dissemination and utilization of high impact research; 2) nourish collaborations among researchers and institutions in the promotion and production of research; 3) recognize meritorious contributions of world researchers and institutions; and 4) promote quality research publications as credible sources of scientific literature. ICOSSHE 2013 is a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary conference.
Price: US $775

Contact: see the Contact page

The theme of these symposia is "Is my neighborhood killing me?" The objectives of the symposia are to 1) raise the awareness of Southeast Community residents about the links between environmental pollution exposure and associated health risks; 2) educate participants about environmental pollution emissions and associated health risks that are specific to the Southeast Community of Newport News, Virginia; and 3) establish a community consensus, prioritized list of environmental concerns.
Price: free

Contact: see the Contact page

The keynote speakers will be Dr. Ted Schettler, co-author of Generations at Risk: Reproductive Health and the Environment and Senator Jeff Merkley, Democrat-Oregon.
Price: see the website

Contact: Kim Krull, kkrull.opha@gmail.com

This conference will consider drinking water supply, sanitation, hygiene and water resources in both the developing and developed worlds with a strong public health emphasis. Main conference themes are 1) hygiene and behavioral change; 2) M&E: local, global, and human right perspectives; 3) institutions, finance, and sustainability; 4) sanitation and health; and 5) water supply and quality: from catchment to consumer and back.

Contact: waterandhealth2013@unc.edu

This conference is intended to highlight what is happening in the world of linked population-based data as it applies to public policy regarding the health of populations. What are the new and exciting data sources? What fields are furthest ahead in capitalizing on data to produce evidence for public policy? What evidence are they producing? What can we learn from use of big data in the private sector? Where will we be 10 years from now? Come join us and help chart that future.

Contact: Sally Clelford, 613-288-9239 ext. 101 or sally@f2fe.com

APHA's meeting program addresses current and emerging health science, policy, and practice issues in an effort to prevent disease and promote health.

Contact: see the Contact page

Part of the Improving the Health of Communities through the National Prevention Strategy series, this webinar will discuss the National Prevention Strategy's goals related to active living.
Price: free

Contact: Cherri Pruitt, 303-844-7872 or cherri.pruitt@hrsa.hhs.gov

The TRB Annual Meeting program covers all transportation modes, with more than 4,000 presentations in nearly 750 sessions and workshops addressing topics of interest to all attendees—policy makers, administrators, practitioners, researchers, and representatives of government, industry, and academic institutions. The spotlight theme for the 2014 TRB Annual Meeting is Celebrating Our Legacy, Anticipating Our Future.

Contact: see the Contact page

The Environmental Sustainability program supports engineering research with the goal of promoting sustainable engineered systems that support human well-being and that are also compatible with sustaining natural (environmental) systems. These systems provide ecological services vital for human survival. The long-term viability of natural capital is critical for many areas of human endeavor. Research in Environmental Sustainability typically considers long time horizons and may incorporate contributions from the social sciences and ethics. There are four principal general research areas which are supported, but others can be proposed: industrial ecology, green engineering, ecological engineering and earth systems engineering.
Award: The average annual award size for the program is $100,000.

Contact: Bruce Hamilton, 703-292-7066 or bhamilto@nsf.gov

Three decades of experience in launching, managing and evaluating thousands of programs in workplace, clinical, education, family and community settings have demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that health promotion works. Health promotion programs improve health, reduce medical costs and enhance productivity...somewhat, sometimes, in some places. Stated differently, there is huge variation in the impact of a program, depending on how well it is designed and implemented. This conference will present the best of what we do know about what works best.
Price: unknown

Contact: see the Contact page

This conference is intended to highlight what is happening in the world of linked population-based data as it applies to public policy regarding the health of populations. What are the new and exciting data sources? What fields are furthest ahead in capitalizing on data to produce evidence for public policy? What evidence are they producing? What can we learn from use of big data in the private sector? Where will we be 10 years from now? Come join us and help chart that future.
Price: unknown

Contact: Sally Clelford, 613-288-9239 ext. 101 or sally@f2fe.com

The purpose of the NIH Research Conference (R13) Grant and NIH Research Conference Cooperative Agreement (U13) Programs is to support high quality conferences that are relevant to the public health and to the scientific mission of the participating Institutes and Centers.
Contact: see the website

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is part of the NNIEHS "Partnerships for Environmental Public Health" (PEPH) program. The PEPH program supports a variety of research, outreach and training/educational activities to identify, prevent, reduce or eliminate environmental exposures that lead to adverse health outcomes in communities. This particular FOA encourages community-engagement projects designed to investigate the potential health risks of environmental exposures of concern to a community and to implement an environmental public health action plan based on research findings. This announcement also reflects the National Institute of Nursing Research's (NINR's) ongoing investment in clinical, biological and translational research programs in many areas, including chronic illness, symptom management, disease prevention, and patient-focused health programs that encourage and enable individuals to become guardians of their own well-being.
Award: direct costs must be less than $500,000 in any year
Contact: see the website

This solicitation encourages innovative research to enhance the quality of measurements of dietary intake and physical activity. Applications submitted under this FOA may include development of novel assessment approaches; better methods to evaluate instruments; assessment tools for culturally diverse populations or various age groups, including older adults; improved technology or applications of existing technology; statistical methods to assess or correct for measurement errors or biases, methods to investigate the multidimensionality of diet and physical activity behavior through pattern analysis; or integrated measurement of diet and physical activity along with the environmental context of such behaviors.
Award: Expected direct cost amounts for individual awards range from $200,000 to $650,000.
Contact: see the website

Award: the combined budget for direct costs for the two-year companion project period may not exceed $275,000. No more than $200,000 may be requested in any single year.
Contact: see the announcement