WVE Speaks at Environmental Health Conference
UCSF - CHE SUMMIT ON ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES TO REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND FERTILITY
January 28-30, 2007
UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center, San Francisco, CA
Program, registration and more info
~ Discover why environmental health science is critically relevant to reproductive and developmental health.
~ Join multidisciplinary stakeholders in a pioneering, national conference to explore and set new directions.
Preeminent researchers will present overviews of the science on environmental contaminant impacts on male and female reproductive health and fertility/pregnancy, including focus on:
~ Periconceptional/fetal origins of adult and pubertal disorders; and developmental health
~ Adult exposures of concern
~ Contaminants of concern
~ Gene-environment interactions
~ Critical research directions
Multidisciplinary topics include:
~ Translation of research data to the clinic, wider public health and policy, and disease prevention
~ Patient advocate and community health concerns
~ Integration with health professional education
~ Federal environmental reproductive health priorities
This summit is designed for clinical researchers and clinicians (in practice or in training); scientists; allied and public health professionals; policy makers, government; leaders from patient advocacy, women's health, community and worker health, environment, reproductive advocacy, and environmental justice; and environment/health funders.
Women's Voices for the Earth staff will be speaking on a panel at the conference on Tuesday, January 29 at 1:15pm entitled: "Reproductive Health Advocacy and Justice Meets Environmental Health and Justice". WVE will also be presenting a poster highlighting our grassroots organizing work to protect environmental and reproductive health.
- What
- Convention
- When
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28/01/2007: 07:45 AM
to
30/01/2007: 09:45 AM
- Where
- San Francisco