[WardFive] Dumping on Ward 5 : Environmental Justice and Environmental Health Disparities Symposium, December 1st, at the University of Maryland-College Park

Good Morning,

Many will agree that current zoning is one main reason
Ward 5 is dumped on so much. Communities in our Ward and all over the country continue to organize to push back on decisions that lead to an adverse impact on their health and where they live.

The Environmental Justice and Environmental Health Disparities Symposium, December 1st, at the University of Maryland-College Park will bring together communities, researchers and scientist to look at problems and come up with solutions on how race and where you live can adversely impact your health. Several areas that might be of interest to DC communities include the following:
- The Use of Health Impact Assessments (HIA) to Address Negative Land Use Impacts and Improve
Community Sustainability and Quality of Life
- Toxic Chemicals, Vulnerable Populations and Risk
- Traffic
- Chesapeake Bay (Storm Water Run Off)

Never before has there been an opportunity for DC and Maryland to join forces with Johns Hopkins, Univ. of Md, EPA, etc., to get help with addressing health and environmental related issues in our communities.

Hope folk get a chance to attend and use this meeting as a resource to get to solutions! Information from this symposium will provide another tool in the toolbox to help develop and maintain healthy communities.

Check out the attached agenda.



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>From: Walker <ajw1@starpower.net>
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>To: Walker <ajw1@starpower.net>
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>> Subject: Environmental Justice and
>> Environmental Health Disparities Symposium, December
>> 1st, at the University of Maryland-College Park
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>> The Maryland
>> Institute for Applied Environmental Health and the
>> Program on Community Engagement, Environmental
>> Justice and Health (CEEJH) are pleased to announce
>> the "First Annual Symposium on Environmental Justice
>> and Environmental Health Disparities in Maryland and
>> Washington, DC". The Symposium will be held on
>> Saturday December 1, 2012, 9:00AM to 4:00PM at the
>> Adele H. Stamp Student Union Building at University
>> of Maryland, College Park, MD.
>>
>> This symposium will serve as a forum for the
>> exchange of ideas among community members,
>> researchers, public health practitioners,
>> policymakers, students, and advocates on
>> environmental justice and health issues. The goal of
>> this symposium to establish and sustain a community
>> engaged research enterprise on critical
>> environmental health disparities and environmental
>> justice issues, to raise the visibility of racial
>> and ethnic environmental health disparities and
>> feasible solutions with Marylanders, DC residents,
>> and regional stakeholders, and facilitate action for
>> change. Workshop topics include: 1) Environmental
>> justice and water issues in the Chesapeake Bay; 2)
>> Air pollution, traffic, asthma; 3) Food injustice
>> and health disparities in the region; 4) Regional
>> need for community capacity-building and creation of
>> a community-based EJ network, among other diverse
>> topics.
>>
>> This meeting is sponsored by the Maryland Institute
>> for Applied Environmental Health (MIAEH) Community
>> Engagement, Environmental Justice, and Health
>> (CEEJH) Group, Maryland Environmental Health Network
>> (MEHN), Environmental Integrity Project (EIP),
>> Children's Environmental Health Network (CEHN),
>> Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF),
>> Maryland Population Research Center, United States
>> Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), State of
>> Maryland, Office of Minority Health, Anacostia
>> Watershed Society, Clarice Smith Performing Arts
>> Center, and the Hoff Funding Board.
>>
>> Please share the save the date announcement with
>> your colleagues, networks, and community
>> stakeholders who would like to attend or may be
>> interested in speaking at the event. To register,
>> please see following link:
>> http://www.ceejh.org/symposium. There are
>> scholarships available to community advocates and
>> residents.
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Sacoby Wilson, PhD, MS
>> Assistant Professor
>> Director, Program on Community Engagement,
>> Environmental Justice, and Health (CEEJH)
>> Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health
>> School of Public Health
>> University of Maryland-College Park
>> .
>>
>>

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