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

Ward 5, DC residents, community leaders, and community stakeholders are encouraged to register, attend and engage in a dialogue among other community members, researchers, public health practitioners, policymakers, students, and advocates on environmental justice and health issues at the First Annual Environmental Justice and Health Symposium - Dec., 1, MD. Univ. This is a great opportunity to highlight issues in communities across DC and to seek solutions. Up until now there has been very little city-wide focus on environmental health disparities and environmental justice issues.

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Thanks.

Alice Walker

>
> Subject: Environmental Justice and
> Environmental Health Disparities Symposium, December
> 1st, at the University of Maryland-College Park
>
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>
> Hi,
>
> Please send this out. We have had limited
> registration so far. I really need your assistance
> getting registrants particularly community members
> to attend. Thanks,
>
>
> Hi,
> I am emailing you about a regional environmental
> justice and environmental health disparities
> symposium that I am organizing. 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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