Symposium Sponsored by: National Center For Environmental Research
Title: Strengthening Environmental Justice Research and Decision Making: A Symposium on the Science of Disproportionate Environmental Health Impacts
Date: March 17 – 19, 2010
Location: Walter E. Washington Convention Center801 Mount Vernon Place, NWWashington, DC 20001
Purpose: The US EPA Administrator, Lisa Jackson, has made the inclusion of environmental justice principles in all U.S. EPA actions a priority.
This Symposium will serve as a platform to stimulate innovative and bold thinking, and foster discussions, about critical topics and approaches to achieve this goal. Please join us at a Symposium to explore opportunities to better assess and address environmental justice in environmental policy and regulatory decision making. Multiple factors including social, political, psychosocial, economic, physical, chemical and biological determinants contribute to disproportionate human health or environmental impacts. Therefore, diverse expertise and multidisciplinary approaches that incorporate the perspectives of impacted communities and populations are necessary to better inform environmental health policy.
Participants from diverse backgrounds are invited, including researchers, academics, policy-makers, non-governmental organization representatives, government officials (e.g. local, regional, national, tribal, international), lay experts, and students.
The Symposium is open and free to the public but space is limited.
Contact:
Devon Payne-Sturges (202) 343-9852
Onyemaechi Nweke (202) 566-2314
Tina Conley (202) 343-9829
Registration: Registration
Logistics: Meeting LocationHotel
Agenda: Agenda
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