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The 9th Annual Women's Health and the Environment Conference (2005)

2005 marked our ninth national conference on Women's Health and the Environment. Our 2005 theme: Are We Living in a Chemical Stew?

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Please click here to download a brochure from the 2005 conference.


Opening Remarks

Keynote Speaker

  • Sandra Steingraber, Keynote address
  • This year's conference also featured:
    • Sandra Steingraber, PhD, Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Ithaca College
      Author, Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment
    • William McDonough, FAIA, Founding Partner,
      William McDonough + Partners
    • Lynn Goldman, MD, MPH, Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
      Chair, Interdepartmental Program on Applied Public Health
      Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
    • Lovell A. Jones, PhD, Director, Center for Research on Minority Health
      Professor, Departments of Gynecologic Oncology and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
      University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center
    • Michele Marcus, PhD, Associate Professor of Epidemiology,
      Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
    • JoAnn E. Manson, MD, DrPH, Chief,
      Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital Professor of Medicine and the Elizabeth F. Brigham Professor of Women's Health, Harvard Medical School
    • Julia Brody, PhD, Executive Director,
      Silent Spring Institute
    • Kaye Gosline, Director,
      Contract Fibers, Solutia, Inc.
    • Horst M. Rechelbacher, Philanthropist-Ecopreneur,
      Intelligent Nutrients, HMR Foundation, HMR Studios, HMR Galleries
    • Jane Houlihan, Vice President for Research,
      Environmental Working Group
    • Steve Curwood, Executive Producer and Host,
      "Living on Earth"
    • Douglas Fischer, Environmental Reporter,
      Oakland Tribune
    • Richard Joseph Jackson, MD, MPH, Adjunct Professor,
      University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health
      Link to the CDC biomonitoring report referenced in Dr. Jackson's Presentation
      www.cdc.gov/exposurereport/
    • Liz Brunner, Co-Anchor,
      NewsCenter5


 

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