Educational Activities of Environment Section at APHA Annual Meeting

描述（由申请人提供）：项目概述。第138届美国公共卫生协会（APHA）年会和博览会将于11月6日至10日在科罗拉多州丹佛市举行。今年会议的主题是“社会正义：公共卫生的当务之急”，预计将有1.2万人出席。虽然APHA是一个大型组织，但它依靠其27个部门来计划其大部分会议和特别活动。环境署环境科在其成立99周年之际，将其年度会议议程的重点放在环境公共卫生和社会正义问题上，特别是社会不公正如何对处境不利、脆弱和得不到充分服务的人口造成不利的环境条件和后果。它呼吁全体会议的提案和摘要侧重于社会正义的总主题，以及本科对与环境公共卫生有关的社会正义问题的强调。最终，本科努力为代表院士、卫生专业人员、社区成员和学生，特别是代表人数不足群体的学生的不同听众提供各种各样的会议、海报、全体会议和特别活动。环境科在第138届环境卫生协会年会上的教育活动目标如下：1)向与会者宣传与社会正义有关的环境公共卫生问题的研究；2)通过项目活动，特别是科学家和社区成员可以分享想法和讨论共同目标的会议，增加社区团体、卫生专业人员和学者之间的合作；3)教育学生，特别是那些来自服务不足和少数群体社区的学生，关于社会正义、环境正义和环境健康，鼓励他们从事公共卫生研究和实践的职业；4)提供一个论坛，传播有关社会正义、环境正义和环境健康的研究成果。环境科年会的议程将使与会者受益匪浅，从有机会与其他社区团体和环境卫生科学家建立联系的社区成员，到有能力与潜在导师建立联系的学生，以及将了解基于社区的环境正义倡议的研究人员。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Project Summary. The138th Annual Meeting and Exposition of the American Public Health Association (APHA) will be held from November 6 - 10 in Denver, Colorado. The theme for this year's conference, with an anticipated 12,000 in attendance, is Social Justice: A Public Health Imperative. While the APHA is a large organization, it relies on its 27 sections to plan most of its conference sessions and special events. The Environment Section of the APHA, in its 99th year, is focusing its annual meeting agenda on environmental public health and social justice issues, particularly how social injustice can lead to negative environmental conditions and outcomes for disadvantaged, vulnerable, and underserved populations. Its call for full session proposals and abstracts focused on the overall theme of social justice, and on the Section's emphasis on social justice issues as related to environmental public health. Ultimately the Section strives to offer a wide variety of sessions, posters, plenary sessions, and special events to a diverse audience, representing academicians, health professionals, community members, and students, especially those from underrepresented groups. The Environment Section has the following aims for its educational activities at the 138th APHA Annual Meeting: 1)to educate conference participants about research on environmental public health issues related to social justice; 2)to increase collaborations between community groups, health professionals, and academicians through its program activities, especially sessions in which scientists and community members can share ideas and discuss common goals; 3)to educate students, especially those from underserved and minority communities, about social justice, environmental justice, and environmental health, encouraging them to pursue careers in public health research and practice and 4) to provide a forum for dissemination of results about research in social justice, environmental justice, and environmental health. The Environment Section's agenda for the Annual Meeting will benefit participants greatly, from community members who will have the opportunity to network with other community groups and with environmental health scientists, to students who will have the ability to connect with potential mentors, and to researchers who will learn about community- based environmental justice initiatives. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The program for the Environment Section at the 2010 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting will greatly benefit participants, particularly community members and students from underserved populations, who will have the opportunity to learn about community-driven efforts to address environmental justice and health issues; community-university partnerships for environmental health; how to build community capacity to address environmental health and justice issues; and best practices associated with effective community based participatory research efforts.