Research DayResearch Day 2008 audio files, in MP3 format, are available by section in five files. Listed below is an index of audio files by section with links to abstracts containing the presenters’ PowerPoint Presentations. Section #1 HEALTH IMPACTS OF FOOD AVAILABILITY AND ACCESS  1. Introduction by Robert S. Lawrence, MD, director, Center for a Livable Future 2. Availability of Healthy Foods in Baltimore Neighborhoods: Impact on Diet Quality and Body Mass Index
MANUEL FRANCO, MD, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Epidemiology 3. Food Availability and Changes in Weight in Metropolitan Cebu, Philippines (1983-2002)
ARANTXA COLCHERO, PhD, MS, National Institute of Public Health, Mexico 4. Question and answer period Section #2 HEALTH IMPACTS OF CONSUMPTION AND EXPOSURES
1. Meat Consumption and Cancer: Assessment of Dietary Exposure to Heterocyclic Amines andPolycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons?
NICOLE CARDELLO DEZIEL, PhD, MHS, Westat, Rockville, MD 2. Stable Carbon Isotope Signatures in Human Blood from 200 Individuals: A potential biochemical assay for the consumption of high fructose corn syrup?REBECCA A. KRAFT, Doctoral Student, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences 3. The Efficacy of Low-technology, Low-cost Water Filters in Removing Pathogens and PreventingDisease During Long-term Household Use?
KATHERINE WESTPHAL, MPH Student, Center for Refugee and Disaster Response 4. Cryptosporidium Exposure Associated with Crabbing within Urban Baltimore Watersheds?
CYNTHIA CHIOMA MCOLIVER, MPH, Doctoral Student, Department of Environmental Health Sciences 5. Comments by Dennis Kenney 6. Question and answer period Section #3 FOOD SECURITY IMPACTS OF AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES 1. A Pilot Comparison of Food Security and Agricultural Sustainability in Nepal: Adapters of Integrated Pest Management Versus Non-adapters?
AMIR POUDEL, Master’s Student, Environmental Science and Policy, Advanced Academic Program 2. Ram Pump Irrigation Systems in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa: Impacts on Food Security, Water Usage, and Subsistence Agriculture?
Maura Dwyer, MPH, Doctoral Student, Environmental Health Sciences 3. Question and answer period Section #4 PUBLIC HEALTH IMPLICATIONS OF INDUSTRIAL FOOD ANIMAL PRODUCTION 1.Environmental Pathways of Exposure to Antimicrobial Resistant Bacteria: The Role of Poultry Litter Disposal Practices?
JAY GRAHAM, PhD, Scientific Advisor, Center for a Livable Future 2. Tetracycline Transport Through Poultry Farm Soils and Aquifer Materials: Influence on BacterialTetracycline Resistance?
MARKUS HILPERT, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering 3. Animal Feed Components and the Impacts of Land-applying Manure on Soil Bacterial Biodiversity and Antibiotic Resistance?
AMY R. SAPKOTA, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, UMCP School of Public Health 4. The Community at Risk: Public Health Issues in Industrial Food Animal Production?
ELLEN K. SILBERGELD, PhD, Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences 5. Question and answer period Concluding remarks | 
