Research DayINSIGHTS ALONG THE PATH TO SUSTAINABILITY
2005 | Schedule of Presentations
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD / Feinstone Hall Wednesday, November 30, 2005 / 1:30 – 5:30 PM
Click on titles for summaries and presenter biographies.  WELCOME - Robert S. Lawrence, MD, Director, Center for a Livable Future EXPOSURE, DIETARY AND CONSUMPTION ISSUES 1:35-2:55  LYNN R. GOLDMAN, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, JHSPH JULIE HERBTSMAN, ScM, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Epidemiology(Presenter) Environmental Exposures to Polybrominated Diphenyl Oxides In Food, Thyroid Hormone Status and Birth Weight For Gestational Age (Update) ROLF U. HALDEN, PhD, PE, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, JHSPH Effect of Lifestyle on Mother/Infant Exposure to Ubiquitous Pollutants AMY E. PETERSON, DVM, Research Fellow, Department of Epidemiology, JHSPH (Presenter) NATHAN D. WOLFE, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, JHSPH; JH Cameroon Project Forest Food: The Health of Wild and Domestic Food Animals in Central African Forests MIA A. PAPAS, MS, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Epidemiology, JHSPH (Presenter) KATHY J. HELZLSOUER, MD, MHS, Professor, Department of Epidemiology, JHSPH Social Environmental Influences of Dietary Consumption and the Impact on Obesity During Adolescence NICOLE CARDELLO DEZIEL, MHS, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, JHSPH Meat Consumption and Cancer: Evaluation of Methods to Assess Dietary Exposure to Heterocyclic Amines and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE AND THE ROLE OF INDUSTRIAL ANIMAL PRACTICES 2:55-3:50  LANCE B. PRICE, MS, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, JHSPH Integron-Associated Antimicrobial Resistance on Commercial Poultry Products
KELLOGG J. SCHWAB, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, JHSPH Genetic Characterization of Antibiotic-resistant Bacterial Pathogens Detected in Air, Water and Lagoon Samples Collected at a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation AMIRA A. ROESS, MPH, Doctoral Candidate, Department of International Health, JHSPH Antimicrobial Resistance in Farm Animals in Rural Bangladesh and the Impact on Human Carriage of Resistant Bacteria
BREAK 3:55 – 4:10
FARMING PRACTICES AND HUMAN HEALTH 4:10- 4:50  JAY P. GRAHAM, MBA, MPH, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, JHSPH The Impact of Poultry Litter as Fertilizer on the Bacteriological Quality of Leafy Vegetables
ROLF U. HALDEN, PhD, PE, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, JHSPH Municipal Sludge Disposal and Sustainable Agriculture: A Pilot Study Showcasing the Challenge of Combining the Two
COMMUNITY AND OCCUPATIONAL IMPACTS OF INDUSTRIAL ANIMAL PRODUCTION 4:40 – 5:20  RONI A. NEFF, ScM, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Health Policy and Management, JHSPH The Geography of Occupational Injury and Illness in the Meat Products Industries: Economic, Demographic, Social, and Political Risk Factors
ELLEN K. SILBERGELD, PhD, Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, JHSPH Ecological and Community Health Impacts of Industrial Food Animal Production Practices (Continuation of project Community Health Risks of Agricultural; Antibiotic Use in the Poultry Industry) WRAP UP and NEXT STEPS 5:20 – 5:30
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