The Atrium Hall

Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center

1300 Pennsylvania Ave, NW.

Washington, D.C.  2004          

8:30 a.m.         Welcome and Opening Remarks

The Honorable Paul G. Rogers, J.D., Roundtable Chair, Partner, Hogan and Hartson                   

8:40 a.m.         Workshop Overview

Lynn Goldman, M.D., M.P.H., Roundtable Vice-Chair,  Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health    

8:55 a.m.            Environmental Concerns and Policies During Disasters

Stephen Johnson, Administrator, U.S. EPA

9:15 a.m.         Hurricane Katrina:  Challenges and Needs for Health in New Orleans

Kevin Stephens, M.D., J.D., Director of Health, New Orleans Health Department

9:25 a.m.           Overview of Hurricane Katrina: Challenges for the Community

Jimmy Guidry, M.D., State Health Officer and Medical Director, Louisiana

9:45 a.m.           Break

Session I: Nature and Extent of Environmental Exposures

Moderator:     Georges Benjamin, Executive Director, American Public Health Association

10:15 a.m.         Short- and Long-Term Environmental Health Concerns in the Gulf Coast Region

Howard Frumkin,  M.D., M.P.H., Dr.P.H., Director, National Center of Environmental Health/ Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

10:35 a.m.         Protecting the Workers During Clean-Up and Rebuilding

 Max Kiefer, Associate Director, Emergency Preparedness, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

10:55 a.m.         Clean-up, Exposure Guidelines and Environmental Policy During Disasters: Lessons Taken from the Aftermath of the WTC

 Paul Lioy, Ph.D., Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine, Rutgers University

11:15 a.m.         Panel Discussion with Speakers from the Session

What are the on-going needs and priorities based on the current assessments?

How is this information being coordinate across agencies?

How is input from the private sector and community groups being engaged?

What strategies need to be implemented as information continues to evolve?

Where can we coordination be improved?

11:35 a.m.         Audience Discussion (Q & A with Speakers from the Session)

12:00 p.m.         Lunch

Session II: Health Monitoring, Assessment, and Response

Moderator:     Donald Mattison, M.D., Senior Advisor to the Directors of NICHD and CRMC, National Institutes of Health

1:00 p.m.           Rapid assessment for identification, management and prevention of Environmentally Related Disease

Kellogg Schwab, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins, Bloomberg School of Public Health

1:25 p.m.           Medical Survillence

David C. Goff, Jr. M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Public Health Sciences and Internal Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine

1:45 p.m.           Research and Coordination Through a Local Academic-Public-Private Network

John McLachlan, Ph.D., Celia Scott and Albert J. Weatherhead, III Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies, Professor of Pharmacology and Director, Center for Bioenvironmental Research, Tulane and Xavier Universities

2:05 p.m.           Engaging the Community

Sandral Hullett, M.D., M.P.H., CEO, Jefferson Health System

2:25 p.m.         Ensuring Public Health in the Right of Return

Monique Harden, J.D., Co-Director & Attorney, Advocates for Environmental Human Rights

2:35 p.m.           Panel Discussion with Speakers from the Session

What are the health priorities (for monitoring, prevention)?

For the scientific community, where can additional research strategies help inform our current state of knowledge?

How can we make the scientific process during disaster recovery more transparent?

How can the scientific community better coordinate across agencies and groups?

How can what we discussed here today help to inform our preparation for future assessment and monitoring?

2:50 p.m.           Audience Discussion (Q&A with Speakers from the Session)

3:15 p.m.           Break

Session III: Preparing for the Future: Science, Public Health Leadership, and Infrastructure

 Moderator: Samuel Wilson, M.D., Deputy Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health

3:35 p.m.           Environmental Health Exposures:  Missing Linkages and Research Needs

Thomas Burke, Ph.D., M.PH, Professor, Co-Director Risk Sciences and Public Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

4:05 p.m.           Susceptible Populations- Who, What, Why: Implications for evidence- based science and  public health practice

Maureen Lichtveld, M.D., M.P.H., Professor and Chair,Freeport MacMoRan Chair of Environmental Policy, Tulane University, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Department of Environmental Health Sciences

4: 25 p.m.          What are the Environmental and Biological Assessment Tools that We Have or Need to Develop to Provide Accurate Information

Gilbert Omenn, M.D., Professor of Internal Medicine, Human Genetics, and Public Health

University of Michigan

4:45 p.m.           What are the Social and Ethical Issues for Implementing Individual Monitoring?

Dianne Quigley, Syracuse University

5:05 p.m.          Panel Discussion with Speakers from the Session

What are the priorities for improving our scientific knowledge of exposure monitoring?

What are the challenges for developing these tools?

What are short-term and long-term strategies for developing and implementing these research tools into practice?

What are the challenges facing the scientific community as technologies move forward to give more accurate, personal exposure information?

How can we overcome these challenges?

5: 25 p.m.         Audience Discussion (Q&A with Speakers from the Session)

Session IV: A Vision for the Future

5:45 p.m.           A Vision for the Future: Rebuilding the Gulf Coast

Lynn Goldman, M.D., M.P.H., Roundtable Vice-Chair, Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

6:10 p.m.           Adjourn