Co-sponsored by: Institute of Medicine, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, National Center for Environmental Health, CDC, Georgia Institute of Technology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH

Cyprus Room The Carter Center One Copenhill
453 Freedom Parkway
Atlanta, GA 30307

June 27, 2001

9:00 a.m. Welcome

  9:05 a.m. Opening
Dr. Joseph Lowery, Chairman, Georgia’s Coalition for the People’s Agenda

9:20 a.m. Rebuilding the Unity of Health and the Environment
Richard Jackson, M.D., M.P.H, Director, National Center for Environmental Health CDC

9:50 a.m. Panel I: The Natural Environment

Moderator: John Sibley, President, The Georgia Conservancy

Robert Kerr, Director, Pollution Prevention Assistance Division, Georgia Department of Natural Resources

Eugene Odum, Ph.D., Callaway Professor Emeritus, and Director Emeritus of Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia

Wayne Alexander, M.D., R. Bruce Logue Professor and Chairman of Medicine, Emory University

Respondents:

Matthew Kale, Upper Chattahochee Riverkeeper

Samuel H. Wilson, M.D., Deputy Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institute of Health

10:40 a.m.  Audience Participation

11:15 a.m.  Break

11:30 a.m.  Panel II: The Built Environment (Buildings, Roads, Transport, and Energy)

Moderator: Lynn Goldman, M.D., Professor, Johns Hopkins University, School of Public Health

Ricardo Martinez, M.D., Chief Executive Officer and President, Safety Intelligence Systems

Michael Kilgallon, Owner, The Pacific Group Charles Liotta, Ph.D., Vice Provost for Research, Dean of Graduate School, Georgia Institute of Technology

Charles Liotta, Ph.D., Vice Provost for Research, Dean of Graduate School Georgia Institute of Technology

Dennis Creech, Executive Director, Southface Energy Institute

Charles Goodman, Ph.D., Senior Vice President for Research and Environmental Affairs, Southern Company

Respondents:

Linda DiSantis, J.D., Corporate Compliance Manager, United Parcel Service

Lawrence Frank, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Georgia Tech

12:30 p.m.  Audience Discussion

1:00 p.m.  Lunch (provided for all participants)

12:00 p.m.  Afternoon Welcome
The Honorable Paul G. Rogers, J.D.,Chair, Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine

Jeffrey P. Koplan, M.D., M.P.H., Director, CDC

2:20 p.m.  Panel III: Social Environment: From Social Justice to Social Capital

Moderator: Baruch Fischhoff, Ph.D., Professor of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University

Elliott Sclar, Ph.D., Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, Columbia University Winsome Hawkins, Vice-President of Programs and Initiatives, The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, Inc.

Robert Bullard, Ph.D., Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center, Clark Atlanta University

3:10 p.m.  Audience Participation

3:30 p.m.  Summation
Howard Frumkin, M.D., M.P.H., Dr. P.H., Professor and Chair, Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

 4:00 p.m.  Adjourn