AGENDA PROGRAM as PDF
Thursday and Friday, April 2 and 3, 2009
American Museum of Natural History
New York City
Click on the "MP3 Audio" links below to hear the talks.
8:30 SESSION I
SETTING THE STAGE: THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT OF HEALTH
Kaufmann Theater
This opening session is designed to present the broad conceptual framework for the symposium. Speakers will discuss the multiple relationships between health and the environment, introduce the concept of the global environmental burden of disease and its implications, outline the necessity for and difficulties in designing policies that benefit both health and the environment and present genomics technology and evolutionary biology as important tools in our understanding of the environmental context of health.
Session Moderator: Eleanor J. Sterling, Director, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, US (MP3 Audio)
Abstract | Bio
Keynote Presentation
ENVIRONMENTAL BURDEN OF DISEASE: ACTING TO REDUCE CURRENT AND EMERGING THREATS (MP3 Audio)
Carlos Corvalán, Senior Advisor, Sustainable Development and Environmental Health, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization (WHO), Brasilia, Brazil
Abstract | Bio
Keynote Presentation
THE ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN HEALTH: THE NEED TO PADDLE UPSTREAM (MP3 Audio)
Howard Frumkin, Director, National Center for Environmental Health, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, US
Abstract | Bio
Keynote Presentation
EVIDENCE-BASED POLICIES FOR GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH RISKS (MP3 Audio)
Majid Ezzati, Associate Professor of International Health, Department of Global Health and Population,
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
Abstract | Bio
Keynote Presentation:
HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN THE AGE OF GENOMICS (MP3 Audio)
Jane Carlton, Director of Genomics and Associate Professor of Medical Parasitology, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, US
Abstract | Bio
REMARKS
Ellen V. Futter, President, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, US (MP3 Audio)
and Howard P. Milstein, Chair, President and CEO, New York Private Bank & Trust, New York, New York, US (MP3 Audio)
10:45 Coffee Break, Hall of Northwest Coast Indians
11:15 SESSION II
UNDERSTANDING COMPLEXITY: MULTIPLE AND INTERACTING STRESSORS
Kaufmann Theater
This session will highlight that understanding the relationship between health and the environment necessarily entails looking at multiple drivers acting at the same time over human populations and the ecosystems that surround them. Speakers will discuss the impacts of climate change on wildlife ecology and zoonotic disease, the health effects of globalization and the multiple impacts of climate change on human health, with a focus on indigenous populations in Australia as a case study.
Session Moderator: Felicity Arengo, Associate Director, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History, New York City, New York, US (MP3 Audio)
Abstract | Bio
CLIMATE IMPACTS ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S HEALTH AND WELL-BEING (MP3 Audio)
Donna Green, Research Fellow
, Climate Change Research Centre
, University of New South Wales
, Australia
Abstract | Bio
GLOBALISATION AND HUMAN HEALTH: SUSTAINABLE HEALTH IN A CHANGING WORLD (MP3 Audio)
Pim Martens, Director, International Centre for Integrated Assessment and Sustainable Development, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Abstract | Bio
HUMAN HEALTH IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE: INSIGHTS FROM THE WILD (MP3 Audio)
Camille Parmesan, Associate Professor, Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, US
Abstract | Bio
12:30Lunch Break, Milstein Hall of Ocean Life
2:00 SESSION III
A BALANCING ACT: DECISION MAKING, TRADE-OFFS, AND MUTUAL BENEFITS FOR HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Kaufmann Theater
Speakers will discuss, the tradeoffs and choices necessary when implementing clean air policies and the role of biodiversity and indigenous knowledge in food security, nutrition and clinical health care., and an example of robust decision-making protocols. The panel discussion to follow will allow presenters to discuss additional areas in which co-benefits are necessary and possible, including urban planning, our relationship with the oceans and the links between wildlife and human health.
Session Moderator: Susan Perkins, Assistant Curator, Invertebrate Zoology and Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York City, New York, US (MP3 Audio)
Introduction/Announcements
Abstract | Bio
Keynote Presentation
BIODIVERSITY, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND HEALTH (MP3 Audio)
Andrew P. Dobson, Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, US
Abstract | Bio
ETHNOMEDICAL SYSTEMS, BIODIVERSITY AND PRIMARY HEALTH CARE IN MICRONESIA (MP3 Audio)
Michael J. Balick, Vice President for Botanical Science, Director and Philecology Curator, Institute of Economic Botany, The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York, US
Abstract | Bio
AIR POLLUTION, CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN HEALTH: IMPACTS AND OPPORTUNITIES (MP3 Audio)
Patrick L. Kinney, Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, US
Abstract | Bio
BIODIVERSITY FOR NUTRITION AND HEALTH: REVERSING THE SIMPLIFICATION OF DIETS AND ECOSYSTEMS (MP3 Audio)
Pablo B. Eyzaguirre, Senior Scientist, Anthropology and Socioeconomics, Bioversity International, Rome, Italy
Abstract | Bio
ON PRIORITIZING RISK-REDUCING STRATEGIES IN A DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT (MP3 Audio)
Gary W. Yohe, Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, and Visiting Professor of Economics, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, US
Abstract | Bio
4:00 Coffee Break, Hall of Northwest Coast Indians
4:30 SESSION III PANEL DISCUSSION (MP3 Audio)
PANELISTS
Lora Fleming, Professor, Departments of Epidemiology & Public Health and Marine Biology & Fisheries, Miller School of Medicine and Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Miami, Florida, US
Abstract | Bio
Pim Martens, Director, International Centre for Integrated Assessment and Sustainable Development, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Abstract | Bio
Kent H. Redford, Director, Wildlife Conservation Society Institute, and Vice President, Conservation Strategy, Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, New York, US
Abstract | Bio
William C. Sullivan, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director of the Environmental Council, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, US
Abstract | Bio
MODERATOR
Nora Bynum, Project Director, Network of Conservation Educators and Practitioners (NCEP), and Associate Director for Capacity Development, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, US
Abstract | Bio
5:15 ADJOURN TO POSTER SESSION
Milstein Hall of Ocean Life
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5:15 – 7:00
THE 2009 MACK LIPKIN MAN AND NATURE SERIES POSTER SESSION AND RECEPTION
Milstein Hall of Ocean Life
7:00 – 8:30
THE 2009 MACK LIPKIN MAN AND NATURE SERIES PANEL DISCUSSION (MP3 Audio)
IT TAKES A PLANET: CONNECTING THE HEALTH OF PEOPLE AND NATURE
LeFrak Theater
A discussion on the interconnectedness of human health and the environment—and our ability to respond to crises in both areas.
INTRODUCTION
Michael J. Novacek, Senior Vice President and Provost of Science, American Museum of Natural History, New York City, New York, US
Abstract | Bio
PANELISTS
Peter Daszak, President, Wildlife Trust, and Executive Director, Consortium for Conservation Medicine, New York City, New York, US
Abstract | Bio
Walter Mugdan, Director, Emergency and Remedial Response Division U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 2, New York, New York, US
Abstract | Bio
Peggy M. Shepard, Executive Director, West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc. (WE ACT), New York, New York, US
Abstract | Bio
MODERATOR
Julie Burstein, Executive Producer, “Studio 360,” Public Radio International and WNYC, New York City, New York, US
Abstract | Bio
The Mack Lipkin Man and Nature Series was established in honor of Dr. Mack Lipkin, Sr., by his many friends and admirers. Dr. Lipkin was a physician who was a gentle and powerful force towards advancing the most humane and caring practices of medicine. The Museum is proud to welcome Peggy Shepard and Peter Daszak as the 2009 Mack Lipkin Man and Nature Series Fellows.
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Friday, April 3, 2009
9:00 SESSION IV
PATHOGENS AND EVOLUTION
Kaufmann Theater
This session will emphasize the importance of evolutionary theory, molecular techniques and genomics technology in our understanding of the relationship between hosts and pathogens.
Session Moderator: George Amato, Director, Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, US (MP3 Audio)
Abstract | Bio
EXPECTING THE UNEXPECTED IN DISEASE EMERGENCE (MP3 Audio)
Peter Hudson, Director of Life Sciences, The Willaman Chair of Biology, Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, US
Abstract | Bio
ECOLOGY AND MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY OF HUMAN-PRIMATE DISEASE TRANSMISSION IN WESTERN UGANDA (MP3 Audio)
Tony L. Goldberg, Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, US
Abstract | Bio
PHYLODYNAMICS: INTEGRATING THE EVOLUTIONARY AND ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE (MP3 Audio)
Oliver G. Pybus, Royal Society University Research Fellow, University Lecturer (elect) in Evolutionary Biology, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Abstract | Bio
10:15 Coffee Break, Hall of Northwest Coast Indians
10:50 GENOMIC AND METAGENOMIC APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF PATHOGEN GENOMES AND THEIR EVOLUTION
(MP3 Audio)
Karen E. Nelson, Director of Human Microbiology and Metagenomics, Department of Human Genomic Medicine, The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, US
Abstract | Bio
HELICOBACTER PYLORI, A RESIDENT OF THE HUMAN GASTRIC MICRO-ENVIRONMENT THAT BOTH CAUSES AND PROTECTS AGAINST DISEASE (MP3 Audio)
Martin J. Blaser, Frederick H. King Professor of Internal Medicine, and Chair, Department of Medicine, and Professor of Microbiology, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, New York, US
Abstract | Bio
SESSION IV PANEL DISCUSSION (MP3 Audio)
PANELISTS
Martin J. Blaser, Frederick H. King Professor of Internal Medicine, Chair, Department of Medicine, and Professor of Microbiology, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, New York, US
Abstract | Bio
Rob DeSalle, Curator, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, US
Abstract | Bio
Tony L. Goldberg, Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, US
Abstract | Bio
Karen E. Nelson, Director of Human Microbiology and Metagenomics, Department of Human Genomic Medicine, The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, US
Abstract | Bio
Oliver G. Pybus, Royal Society University Research Fellow, University Lecturer (elect) in Evolutionary Biology, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Abstract | Bio
MODERATOR
George Amato, Director, Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, US
Abstract | Bio
12:30Lunch Break, Milstein Hall of Ocean Life
2:00 SESSION V
LOOKING AHEAD: DATA GAPS AND RESEARCH NEEDS
Kaufmann Theater
This panel will address data gaps and limitations of current approaches, as a way to suggest areas of potential interest to students and researchers in directing future research efforts and data sharing systems.
Session Moderator: Andrés Gómez, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, US
Abstract | Bio
SESSION V PANEL DISCUSSION (MP3 Audio)
PANELISTS
Carlos Corvalán, Senior Advisor, Sustainable Development and Environmental Health, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization (WHO), Brasilia, Brazil
Abstract | Bio
Pablo B. Eyzaguirre, Senior Scientist, Anthropology and Socioeconomics, Bioversity International Diversity for Livelihoods Programme, Rome, Italy
Abstract | Bio
Marc Levy, Deputy Director and Associate Director for Science Applications, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University, New York, New York, US
Abstract | Bio
Camille Parmesan, Associate Professor, Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, US
Abstract | Bio
UNDERSTANDING THE LINKS BETWEEN HUMAN HEALTH AND THE OCEANS (MP3 Audio)
Lora Fleming, Professor, Departments of Epidemiology & Public Health and Marine Biology & Fisheries, Miller School of Medicine and Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric, Sciences, Miami, Florida, US
Abstract | Bio
3:15Coffee Break, Hall of Northwest Coast Indians
3:45 SESSION VI
THE WAY FORWARD: PARTNERSHIPS, ALLIANCES, AND INNOVATION
Kaufmann Theater
This panel will deal with the importance of forging partnerships among disciplines, and including the biomedical sciences, ecology, and public policy with local communities, in understanding the complex interactions between health and the environment and designing public health policy.
Session Moderator: Thomas E. Lovejoy, Biodiversity Chair, The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, Washington, DC, US
Abstract | Bio
FORGING NEW CONNECTIONS AMONG ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCHOLARS (MP3 Audio)
William C. Sullivan, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director of the Environmental Council, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, US
Abstract | Bio
4:10 SESSION VI PANEL DISCUSSION (MP3 Audio)
THE WAY FORWARD: PARTNERSHIPS, ALLIANCES, AND INNOVATION
PANELISTS
Jeffrey M. Blander, Co-leader, Technology Innovation Working Group, Harvard Initiative for Global Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
Abstract | Bio
Donna Green, Research Fellow
, Climate Change Research Centre
, University of New South Wales
, Australia
Abstract | Bio
Amy Luers, Program Manager, Environment & Vulnerability Mapping, Predict and Prevent, Google.org, Mountain View, California, US
Abstract | Bio
Jonathan Patz, Professor of Environmental Studies & Population Health Sciences, and Director, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, US
Abstract | Bio
CLOSING REMARKS (MP3 Audio)
5:15CONFERENCE ADJOURNS