Clearing the Air: Energy Practices & Human Health
Jointly sponsored by the Massachusetts Medical Society and the
Harvard School of Public Health Division of Public Health
Practice
Masssachusetts Medical Society Headquarters, Waltham,
MA
| 8:00 a.m. | Welcome(4 pages)
Mario E. Motta, MD
President, Massachusetts Medical Society See also:
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Impact (30 pages)
Mario Motta, MD
Gregory N. Connolly,
DMD
Professor of the Practice of Public Health
Acting Director, Division of Public Health Practice
Harvard School of Public Health
Moderator: Paul Biddinger, MD
Associate Director, Harvard School of Public Health Center for
Public Health Preparedness
Vice Chair, MMS Committee on Public Health
Chair, MMS Committee on Preparedness |
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| 8:30 a.m. | The Health Effects of
Combustion (23 pages)
David Christiani, MD
Director, Harvard Education and Research Center for
Occupational Safety and Health |
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| 9:05 a.m. | Government Initiatives to
Promote Clean Air
Curt Spalding
Regional Administrator, EPA-New England |
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| 9:45 a.m. | Health Implications of Energy Policy (22 pages)
Douglas Dockery, ScD
Director, Harvard-NIEHS Center for Environmental Health
Chair, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public
Health |
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| 10:35 a.m. | Power Plants & Human Health (10 pages)
Alan Nogee
Director of Climate and Energy Strategy and Policy, Climate and
Energy Program
Union of Concerned Scientists |
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| 11:05 a.m. | Wind Turbines: Do They Affect Our
Health? (11 pages)
Robert J. McCunney, MD
Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Biological Engineering |
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| 11:20 a.m. | Saving Energy in the Healthcare
Environment (12 pages)
Marc Margulies
Principal, Margulies Perruzzi Architects |
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| 11:35 a.m. | Discussion: Energy Solutions
for Health
Call to Action
Paul Biddinger, MD |
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| 12:30 p.m. | Adjourn |
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