Re: occ-env-med-l ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SUMMIT OCTOBER 19-20,...

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Sounds like the perfect opportunity for some of our Drs.and professionals to

share their work!!

Sue

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SUMMIT OCTOBER 19-20, 2007

CALL FOR RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS ON ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

North Carolina Environmental Justice Network

North Carolina's 9th Annual Community-Based Environmental Justice

Summit

will be held October 19-20, 2007 at the Historic linton Center

at

Bricks, Edgecombe County, NC. Community members, government

officials,

environmentalists, students and researchers will participate. The

Summit seeks to raise public awareness about environmental justice;

connect communities in need with technical resources; support and

encourage community-driven research; help communities and policy

makers

address problems of environmental injustice; and, bring about

positive

changes in public health and the environment by promoting social and

environmental justice.

This announcement is a call for research presentations on

environmental justice. We invite submissions that address

environmental justice

topics from any disciplinary perspective, including environmental

sciences, social sciences, humanities, law, journalism, public

health

and medicine. Researchers who have conducted community-driven or

community-based research are encouraged to present in collaboration

with

community groups. Research presentations (approximately 15 minutes

in

length) will be given at a plenary session on Friday afternoon,

October 19.

Please submit a title, author(s) and abstract (250 words or less) of

your research by Monday, Friday, September 7, 2007 to:

Steve Wing

Department of Epidemiology

School of Public Health, CB#7435

UNC

Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7435

919-966-7416

steve_wingunc (DOT) edu <mailto:steve_mailto:steve_>

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