Save the Date - New Paths Conference

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Dear Colleague,

We would appreciate your help in announcing the following upcoming

conference. Also, to assist us in tracking how the conference is

promoted, please let us know where you are posting it (website, email

list, listserve, newsletter, etc).

Thank you very much.

Sincerely,

Fenske, Director and Professor

Marcy Harrington, Manager

Pacific

Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center

University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine

Health and Safety in Western Agriculture - New

Paths

November 11-13, 2008

The Lodge at Suncadia, Cle Elum, Washington State

Conference Website and PDF Flyer: http://depts.washington.edu/pnash/2008conference/

Call for Abstracts - due July 31st

Join with participants

across the West to address new worker populations, research avenues,

and innovative approaches for the prevention of disease and injury in

agriculture:

Pesticide Exposure - children’s

health effects, risk factors for pesticide handlers: research findings

from the Washington State Cholinesterase Monitoring Program,

biomonitoring

Air Quality - pathways to

cardiovascular and neurological disease, exposures to bioaerosols

Ergonomics - dairy livestock, tree

fruit harvesting

Cultural Effectiveness in Research -

Hispanic, Vietnamese and Native American communities

Production Issues - labor policy,

biological threats, mechanization

This conference is brought to you by the four Western NIOSH

Agricultural Centers. For questions, please feel free to contact us at

206.616.1958 or pnash@....