2008 Annual Conference

The Alaska Environmental Health Association is pleased to announce that the 2008 AEHA Annual Conference will be held August 12-14 in the Yukon Conference Room of the ANTHC-DEHE building in Anchorage. Titled“Innovations in Environmental Health,” the focus of the conference will be on new technologies and methods within the field of environmental health. Join us for presentations, networking opportunities, and group sessions each day along with an evening social event filled with food, fun, families and an award ceremony! If you are planning on attending the conference, be sure to fill out a conference registration form. The AEHA Education Committee will be using the registration information for booking accommodations and planning social events. Keep in mind that the conference is available only to current AEHA members. Also, check out the preliminary conference agenda below:

AEHA 2008 Conference
Innovations in Environmental Health
August 12-14th, 2008ANTHC-DEHE Building Anchorage, AK
Sponsored by Underwriters Laboratory

Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Keynote Address by Bev Wooley, State of Alaska Director of Public Health
Nanotechnology: Impact on Food Safety
The BBAHC IGAP Experience
“Tool Time” Activity
EH Intern Presentations

Wednesday, August 13, 2008
NEHA Presentation by Dick Pantages, NEHA President
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Conformity Assessment and It’s Relationship to EH
EH Tabletop Exercise Part 1
Generations in the EH Workforce by David Riggs
Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute (EPHILI)
Evening Social at the Peanut Farm for Members & Guests

Thursday, August 14, 2008
Historical Perspective of Environmental Health in Alaska by Alan Dellapenna
Using GIS Technology in EH
EH Tabletop Exercise Part 2
Public Health Ethics and the Institutional Review Board
AEHA Business Meeting

NOTE: Cost of the conference is a current membership to AEHA. Click here for the AEHA member application. Click here for the Conference Registration Form.

The Editors would like to thank members of the Education & Training Committee for their diligent work planning the 2008 conference!