Healthy People Global Goods

Goods Movement: Public Health Implications for the Mid Atlantic

September  23, 2011

University of Pennsylvania - Houston Hall - Bodek Lounge

Philadelphia, PA 

Presentations

Goods Movement and the Public Health Agenda

Goods Movement Overview – Joseph Minott, Esq., Executive Director, Clean Air Council

Transportation Network Overview – Ted Dahlberg, Senior Planner, DVRPC

Impact on the Labor Community - Barbara Rahke, Director, PHILAPOSH

Environmental Inequality in Philadelphia - Diane M. Sicotte, PhD, Associate Professor of Sociology, Drexel

Research: Making the Connection between Goods Movement and Environmental Disease:

Goods Movement and Pediatric Asthma – Stephen J. McGeady, MD, Division Chief, Pediatric Allergy/Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, Alfred DuPont Hospital for Children

Statistical Modeling of Air Pollution, Acute/Chronic Exposures in Humans and Health Impact – Jeff Yanosky, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology, Penn State Hershey College of Medicine

Diesel Pollution and Cancer Risks – Kevin Stewart, Director of Environmental Health, American Lung Association 

Goods Movement in the Northeast

Projections, Trends, and Impacts - James J. Corbett, PhD, Professor, Marine Policy, University of Delaware  

Lunch Keynote

West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project: Community Involvement and Participatory Research – Brian Beveridge, Co-Director, West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project

Goods Movement and Transportation Planning from a Public Health Perspective

Transportation and Climate Change - Valerie Gray, Planning Supervisor, DNREC Division of Air & Waste Management

EPA Drayage Truck Replacement Program - Catherine Magliochetti, MES, Chemical Engineer, Air Protection Division, EPA Region III

Clean Vehicles and Fuels Project – Rich Kassel, Senior Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council

Policy solutions, Research Methodologies

Health Impact Assessments – Clint Randall, Healthy Communities Coordinator, City of Philadelphia Department of Public Health & Philadelphia City Planning Commission

Community Economic Development - Laura Wolf-Powers, PhD, Assistant Professor, City and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania School of Design

Community Benefits Agreements - Adam Cutler, Esq., Director, Public Health and Environmental Justice Clinic, Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia

This conference is approved for 6.25 AICP CM Credits by the PA Chapter of APA.
 

Conference Overview

Speakers

Agenda and Program

For more information, contact Katie Edwards at 215-567-4004, ext. 102 or kedwards [at] cleanair.org.