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EVENT NEWS RELEASE / March 10, 2009

Politics of Environmental Health Conference to Gather Health Professionals, Public Next Week

The Idaho Environmental Health and Idaho Public Health associations will jointly host the 2009 annual Education Conference March 18-20 at Boise State University.

The politics of environmental health and pharmaceutical safety will be the focus of the three-day conference, which will include discussions and presentations on water policy, urban pesticides, rabies management, ground water monitoring for pharmaceuticals and food safety, among others.

Doug Farquhar, program director of environmental health for the National Conference of State Legislatures, will be the keynote speaker.

Other presenters include: Toni Hardesty, director of the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality; Russ Duke, director of the Central District Health Department; Meredith Warren and Kathleen Turner of the Blaine County Water Quality Department; Dale Stephenson, director of Undergraduate Environmental and Occupational Health at Boise State; Bob Hays, Idaho Department of Agriculture; Leslie Tengelson, deputy state epidemiologist and Joel Kreisberg, executive director of the Teleosis Institute, among others. Student researchers also be presenting on Wednesday from 4-5:30 p.m.

For a conference agenda and registration information, go to www.ieha.wildapricot.org. There is no charge for students to attend the conference, but pre-registration is encouraged. For information about Boise State’s undergraduate and graduate programs in health sciences and environmental and occupational health, go to http://hs.boisestate.edu/ceh/.
 
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Media Contact: Mike Journee, University Communications, (208) 426-1517, mikejournee@boisestate.edu

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Last reviewed on Tuesday, March 10, 2009