Agenda

The opening plenary will begin at 8:40am ET

Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and  Administrator, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

Nancy Krieger, PhD
Professor of Social Epidemiology, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Director of the HSPH Interdisciplinary Concentration on Women, Gender and Health

Nancy Krieger is Professor of Social Epidemiology and American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) and Director of the HSPH Interdisciplinary Concentration on Women, Gender, and Health. She is an internationally recognized social epidemiologist (PhD, Epidemiology, UC Berkeley, 1989), with a background in biochemistry, philosophy of science, and history of public health, plus 35+ years of activism involving social justice, science, and health. She is an ISI highly cited scientist (since 2004; reaffirmed: 2015); the group comprises <0.05% of publishing researchers. Dr. Krieger’s work addresses: (1) conceptual frameworks to understand, analyze, and improve the people’s health, including her ecosocial theory of disease distribution. focused on embodiment and equity; (2) etiologic research on societal determinants of population health and health inequities, including structural racism and other types of adverse discrimination; and (3) methodologic research to improve monitoring of health inequities.

Please feel free to visit the Poster Hall during this time and chat with poster authors.

Voting is open until 1pm ET for the 2021 Place & Health Poster Awards.

Environmental Health Equity: A Time for Action – Introduction of Speakers
Andrew Dent, MA, MBA, Director, Geospatial Research, Analysis, and Services Program, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

Environmental Health Equity: A Time for Action – Focus on Health Equity and Climate
Patrick Breysse, PhD, Director National Center for Environmental Health and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Environmental Health Equity: A Time for Action – Focus on Environmental Justice at Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Christopher Reh, PhD, Associate Director, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Environmental Health Equity: A Time for Action – Focus on Health Equity and Geospatial Research Analysis and Services Program (GRASP)
Andrew Dent, MA, MBA, Director, Geospatial Research, Analysis, and Services Program, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

Place and Health Conference 2021 Presentation of Poster Awards
Voting results for Most Original, Best Analysis, and Best Cartographic
Presenter: Natalie Lennon, MPH

A call to action: County-Level increases in hypertension-related cardiovascular disease mortality
Adam Vaughan, PhD, CDC's Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention

Access to lung cancer screening in rural and urban environments in the US
Liora Sahar, PhD, CDC's Geospatial Research, Analysis, and Services Program (contractor)

Spotlighting chronic disease maps from state health departments
Michele Casper, CDC's Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention

Using the strengths of Bayesian modeling to examine county-level variation in the timing of changing
Aspen Flynn, MPH, CDC's Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention

Designing and mapping a youth Physical Activity Disparity (PAD) index
Jue Yang, PhD Candidate in the Geography Department at University of Georgia

Empowering Change in the Built Environment: A Tool to Improve Walkability, Bikeability, & Safety Through Land Use and Planning Decisions in Southern Nevada
Courtney Coughenour, PhD, UNLV School of Public Health

Using GIS to Tell the Equity Story of Those Walking and Biking in Las Vegas, NV
Erin Breen, BA, UNLV Transportation Research Center

Mapping health impact and exposure data following a lubricant chemical fire in Illinois to respond to public concern
Sandra Martell, DNP, Winnebago County Health Department

Environmental Justice Dashboard from CDC’s Environmental Public Health Tracking Program
Jena Losch, MPH, CDC's Environmental Public Health Tracking Program

Data Optimization and Dynamic Visualization: A Guide to Publishing a CDC PowerBI Dashboard
Phong Le, MPH, CDC's Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention

CDC Heat & Health Tracker: Tracking Heat Impacts and Vulnerabilities
Claudia Brown, MDP, CDC Heat & Health Tracker: Tracking Heat Impacts and Vulnerabilities

Development of Sub-County Health Data Indicators through Geographic Aggregation for Environmental Health Surveillance in New York State
Arjita Rai, MPH, Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology, New York State Department of Health

Modernization Initiative for the CDC’s Interactive Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke
Linda Schieb, MSPH, CDC's Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention

Data-Driven Public Health Action: A National Farm Labor Data Dashboard
Sarah Prager, MPH, National Center for Farmworker Health

Call-to-Action
Sharunda Buchanan, PhD, MS, Director, Office of Priority Projects, Innovation and Environmental Justice, National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Closing Remarks
Arie Manangan, MA, Chair, Geography and Geospatial Science Working Group, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention