"Environmental Health on the Ag/Urban Frontier"

Town Hall Meeting

Tuesday, August 17, 1999

12 noon-4:30 p.m.

Convention Center, Exhibit Hall D, Downtown Sacramento, CA

Visit our website at http://www.envtox.ucdavis.edu/CEHS/THM.htm

 

12:00 Noon to 1 p.m. -- Banquet Luncheon , Reservations Required

 

Speaker: Dr. Kenneth Olden

Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Research Triangle Park, N.C.

"Breakthrough Environmental Health Issues at the National Level"

 

 1:00 p.m. to1:35 pm.

 

Speaker: Dr. Robert Costanza

Dept. Of Economics

University of Maryland, College Park

"The Economics of Sustainable Agriculture"

 

 1:35 p.m. to 2:10 p.m.

 

Speaker: Mr. Richard Rominger

Deputy Director, U.S. Dept. Of Agriculture and

Local farmer, Winters, CA

"Agricultural Practices on the Ag/Urban Frontier"

 

 2:10 p.m. to 2:30p.m.

 

 Break--Refreshments will be served

 

 2:25 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

 

Speaker: California State Senator Byron Sher

Democrat, 11th District

"Creating Policy for the Ag/Urban Interface"

 

3:00p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

 

 Panel discussion with open microphones for audience participation

"Health Issues on California's Ag/Urban Frontier"

 

Moderator: Ms. Rusty Dornan (tentative)

Journalist

CNN San Francisco Bureau

Participants:

Dr. Costanza, Mr. Rominger, Senator Sher and

 

Dr. Fumio Matsumura

Director, Center for Environmental Health Sciences

U.C. Davis

 

Dr. James Sanborn

Pesticide Regulation Division

California E.P.A.

 

Dr. Michael O'Malley

Physician, Employee Health Services

U.C. Davis