Release
Date: Immediate Release
Kill Date:
February 16, 2006
Contact
Person: Janet Phelps
Phone:
(810) 257-3199
RE:
Genesee County Health Department’s Premiere Public Health
Symposium
“Improving the Public’s Health: The Scope and Breadth of Public
Health”
The Genesee County Health Department announces its premiere Public
Health Symposium on April 3, 2006 from 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. at the
Genesee County Administration Building, Harris Auditorium – 3rd
Floor, 1101 Beach Street in Flint, Michigan.
Speakers include Tony Moulton, Public Health Practice Director, Centers
for Disease Control in
Atlanta
,
Georgia
, Dr. L.J. Dragovic,
Chief Medical Examiner for
Oakland County,
Michigan
, Jim Bergman, Smoke-Free
Environments Law Project in Ann Arbor, Jane Speakman, Solicitor,
City of Toronto
Canada
Legal Services, Richard
Hill-Rowley, Earth and Resource Science Department,
University
of
Michigan
–
Flint
,
and Dr. Eden Wells,
Michigan
Department of Community
Health, Bureau of Epidemiology.
The
symposium is in conjunction with the National Public Health
Association’s (NPHA) Annual Public Health Week,
April
3-9, 2006
. In
1995, former President
William Jefferson Clinton proclaimed the first full week of April as
National Public Health Week (NPHW). Each year since then, during this week
the public health community brings attention to public health issues.
The symposium provides
an opportunity for local and regional health, legal, environmental and business people, community
residents, and faith-based groups who wish to expand their knowledge about at range
of issues which affect the public’s health.
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