Session 1 Shifting the Paradigm: Communication Frameworks that Strengthen our Public Health Partnerships

Monday, 24 January 2011: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM
4C-2 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Second Symposium on Environment and Health
Moderator:
Wendy Marie Thomas, American Meteorological Society, AMS Policy Program, Washington, DC
Chair:
Wendy Marie Thomas, American Meteorological Society, AMS Policy Program, Washington, DC

Papers:
11:00 AM
1.1
The use of a medical disease model to communicate the concept of uncertainty
James L. Persson, U.S. Army Aeromedical Activity, Fort Rucker, AL
11:15 AM
1.2
IRI Climate Information for Public Health: towards a knowledge system
Gilma C. Mantilla Caicedo, International Research Institute for Climate and Society ( IRI), Palisades, NY; and M. Thomson and S. Connor
11:30 AM
1.3
Modeling and communicating plague risk in Uganda
Andrew J. Monaghan, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. H. Hayden, R. J. Eisen, K. L. Gage, K. S. Griffith, and E. Zielinski-Gutierrez
11:45 AM
1.4
Health forecasting prevents hospital admissions
Tapio Jokinen, Medixine ltd, Espoo, Finland
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