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EPA Public Listening Session to Frame National Agenda on the Environment and the Aging -- Public Participation Invited to Set Priorities for Research and Education

Release Date: 03/25/2003
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(03/25/03) In a recently announced EPA initiative to protect older Americans from environmental health hazards, EPA Administrator Christie Whitman will convene the first in a series of public listening sessions to be held across the country. The public listening sessions are part of a nationwide effort to encourage public participation in the development of a National Agenda on the Environment and the Aging. The National Agenda will build on EPA’s ongoing aging research efforts, identify research gaps in environmental health, develop strategies to prepare for a rapidly aging population, and encourage older adults to volunteer in local environmental health awareness and improvement efforts. Future listening sessions are scheduled in San Antonio, Texas (April 8); Iowa City, Iowa (April 15); Pittsburgh, Pa. (April 23); Los Angeles, Calif. (April 29); and Baltimore, Md. (May 7).

WHO: Christie Whitman, EPA Administrator

Larry Branch, PhD., Professor of Epidemiology, University of South Florida College of Public Health
Maureen S. Kelly, Executive Director, West Central Florida Area Agency on Aging, Inc.

Bonita Sorensen, Deputy State Health Officer, Florida Department of Health

Dr. Rob Ambler, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

WHAT: Public Listening Session to develop a National Agenda on the Environment and the Aging

WHEN: Thursday, April 3, 2003, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

WHERE: Auditorium, University of South Florida College of Public Health
13201 Bruce B. Downs Boulevard, Tampa, Fla.
Call: 813-740-3888 ext. 233

For further information, visit the new EPA Aging Web site at www.epa.gov/aging or call 1-866-EPA-AGED (372-2433). The listening session is cosponsored by the University of South Florida and the West Central Florida Area Agency on Aging, Inc.