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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: 05/06/2003
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Luke Hester 202 564-7818/[email protected]


(05/06/03) In a recently announced EPA initiative to protect older Americans from environmental health hazards, EPA will convene the last in a series of public listening sessions 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.
      WHO: Christie Whitman, EPA Administrator
Don Welsh, EPA Region 3 Regional Administrator
              Janet D. Allan, Ph.D, R.N. FAAN, Dean, University of
Maryland School of Nursing
              Jay S. Magaziner, PhD, M.S. Hyg, Professor, Department of
Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine; Director, Division of
Gerontology, University of Maryland School of Medicine
              John P. Stewart, Executive Director, Baltimore Commission on
Aging and Retirement Education
Jean W. Roesser, Secretary, Maryland Department of Aging
              Kendl P. Philbrick, Deputy Secretary, Maryland Department
of the Environment
    WHAT: Public Listening Session to develop a National Agenda on the Environment and the Aging

    WHEN: Wednesday, May 7, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

    WHERE: Auditorium, School of Nursing, University of Maryland Baltimore
    655 West Lombard St., Baltimore, Md.

    For further information, go to: www.epa.gov/aging or call 1-866-EPA-AGED (1-866-372-2433). The listening session is cosponsored by the University of Maryland Baltimore School of Nursing, University of Maryland Baltimore School of Medicine and Center for Research on Aging, and the Baltimore Commission on Aging and Retirement Education.