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PPNNE's Education and Training Department invites you to attend this important educational event where we will hear from national leading experts in the field of environmental health.

When: Thursday, September 10, 2009; Registration 8:30 am; Conference 9:00am - 5:00 pm
Where: Main Street Landing, Burlington, VT
Register by: September 8, 2009

In recent years there has been an increased awareness of the connections between environmental contaminants, fertility, and health - and a growing body of evidence supporting these concerns that link reduced fertility to pregnancy loss, adverse birth outcomes, reproductive tract abnormalities, learning disabilities in children, and various cancers to environmental contaminants.  It is becoming increasingly clear to those of us who work for women's health that we must begin to turn our attention to the environmental toxicants that are affecting the ability of couples to become pregnant, have a healthy pregnancy, and give birth to healthy children.

At Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, we feel a responsibility as a health care organization to help our patients and communities make the link between human health and the products we use in our homes, in our schools, and on our bodies.

Keynote Address: Dr. Sandra Steingraber
Ecologist, author, and cancer survivor, Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized expert on the environmental links to cancer and human health.

Special Guest Speakers

AnnBlake, Ph.D.  
The Chemicals Around Us
Ann Blake, Ph.D., is an independent consultant whose work spans setting standards for environmentally preferable purchasing and chemicals policy reform legislation.  Ann's current clients include the City of San Francisco's Department of Environment, the health advocacy NGO Women's Voices for the Earth, and the consumer education database GoodGuide.com. 

Elise Miller, M.Ed.
Environmental Contributors to Learning and Developmental Disabilities
Elise Miller, MEd, is Director of the Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE), and international partnership of researchers, health professionals and environmental health and justice advocates working to mitigate environmental contributors to chronic disease and disability.  As a co-founder of the Collaborative in 2002, Ms. Miller also coordinates CHE's Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative and co-chairs CHE's Parkinson's Disease and Environment Working Group.

Janet Gray, MS, Ph.D.
Environmental Risks and Breast Cancer
Janet Gray, MS, Ph.D., coordinated the research, production and release of a website and CD-ROM called Environmental Risks and Breast Cancer; the Breast Cancer Fund was among the project's supporters.  Dr. Gray is the editor of the most recent addition of the Breast Cancer Fund's State of Evidence: The Connection Between Breast Cancer and the Environment.

Mia Davis, M.A.
The Not-So-Pretty Beauty Industry
Mia Davis, MA, is the National Grassroots Coordinator of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, a coalition of over one hundred organizations working to protect consumer health by calling on the cosmetics industry and the US government to eliminate chemicals linked to cancer, birth defects and other health problems from all personal care products.  Mia is also the co-leader of the Workgroup for Safe Markets, a national coalition working to reform the market and reduce exposure to harmful chemicals, such as reproductive toxins in baby bottles, toys and household items.

Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D.
The Falling Age of Puberty in U.S. Girls and the Implications for Learning
Ecologist, author, and cancer survivor, Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized expert on the environmental links to cancer and human health.

Panel Discussion:  "We ARE part of the solution."
Join us to listen as the experts discuss how individuals can actively contribute to solving this daunting problem.  People can make informed decisions to protect themselves and their families, and people can exercise great power as consumers and citizens.
Moderator: Dave Rapaport, Sr. Director of Corporate Consciousness, Seventh Generation

Fees:
For CEUS    $ 80.00
General Admission: $ 60.00
Students: $35.00
This fee includes all conference material, a brown bag lunch from a farm-based restaurant, and an afternoon snack_^. 

We'd like extend sincere and deep gratitude to the sponsors of our event.         

Give Yourself Some Credit!
CEUs will be provided for the following:

• Educational Recertification
• The National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC)
• American Nurses' Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation

^{Planned Parenthood of Northern New England is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Vermont State Nurses' Association, Inc., an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.}

If you have any questions, contact us by calling (800) 488-9638.

To learn more about the connections between the environment and women's health, visit PPNNE's good-chemistry blog.