Forum on Biodiversity and Human Health: A
Multidisciplinary Approach to Examining the
Links
Sponsored by
Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies' Center for EcoEpidemiology
Environmental
Protection Agency
National
Center for Environmental Research
Smithsonian
Institution
World Conservation Union
Monday,
September 14, 2006
National Museum of Natural History
Baird Auditorium
10th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
The loss of biodiversity is accelerating while new infectious diseases
appear to be emerging and reemerging at a faster rate. Research on the links
between these two processes can have an important impact on our view of
biodiversity, the services provided by natural ecosystems, and how we manage
them.
This interdisciplinary forum of researchers, practitioners, and
decisionmakers in ecology, public health, remote sensing, and the social
sciences will discuss the state of the science, refine research priorities,
and begin discussions on how to integrate existing data into a monitoring
and risk-forecasting network that aims to prevent or significantly mitigate
risks of human disease and threats to biodiversity around the world.
The forum will consist of presentations on themes related to biodiversity
and human health such as epidemiology and vector ecology; climate change,
biodiversity, and health; wildlife trade and the spread of exotics and
disease; pharmacopeia; the role of biodiversity in natural catastrophes;
valuation of biodiversity for public health; and applications of research to
the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). These presentations
will be part of an outreach effort to scientists and decision-makers to
stress the importance of the connection between biodiversity and human
health and to discuss the state of the science.
The event will bring together experts from a variety of disciplines,
academia, nongovernmental organizations, and management agencies from the
United States and abroad to share expertise and information and to consider
new approaches to characterize the relationship between biodiversity and
human health.
This Forum is part of a series on contemporary issues related to the
environment and health sponsored by the Yale Institute for Biospheric
Studies, Center for EcoEpidemiology. The Forum will be webcasted live from
the Smithsonian at www.scgcorp.com/biodiversity1/webcast.asp and made available on this website for viewing afterward.
Click on speaker's
names below to view presentations. (To view opening and closing remarks,
click on title)
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. |
Registration |
9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. |
Welcome and Opening Remarks
William H. Farland, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Science, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency
Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., United States Navy
(Retired), Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere
and Administrator, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
9:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. |
Biodiversity Decline and Risks to Human Health |
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9:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. |
Richard Ostfeld, Institute of Ecosystem Studies |
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9:45 a.m. – 9:55 a.m. |
Questions and Discussion |
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9:55 a.m. – 10:10 a.m. |
Vanessa Ezenwa, University of Montana |
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10:10 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. |
Questions and Discussion |
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10:20 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. |
BREAK |
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10:45 a.m. – 11:35 a.m. |
Disease Emergence in Terrestrial and Marine Environments |
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10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. |
Rita Colwell, University of Maryland |
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11:00 a.m. – 11:10 a.m. |
Questions and Discussion |
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11:10 a.m. – 11:25 a.m. |
Durland Fish, Yale University |
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11:25 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. |
Questions and Discussion |
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11:35 a.m. – 12:00 p.m |
Natural Hazards and Coastal Biodiversity |
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11:35 a.m. – 11:50 a.m |
Phil Berke, University of North Carolina |
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11:50 a.m. – 12:00 p.m |
Questions and Discussion |
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12:00
p.m.
– 12:25 p.m. |
Soils, Biodiversity, and Links to Human Health |
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12:00
p.m.
– 12:15 p.m. |
Diana Wall, Colorado State University |
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12:15 p.m. – 12:25 p.m. |
Questions and Discussion |
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12:25 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. |
LUNCH |
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1:45 p.m. – 2:35 p.m. |
Environmental Change and Disease Risk |
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1:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. |
Tony Goldberg, University of Illinois |
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2:00 p.m. – 2:10 p.m. |
Questions and Discussion |
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2:10 p.m. – 2:25 p.m. |
Gregory Glass, Johns Hopkins University |
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2:25 p.m. – 2:35 p.m. |
Questions and Discussion |
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2:35 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. |
International Perspective: Research on Environmental Change and
Emerging Human Diseases |
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2:35 p.m. – 2:50 p.m. |
Stéphane de La Rocque, Emerging
Diseases in a Changing European Environment |
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2:50 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. |
Questions and Discussion |
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3:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. |
Biodiversity and Medicines |
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3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. |
David Newman, National Cancer Institute |
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3:15 p.m. – 3:25 p.m. |
Questions and Discussion |
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3:25 p.m. – 3:40 p.m.. |
Roberta Lee, Continuum Center for
Health and Healing |
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3:40 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. |
Questions and Discussion |
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3:50 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. |
BREAK |
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4:15 p.m. – 4:40 p.m. |
Applications to the Global Earth Observation System of Systems |
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4:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. |
José Achache,
Group on Earth Observations |
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4:30 p.m. – 4:40 p.m. . |
Questions and Discussion |
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4:40 p.m. – 5:05 p.m. |
Wildlife Trade and Risks to Biodiversity and Health |
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4:40 p.m. – 4:55 p.m. |
Robert Cook, Wildlife Conservation Society |
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4:55 p.m. – 5:05 p.m. |
Questions and Discussion |
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5:05 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. |
Valuation of Biodiversity Benefits to Human Health Outcomes |
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5:05 p.m. – 5:20 p.m. |
Subhrendu Pattanayak, RTI International |
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5:20 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. |
Questions and Discussion |
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5:30 p.m. |
Closing Remarks |
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