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Women’s Health & the Environment: New Science, New Solutions was held in Pittsburgh at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center on April 20, 2007. The conference was sponsored by Teresa Heinz, The Heinz Endowments and Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC.

If you missed the conference or you want to review comments from any of the speakers, click on any of the video podcast links below.

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Welcome & Introductions: (watch)

  • Jeffrey Lewis, President
    Heinz Family Philanthropies
  • Leslie Davis, President
    Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC

Opening Address: (watch)
Teresa Heinz

Morning Keynote: (watch)
Contaminated Without Consent: How Pollutants in Air, Food and Water Violate Human Rights
Sandra Steingraber, PhD, author of “Living Downstream” and “Having Faith”

The New Science Panel: (watch)
Moderator: Steve Curwood, National
Public Radio

  • Unexplained Patterns in Women’s Health and the Environment
    Devra Lee Davis, PhD, MPH, Center for Environmental Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
    (powerpoint)
  • Paradigm Change in Environmental Health Science
    John Peterson Myers, PhD, Environmental Health News Service, co-author of “Our Stolen Future”
    (powerpoint)
  • Metals: New Lessons About Ancient Problems
    Herb Needleman, MD, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
    (powerpoint)
  • Moms and Children at Risk
    Frederica Perera, DrPH,
    Columbia University Children’s Environmental Health Center
    (powerpoint)

Luncheon Keynote: (watch)
Silent Spring to Silent Night: Hermaphroditic Frogs, Breast Cancer
and Pesticides

Tyrone Hayes, PhD, University of California, Berkeley

The New Solutions Panel: (watch)
Moderator: Steve Curwood, National
Public Radio

  • Are Cosmetics Poison: Consumer Choices and Market Campaigns
    Jane Houlihan, Environmental
    Working Group
  • Starting from the Basics: Green Chemistry and Product Design
    Terrence J. Collins, PhD,
    Carnegie Mellon University
  • From Harlem to New Orleans,
    Women Leading Change

    Peggy M. Shepard, West Harlem Environmental Action
  • Implementing Change – From Precaution to Policy Reform
    Laurie Valeriano, Washington
    Toxics Coalition

Introduction of Closing Keynote Speaker: (watch)
Jeanne Rizzo, Breast Cancer Fund

Closing Keynote: (watch)
Women Must Demand Cancer Prevention
Fran Drescher, author of “Cancer Schmancer”

Concluding Remarks: (watch)
Teresa Heinz

 

 

 

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