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8:00
- 9:00 a.m.
Registration Opens and Continental
Breakfast
9:15
- 9:30 a.m.
Welcome & Introductions:
- Jeffrey Lewis, President
Heinz Family Philanthropies
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- Leslie Davis, President
Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC
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9:30 - 10:00 a.m.
Opening Address:
Teresa Heinz
10:00 - 10:45 a.m.
Morning Keynote:
Contaminated Without Consent: How Pollutants in Air, Food
and Water Violate Human Rights
Sandra Steingraber, PhD, author of “Living Downstream”
and “Having Faith”
10:45 a.m.- 12:15 p.m.
The New Science Panel:
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
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- Paradigm Change in Environmental Health
Science
John Peterson Myers, PhD, Environmental Health News Service,
co-author of “Our Stolen Future”
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- Metals: New Lessons About Ancient Problems
Herb Needleman, MD, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
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- Moms and Children at Risk
Frederica Perera, DrPH,
Columbia University Children’s Environmental Health
Center
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12:15 -1:00 p.m.
Lunch |
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1:00
- 1:45 p.m.
Luncheon Keynote:
Silent Spring to Silent Night: Hermaphroditic Frogs, Breast
Cancer
and Pesticides
Tyrone Hayes, PhD, University of California, Berkeley
1:45 - 3:30 p.m.
The New Solutions Panel:
Moderator: Steve Curwood, National
Public Radio
- Are Cosmetics Poison: Consumer Choices
and Market Campaigns
Jane Houlihan, Environmental
Working Group
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- Starting from the Basics: Green Chemistry
and Product Design
Terrence J. Collins, PhD,
Carnegie Mellon University
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- From Harlem to New Orleans,
Women Leading Change
Peggy M. Shepard, West Harlem Environmental Action
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- Implementing Change – From Precaution
to Policy Reform
Laurie Valeriano, Washington
Toxics Coalition
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3:30 - 4:15 p.m.
Introduction of Closing Keynote Speaker:
Jeanne Rizzo, Breast Cancer Fund
Closing Keynote:
Women Must Demand Cancer Prevention
Fran Drescher, author of “Cancer Schmancer”
4:15 - 4:30 p.m.
Concluding Remarks:
Teresa Heinz
After the conference, plan to attend
the:
Rachel Carson Legacy Celebration
Senator John Heinz History Center
5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Featuring a special performance by the Indigo Girls.
Cost: $50 per person – hors d’oeuvres
and cash bar
Registration: www.rachelcarsonhomestead.org
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