Building a Framework for Healthy Housing: 2008 National Healthy Homes Conference
Sep 15th, 2008
When?
Monday, September 15th (8:00AM) to Wednesday, September 17th (1:00PM)
Where?
Hilton Baltimore Hotel and Conference Center
401 West Pratt Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21201
Sponsored by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
The Building a Framework for Healthy Housing conference will provide a forum to exchange information on public/private sector activities, policies, regulations, scientific research, outreach and state-of-the-art mitigation techniques. Using lessons learned from our national lead poisoning prevention strategy, the conference will focus on these key themes designed to link health and housing in order to build the framework necessary to make homes safe, healthy, and efficient:
- Building Capacity to Deliver Healthy Housing;
- Mainstreaming Healthy Housing Principles;
- Creating Healthy Housing through Research;
- Developing Enforcement and Regulatory Strategies as a Primary Prevention Tool;
- Marketing Healthy Housing; and
- Educating the Public and Practitioners.
For more information: http://www.hud.gov/offices/lead/2008NHHC.cfm