Workshop Announcement
Emerging Threats and Response of Arctic Communities to Climate Change
Alaska Forum on the Environment
13-15 February 2008
Anchorage Alaska
For further information, please go to:
http://www.akforum.com
"Emerging Threats and Response of Arctic Communities to Climate Change,"
an international workshop on climate change and human health in the
Arctic will be held in conjunction with the Alaska Forum on the
Environment on 13-15 February 2008, in Anchorage Alaska. The workshop is
organized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Arctic
Investigations Program, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, and the
Alaska Forum on the Environment.
The purpose of the workshop is to bring together researchers from
circumpolar countries to update current knowledge on the impact of
climate change on human health; examine the principle conclusions and
recommendations of Arctic Climate Impact Assessment report on human
health to determine potential items for action; and examine the
feasibility of implementing community-based monitoring strategy with and
across regions to measure and report a common set of climate, health
status, environmental, infrastructure, and ecosystem indicators.
To register for the workshop, please go to:
http://www.akforum.com/register.html. Be sure to check the box marked
"CDC Climate Change and Impacts on Human Health in the Arctic Workshop."
For more information about the workshop, please contact:
Alan J. Parkinson
E-mail: ajp1 [at] cdc.gov
James Berner
E-mail: jberner [at] anmc.org