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EPA Public Listening Session to Frame National Agenda on the Environment and the Aging - Public Participation Invited to Set Priorities for Research and Education

Release Date: 05/06/2003
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(05/06/03) In a recently announced EPA initiative to protect older Americans from environmental health hazards, EPA will convene the last in a series of public listening sessions held across the country. The public listening sessions are part of a nationwide effort to encourage public participation in the development of a National Agenda on the Environment and the Aging. The National Agenda will build on EPA’s ongoing aging research efforts, identify research gaps in environmental health, develop strategies to prepare for a rapidly aging population, and encourage older adults to volunteer in local environmental health awareness and improvement efforts.

WHO: Christie Whitman, EPA Administrator

Don Welsh, EPA Region 3 Regional Administrator

Janet D. Allan, Ph.D, R.N. FAAN, Dean, University of

Maryland School of Nursing

Jay S. Magaziner, PhD, M.S. Hyg, Professor, Department of

Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine; Director, Division of
Gerontology, University of Maryland School of Medicine

John P. Stewart, Executive Director, Baltimore Commission on

Aging and Retirement Education
Jean W. Roesser, Secretary, Maryland Department of Aging

Kendl P. Philbrick, Deputy Secretary, Maryland Department

of the Environment

WHAT: Public Listening Session to develop a National Agenda on the Environment and the Aging

WHEN: Wednesday, May 7, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

WHERE: Auditorium, School of Nursing, University of Maryland Baltimore
655 West Lombard St., Baltimore, Md.

For further information, go to: www.epa.gov/aging or call 1-866-EPA-AGED (1-866-372-2433). The listening session is cosponsored by the University of Maryland Baltimore School of Nursing, University of Maryland Baltimore School of Medicine and Center for Research on Aging, and the Baltimore Commission on Aging and Retirement Education.