Highlights of the 2010 CSTE conference include:

Climate Change Adaptation: The Public Health Response, scheduled for Sunday June 6, will feature speakers who will discuss the public health response to climate change. Speakers will focus on working towards a national climate change strategy and the role of public health in that strategy and include Nancy Sutley, the Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality,

The Past as Prelude: Federal and State Perspectives on Public Health, moderated by Katrina Hedberg, Oregon Public Health, and Perry Smith, of the New York State Department of Health. This session is scheduled for Monday June 7, the first full day of the conference, and will feature speakers including Judith Monroe, Director of the Office of State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Bruce Goldberg, the Director of the Oregon Department of Human Services, and Joshua Sharfstein, the Principal Deputy Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Other conference sessions will highlight research into improving influenza surveillance, health disparities, unintentional injury, and foodborne disease, among others.

SOURCE Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists