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5/8/06 News Release
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MEDIA ADVISORY: SYMPOSIUM ON HOW ‘BUILT ENVIRONMENT’ AFFECTS HEALTH
May 11 event to bring together experts from wide range of disciplines
STANFORD, Calif. — The broad range of impacts the man-made—or built—environment can have on chronic and infectious diseases and other aspects of health is the topic of a daylong conference on May 11 at the Schwab Center at Stanford University.
“The built environment and your health: How buildings, urban form, and man-made devices shape health across the lifespan” will bring together experts from a diverse array of fields that study how constructed surroundings affect life. Speakers will share the latest research from such disciplines as medicine, engineering, psychology, architecture, epidemiology, anthropology, history, urban planning and transportation. They will discuss how increased urbanization and the rapid development and dissemination of new technologies have affected industrialized and developing nations.
The event was organized by the Stanford Prevention Research Center, along with members of the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford and the Bill Lane Center for the Study of the North American West at Stanford. Financial Support for this conference was provided by the James H. Whittam Memorial Lecture Fund of the Stanford Prevention Research Center.
To view the conference announcement and download the conference program, go to http://prevention.stanford.edu/. Conference registration is free. As space is limited, reporters should register in advance with the Stanford University School of Medicine’s Office of Communication & Public Affairs at the above phone numbers or e-mail addresses if they wish to be guaranteed entrance.
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