2009 Conference
Promoting Environmental and Policy Change
to Support Healthy Aging
Selected Speaker Presentations
Additional presentations will be added as they become available.
Welcome and Conference Overview
Alice Ammerman, DRPH, RD, and Basia Belza, PhD, RN
The Challenge: Imperatives for Environmental and Policy Change Promoting Healthy Aging: The Importance of the Environment
Plenary Speaker: S. Leonard Syme, PhD
The Stories We Tell: Some Health Equity Communications Lessons Learned from Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
Keynote Speaker: Larry Adelman
The Science: Community Environmental Factors Supporting Healthy Aging-1
Judy Kruger, PhD, MS
The Science: Community Environmental Factors Supporting Healthy Aging-2
Rebecca Hunter, MEd
The Science: Community Environmental Factors Supporting Healthy Aging-3
Lucinda Bryant, PhD, MSHA
The Practice: Using the RE-AIM Framework to Structure Environmental and Policy Change
Janice Sommers, MPH
The Challenge and the Science: Linking Environmental Assessment and Planning
Phil Bors, MPH (moderator), Richard Duncan, MRP, Elinor Ginzler, and Malisa Mccreedy, AICP, MPA
The Practice: Integrating Lessons from Exemplary Assessment and Planning Approaches
Building Effective Coalitions for Environmental and Policy Change: The Case of Fall Prevention
National Council on Aging
Lynn Beattie, PT, MPT, MHA
North Carolina Falls Prevention Coalition
Ellen Schneider, MBA
Lessons Learned from Eastern North Carolina's Fall Prevention Coalition
Jane Painter, EdD, OTR/L, FAOTA
Policies and Tools for Healthy Communities
Jim Kauffman, MEd, and David Carcieri
CDC's Healthy Communities Program: Activating Policy, Systems, and Environmental Changes at the Local Level
Alyssa Easton, PhD, MPH
The Challenge and the Science: Social Determinants – Vulnerable People and Places-1
Wayne Giles, MD, MS
The Challenge and the Science: Social Determinants – Vulnerable People and Places-2
David Yim, MSW
The Practice: Improving Health through Environmental and Policy Change
Kathy Sykes, MA
The Practice: From the Ground Up - Problem Solving
Nutritional Challenge of Food Access for Seniors
Texas A&M Health Science Center, School of Rural Public Health Program for Research in Nutrition and Health Disparities
Joseph R. Sharkey, PhD, MPH, RD
Urban Communities and Food System Development: Organizing for Social Change and Policy Improvements
Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Food Policy Coalition
Matt Russell, MNO, and Morgan Taggart
Universal Design in Housing: Promoting Consumer and Policymaker Awareness of Universal Design and Visitability
R. L. Mace Universal Design Institute
Richard Duncan, MRP
Lifelong Communities: A Regional Approach to Aging
Atlanta Regional Commission
Kathryn Lawler, MPP