Meeting Archive:
When Every Drop Counts: The Public Health Implications of Drought
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Meeting Description:
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Public health professionals have known for some time about many of the health impacts of climate change. This year, the U.S. is dealing with the most extensive and prolonged drought conditions in more than 50 years. The occurrence of drought-related health impacts is challenging many communities for the first time. This webinar will provide information about the preconditions leading up to the current drought situation, discuss the significant overarching public health issues related to drought, and highlight some of these impacts, focusing on several American Indian and Alaska Native communities.
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Date:
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Fri, Aug 24, 2012
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Time:
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01:00 PM EDT
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Duration:
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1 hour
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Host(s):
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Rear Admiral Scott Deitchman
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Presenter Information
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| Martin Kalis, MA |
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Martin is a Public Health Advisor with NCEH, where he serves as the lead for CDC’s Environmental Health Training in Emergency Response program. Prior to joining CDC, Martin was a consultant to the National Response Team, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Coast Guard, and The White House Office of Homeland Security. He has also collaborated on research activities with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the International Center for Terrorism Studies at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, and the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at St. Andrews University in Scotland. He also worked as an Emergency Medical Technician and a Community Education Coordinator for a local home health care agency in Georgia.
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| George Luber, PhD |
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George has served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer and staff epidemiologist at NCEH since joining CDC in 2002. Most recently,his work has focused on the epidemiology and prevention of heat-related illness and death and climate change adaptation as manager of the the Climate Change Program at CDC. George is also a Co-Chair of the Climate Change and Human Health Interagency Workgroup at the US Global Change Research Program, a member of the Federal Advisory Committee (ex-officio) for the US National Climate Assessment, a member of the American Anthropological Association’s Presidential Task Force on Climate Change, and a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Fifth Assessment Report.
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| Annabelle Allison, BS |
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Annabelle is a member of the Navajo tribe and serves as a liaison between the NCEH/ATSDR divisions and American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) tribes across the country. Annabelle was formerly employed with Northern Arizona University’s Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals (ITEP), where she provided hands-on training to tribes across the U.S. on air quality topics. She also served as the Co-Director for the Tribal Air Monitoring Support (TAMS) Center in Las Vegas, NV where she collaborated with tribal environmental professionals, EPA and other entities to provide specialized training and technical assistance on environmental monitoring issues. From 2005 to 2007, Annabelle completed an Inter-governmental Personnel Act assignment with the EPA’s Office of Air Quality Planning & Standards in Research Triangle Park, NC, where she worked as a liaison for technical and policy issues with tribes and EPA.
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