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costs of war and highlight the connection between public health,

peace, labor and U.S. veterans communities. Featured speakers include:

-- Deborah Klein Walker, EdD, president, APHA

-- Arlene Holt Baker, executive vice president, AFL-CIO

-- Michael McCally, MD, PhD, executive director, Physicians

for Social Responsibility

-- Garrett Reppenhagen, Iraq Veterans Against the War

-- Kael Alford, photojournalist, "Unembedded: Four Independent

Photojournalists on the War in Iraq"

-- Climate Change Initiative Press Conference - Tuesday, Nov. 6,

12:30 p.m.

Some of the nation's most highly respected public health experts will

announce a major new initiative on climate change and health.

Featured speakers include:

-- Georges C. Benjamin, MD, FACP, FACEP (E), executive director,

APHA

-- Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH, associate professor of Environmental

Studies and Population Health Sciences, University of

Wisconsin-Madison; principal lead author, Intergovernmental

Panel of Climate Change (IPCC)

-- Lillian Shirley, BSN, MPH, MPA, director, Multnomah (Ore.) County

Health Department

-- During the meeting, public health leaders will also debate and vote on

policies with wide-ranging impact for public health. Included among

the policies that APHA's Governing Council will consider are:

-- Addressing Obesity and Health Disparities Through Federal

Nutrition and Agriculture Policy

-- Vaginal Douching and Adverse Reproductive Health Outcomes

-- Addressing the Urgent Threat of Global Climate Change to Public

Health and the Environment

-- Promoting School Information Sharing for Public Health Purposes