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Eliminating Health and Safety Disparities at Work
A NIOSH Conference
Chicago Illinois, September 14 & 15, 2011

Wednesday, September 14
8:15-9:00 am Continental breakfast provided
9:00-9:15 am Welcome and Conference Overview
J. Nadine Gracia MD, MSCE, Chief Medical Officer, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, US Department of Health and Human Services
9:15-9:45 am Opening Keynote: Eliminating Health Disparities at Work
Linda Rae Murray MD, MPH, President, American Public Health Association
Chief Medical Officer, Cook County Department of Public Health
9:45-10:00 am Roundtable discussion among participants: Who is here? Why did you come? [Ice Breaker part I]
10:00-10:30 am Presentation of white papers-15-minute summary (paper descriptions)
1: Approaches to Education and Training
2: Work Organization and Job Insecurity
10:30-11:00 am Interactive Activity What do we want to accomplish? [Ice Breaker part II]
Break
11:00-11:45 am Presentation of white papers (continued):
3: Workplace Injustice: Discrimination, Abuse, and Harassment
4: Developing an Integrated Approach to the Health of the Low-Income Workforce
5: Effects of Social, Economic, and Labor Policies on Occupational Health
Lunch
11:45am-1:00 pm 		Box Lunch Provided
Worker Health and Safety Experiences Voices from the field;
Jack Doppelt, Professor, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, Moderator
Workers from several workplaces and backgrounds discuss how health and safety issues have impacted their lives
1:00-2:30 pm Five Concurrent Breakouts: Session I
White paper reactions from invited stakeholders followed by a facilitated discussion to provide input and recommendations by conference attendees
2:30-3:45 pm Poster session: Interactive viewing of posters of participants' research
3:00-3:15 pm Refreshments in poster area
3:45-5:15 pm Five Concurrent Breakouts: Session II
7:00-10:00 pm Off-site Cultural Event with food at the Chicago History Museum
Centennial Celebration of the historic Alice Hamilton Illinois Survey
Thursday, September 15
8:15-9:00 am Continental breakfast provided
9:00-10:00 am Plenary Presentation: Interventions that Work,
Moderator Sharon Beard, NIEHS WETP Project
This panel will have four presentations describing programs that have demonstrated success in working on existing inequities in Occupational Safety and Health. They will be a sampling of projects from around the country that demonstrate the activity and energy making progress in this field. Panelists will describe their projects and the lessons learned that continue to allow them to make progress in the area of OSH Disparities.
10:15-11:30 am Breakout Session III: How do we tie it all together? Next steps
11:45 am-12:45 pm Box Lunch provided/OHD summary and wrap up and Comments by Ellen Rosskam PhD, MPH, Expert and contributing author Employment and working conditions including occupation, unemployment and migrant workers for WHO Regional Office for Europe's Review of social determinants of health and the health divide in the WHO-European Region.
12:45-1:30 pm Federal Panel on Environmental Justice Listening Session: What is the role of the work environment in a comprehensive EJ program?- 10 minute comments by DOL, EPA, and HHS and questions
1:30-2:00 pm Table top activity to generate input to the EJ initiative
2:00-2:45 pm Report back and open mike for comments
2:45-3:00 J. Nadine Gracia, Closing and next steps
Photos courtesy of Earl Dotter.