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September 27, 2005

Environmental Justice for All Children

Dr. Robert D. Bullard, Building Healthy Communities for Children: The Physical and Social Environments, A President's Interdisciplinary Academic Initiative, September 26-27, 2005. University of Minnesota School of Public Health.

Dr. Bullard discusses problems of racial and economic justice inherent in toxic and ecological disasters.

More information is available at Clark Atlanta University, Environmental Justice Resource Center.

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September 23, 2005

Seven Countries Study

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This short video, edited from Dr. Henry Blackburn's footage of the Seven Countries Study, was created for a Web site devoted to the history of Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology: www.epi.umn.edu/cvdepi.

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September 14, 2005

The Role of Physical Activity in the Etiology of the Obesity Epidemic

Kathryn Schmitz Kathryn H. Schmitz, PhD, MPH, Keys Symposium on Nutrition and Health: The International Obesity Epidemic, September 12-13, 2004. University of Minnesota School of Public Health.

Dr. Schmitz discusses how much energy a person expends doing various daily physical tasks and how different levels of physical activity can contribute to or help prevent obesity.