Session: Vector Borne Disease and Public Health Protection by the Federal Sector (2009 ESA Annual Meeting, December 13-16, 2009)

Vector Borne Disease and Public Health Protection by the Federal Sector

Wednesday, December 16, 2009: 8:00 AM-4:45 PM

Room 105, First Floor (Convention Center)

Organizer :

Candace A. Brassard

8:00 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:05 AM

Biodiversity and human health: science and policy integration

Montira Pongsiri, US Environmental Protection Agency; Gary Foley, US Environmental Protection Agency

8:25 AM

Domestic mosquito management and insecticide resistance programs within CDC

Janet McAllister, Center for Disease Control

8:45 AM

Managing vector-borne diseases on federal lands: protecting public health and the environment

Howard S. Ginsberg, USGS, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center

9:05 AM

Even the mosquitoes are protected: practicing public health within the preservation mission of the National Park Service

Charles Higgins, National Park Service

9:25 AM

The role of EPA grants and partnerships in confronting public health threats

Tom Brennan, US Environmental Protection Agency; Frank Ellis, US Environmental Protection Agency; Clara Fuentes, US Environmental Protection Agency

9:45 AM

Break

10:00 AM

Panel Discussion: Integrated pest management of invertebrate vectors causing diseases

10:20 AM

Bioassay diversity: testing of tick repellents

John Carroll, USDA-ARS

10:40 AM

Integrating personal protection for the public

Daniel A. Strickman, USDA - ARS

11:00 AM

Intermission

1:30 PM

Public health pesticide benefit assessment at EPA

David Brassard, US Environmental Protection Agency

1:50 PM

Vector control and registration of public health pesticides

Clara Fuentes, US Environmental Protection Agency

2:10 PM

EPA’s evaluation of product performance

Mark Suarez, US Environmental Protection Agency

2:30 PM

Topical and clothing repellent assays: Can standardized in vitro methods be developed from in vivo methods?

Ulrich Bernier, USDA - ARS; Natasha Elejalde, USDA-ARS-CMAVE; Donald R. Barnard, USDA; Melynda Perry, Natick Soldier Center

2:50 PM

Chemicals derived from botanical sources have potential as repellents and biocides against ticks that transmit Lyme disease spirochetes

E.B. Gabrielle Dietrich, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

3:10 PM

Chemical ecology of bed bugs

Mark F. Feldlaufer, USDA - ARS; Michael Domingue, Pennsylvania State University; Kamlesh R. Chauhan, USDA - ARS; Jeffrey Aldrich, USDA-ARS

3:30 PM

Break

3:45 PM

The deployed warfighter protection research program

Stanton E. Cope, United States Navy

4:05 PM

EPA’s efforts to improve public health protection from vector borne disease and other pests of concern

Candace Brassard, US Environmental Protection Agency

4:25 PM

Panel Discussion: Federal role in evaluating methods to control invertebrate vectors causing disease and other pests to improve public health protection

4:45 PM

Concluding Remarks

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