wren conference

Archive of selected past presentations​

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wren 2018

Michael Heumann, OR and Daniel Smith, CA

"WREN: Historical perspective and current relevance"

 

Jennifer Ha, CA

"Non-agricultural pesticide illness in California, 2006-2015"

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Lauren Freelander, WA and Lillian Morris, WA

"Washington Tracking Network: Validating lead and radon risk exposure maps"

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Michael Heumann, OR

"Disaster Epidemiology: Overview of tools, methods, and approaches"

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Daniel Smith, CA

"A series of unfortunate cases--What can we learn?"

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wren 2012

Lauren Joe, CA

“The Deadly Stripper: A Survey of Paint Stripping Products at Local Hardware and Paint Stores Prompted by Worker Deaths from Methylene Chloride Exposure”

 

Danny Kwon, CA

“Welcome to the Hotel California: Chlorine Gas Release at a Hotel- California, 2012”

 

Svetlana Smorodinsky, CA

“Spilling the Beans about HazMat Spills in California”
 

Shelley DuTeaux, CA

 “The Emerging Threat of Chemical-Assisted Suicides”

Dennis McDermot, WA

“Sub-County Estimation of Chronic Disease Risk: Asthma, Diabetes, Obesity”
 

Craig Wolff, CA

“Drinking Water Systems Geographic Reporting Tool”
 

Steven Macdonald, WA

“Data Policy Issues in the Tracking Network: A Potpourri of Conundrums?”
 

Judy Bardin, WA

“Expanding Data Availability and Developing a New Indicator for Outdoor Air Quality on the Washington Tracking Network”

Denise Bonilla, CA

“Changes to Tick-Borne Disease Public Health Messaging in Response to an Emerging Rickettsial Pathogen”
 

Meredith Towle, CO

“Review of Work-related Poisoning Exposures Reported to a Poison Center Helpline, Colorado, 2000-2010”
 

Lauren Jenks, WA

“Bringing Environmental Public Health Home: Addressing Environmental Health Hazards in Homes in Washington State”

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wren 2010

David Solet, WA 

"Health Disparities in King County: How Do We Compare? (Work in Progress)"

 

Marilyn Sitaker, WA and Dennis McDermott, WA

“Chronic Disease Disparities in Washington State:
Exploring Changes Over Time”

 

Angela Kemple, WA

“Trends in Obesity among Black Adults in Washington
State, 1990-2008”

Mandy Green, OR

“Putting Young Worker Health on the Map: Occupational Injuries to Oregon Workers 24 Years and Younger, 2000 - 2008”

 

Suan Barnes, CA

“Using and Improving Early Aberration Reporting System (EARS) for Local Public Health Biosurveillance”

 

Daniel Rubado, OR

“Measuring the Built Environment – Indicators for Urban Oregon”

 

Svetlana Smorodinsky, CA

“Everything You Wanted to Know about Zip Code Use in Public Health and Were Afraid to Ask”

Dennis McDermott, WA

“Socioeconomic Risk of Chronic Disease in
Washington State: a Multi-Level Modeling Approach”

 

Curtis Cude, OR

“Harmful Algae Blooms in Oregon: Don’t Get Slimed!”

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wren 2009

Michael Heumann, OR and Michelle Barber, OR

“Disaster Epidemiology at the State and National Level: Applying Public Health Tracking to Emergency Preparedness and Climate Change Issues”

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Susan Payne, CA

“Lowering the Blood Lead Level (BLL) of Concern in Adults: California Activities”

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Amy Arcus-Arth, CA 

“Background and Update on Melamine: Fun with
Chemistry”

 

Assunta Riteini, CA

“Cosmetic Product Reporting in California: The 2005
California Safe Cosmetics Act”

 

Dina Dobraca, CA

“Assess Cell Phone and Cordless Phone Risks and Craft Advice”

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Nino Yanga, CA

“The Light Brown Apple Moth in California: Planes, Pheromones and Public Health”

 

Julie Plagenhoef, OR

“Vision for the Future: A Real Time Disease Surveillance Program with the Oregon Poison Center and State Public Health”

 

Kinnery Naik, CA

“Agricultural Burning at the California-Mexico Border: A Collaborative Effort to Address Air Quality and Community Health- 2009”

 

Nancy Goff, OR and Kirsten Aird, OR 

”Building Capacity for Health Impact Assessment in Oregon”

 

Daniel Smith, CA

“More on Overlapping Confidence Intervals, and Ways to Graphically Present Estimates and Intervals”

 

Svetlana Smorodinsky, CA

“To Map Or Not To Map: A Brief Overview of GIS Tools for a Non-Technical Person”

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wren 2008

Yvonne Boudreau, CO

“Western Regional Focus of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health”

 

Michael Heumann, OR

“The evolution of emergency preparedness in public health”

Rodney D. Garland, OR

“Integrated GIS solutions, Oregon Public Health Division’s experiences”

Eric Ossiander, WA

“The effect of vehicle incompatibility on motor vehicle fatalities”

Heidi Purcell, OR

“An overview of non-motor vehicle bicycle crashes in Oregon”

 

Kathleen Fitzsimmons, CA

“Occupational heat-related illness in California”

Kathleen L. Vork, CA

“A simplified steady state modeling approach for estimating Benzo(a)pyrene and lead in human milk resulting from long term chronic exposure to the mother”

 

Sumi Hoshiko, CA

“Radionuclides in baby teeth: environmental exposure markers and association with childhood cancer"

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Theodora Tsongas, OR and Laura Boswell, OR

“Risks of acute injury for responders to hazardous materials releases in Oregon, 1993-2005”
 

Lani Kent, CA 

“An evaluation of fish mercury advisories: relaying complicated and sometimes contradictory information to the public”

 

Svetlana Smorodinsky, CA

“Fish consumption and mercury exposure among pregnant women in a Sacramento, CA clinic – WREN Part II”

Elisabeth Maxwell, OR 

“Lead in Mexican candy in Oregon"

Mandy Green, OR

“Pyrethrin and pyrethroid illnesses in the Pacific Northwest: A five year review”
 

Steven MacDonald, WA

"Creating a fully de-indentfied public use dataset (PUDS): Policy and practice"

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wren 2007

Steven Macdonald, WA

“Emergency response in outbreaks of non-infectious conditions: a story of three outbreaks”

Roger Trent, CA 

“Heat-related deaths associated with a severe heat wave — California, July 2006”
 

Amy Zlot, OR

“Family history of diabetes: Incorporating genomics data into the BRFSS”

 

Marilyn Sitaker, WA

“Socioeconomic disparities in health behaviors, access, and processes of care in Washington state adults with diabetes”

Robert Schlag, CA 

“Evaluation of health effects of recycled waste tires in playgrounds”
 

Shelley DuTeaux, CA

“The Sacramento train trestle fire: How to keep public health interests from being railroaded in an emergency”
 

Xiaodong Sun

“Introduction to public health emergency response and preparedness in China & Shanghai”

Sharon Seidel Lee, CA and Sandy McNeel, CA

“Interstate Chemical Terrorism Workgroup”

Svetlana Smorodinsky, CA

“California Environmental Health Tracking Program tools: Take Google, mix in pesticides, and voila! — a web-mapping service is born”

 

Rachel Broadwin, CA

“To parcel geocode or Not to parcel geocode: That is the question”

Luz Kirsch, CA

“Lead brought home from work in California — Identification and prevention”

Lori Copan, CA

“Mercury exposure from fish consumption among low-income pregnant women"

Victor Anderson, CA

“Radiological dispersion devices: Urban pathways analysis — challenges and issues”

Raymond Neutra, CA

”Bayesian and Toulminian critique of the IARC hazard identification scheme”

Heidi Purcell, OR 

“An evaluation of the adolescent suicide attempt data system: An issue of definition and nomenclature”
 

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