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DAY SESSION

8:30 am – Welcome

8:45 am – Keynote Speaker: LaTricea D. Adams, MAT, EdS, Founder CEO and President, Black Millennials 4 Flint

9:15 am – Panel: Advancing Environmental Justice Through Lead Poisoning Prevention

Moderator: Chavaysha Chaney, Program Associate, UrbanKind Institute

Panelists

• Jamil Bey, PhD, CEO and President, UrbanKind Institute
• NaTisha Washington, Environmental Justice Organizer, One PA
• LaTricea D. Adams, MAT, EdS, Founder CEO and President, Black Millennials 4 Flint
• Masoud Sayles, Farm Program Manager, Hilltop Urban Farm

10:15 am – Panel: Lead-Safe Drinking Water

Moderator: Talor Musil, Health Policy Manager, Women for a Healthy Environment

Panelists

• Suzanne Novak, Staff Attorney, EarthJustice
• Will Pickering, CEO, Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority
• Yanna Lambrinidou, PhD, Campaign for Lead Free Water
• Ashley Comans, Former Wilkinsburg School Board Director and Wilkinsburg Penn Joint Water Authority ratepayer

11:15 am – Discussion: Where do we go from here? Community Solutions to Lead in Paint, Dust, Soil and Water

Moderator: Oliver Morrison, Health and Environment reporter, PublicSource.org

Panelists

• Becca Simon, Project Manager: Policy & Land Stewardship, Grounded Strategies
• Curtis Da’Von Parker, Western PA Organizing Director, Clean Water Action
• Hanna Beightley, Healthy Homes Program Manager, Women for a Healthy Environment
• Juanita Brown, MSN, RN, CCM, Lead Community Outreach Nurse, Allegheny County Health Department
• Anna Coleman, Environmental Justice Coalition Organizer, Pittsburgh United
• Carol Hardeman, Executive Director, Hill District Consensus Group

12:00 – 12:30 pm – BREAK

12:30 pm – Presentation: Allegheny County Data

Moderator: Noble A-W Maseru, PhD, MPH, Professor, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health; Director, Social Justice, Racial Equity and Faculty Engagement; Member, Black Equity Coalition; Member, Pittsburgh Collaboratory for Water Research, Education, and Outreach

Speakers

• LuAnn Brink, Ph.D., Chief Epidemiologist and Deputy Director, Allegheny County Health Department
• Brian Kelly, Environmental Health Administrator, Housing and Community Environment, Allegheny County Health Department
• Dan Duffy, P.E., Lead Service Line Replacement Program Manager, Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority
• Jennifer Saks, Allegheny Lead Safe Homes Program Manager, Allegheny County Economic Development

1:15 pm – Panel: Local Municipal Solutions

Moderator: Ashleigh Deemer, Deputy Director, PennEnvironment

Panelists

• Pittsburgh City Councilperson Erika Strassburger, District 8
• Craig Walt, Bureau Chief for Lancaster Lead Safety and Community Development
• Colleen McCauley, RN, BSN, MPH, Health Policy Director, Children First
• George Gould, Counsel Attorney, Community Legal Services
• Anna Falicov, City of Buffalo Law Department

2:30 pm – Panel: Strategies for Creating Lead-Safe Counties

Moderator: Michelle Naccarati-Chapkis, Executive Director, Women for a Healthy Environment

Panelists

• Rayid Ghani, Distinguished Career Professor in the Machine Learning Department and the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University
• Nick Hart, Assistant Director, Louisville Metro Public Health & Wellness
• Larry Brooks, CCEO, Board Member of the California Association Of Code Enforcement Officers and Director of the Alameda County Healthy Homes Department Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
• Komal Sheth, MPH, Staff Analyst, City of Houston Health Department Bureau of Community & Children’s Environmental Health
• Debra Lewis, LMSW, Lead Program Coordinator, Onondaga County Health Department

3:30 pm – Funding Strategies

• Matt Ammon, Director, Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes
• Amanda Reddy, Executive Director, National Center for Healthy Housing
• Carin Speidel, State Administrative Manager, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Lead Services Section

4:30 pm – Award Ceremony and Recognition

5:00 pm – BREAK

Evening Sessions – Concurrent

6:00 – Session A
How Physicians and Healthcare Providers Play a Role in Lead Poisoning Prevention

Moderator: Karin Shafer, Clinical Director, Alliance for Infants and Toddlers

Panelists

• Diego Chaves-Gnecco, MD, Pediatrician; Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Director and Founder, Salud Para Niños, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
• Kevin Osterhoudt, MD, MSCE, FAAP, FACMT, Attending Physician, Division of Emergency Medicine and Medical Director at The Poison Control Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)
• Rebecca Vidak, Clinical Quality Management Consultant – EPSDT, Gateway Health

6:00 – Session B
A Renter’s Right to a Lead-Safe Environment

Moderator: Jason Beery, Director of Applied Research, UrbanKind Institute

Panelists

• Kevin Quisenberry, Esq., Litigation Director, Community Justice Project
• Meghan Tighe, Staff Attorney, Neighborhood Legal Services
• Carol Hardeman, Executive Director, Hill District Consensus Group