Vulnerability of Children to Environmental Assaults . Philip Landrigan, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Key Environmental Issues Facing Children in the Region

	Water and Sanitation. Horst Otterstetter, International Association for Sanitary Engineering
	Air pollution. Marcelo Korc, CEPIS/PAHO
	Pollutants, poisonings and injuries. Jenny Pronczuk, WHO
	Waste management / child scavengers, Alfredo Gastal, Forum Nacional de Lixo e Cidadania
	Vector borne infections. Héctor Gómez Dantes, Mexico's Ministry of Health
	POPs and endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Terri Damstra, WHO

Open Discussion: Practical Tools

	Marta Bryce, CEPIS/PAHO
	Hernán Delgado, INCAP/PAHO
	Henry Hernández, Dominican Republic/PAHO

Initiating a Network

	Edward H. Chu, Environmental Protection Agency
	Irena Buka, Commission for Environmental Cooperation
	Diego González, CEPIS/PAHO
	Lilian Corra, INCHES/ISDE

April 10

Closer Look: The Development of Country Profiles on Environmental Threats to the Health of Children

	Guilherme Franco Netto, Brasil's Ministry of Health
	Sydney Lockhart, Dominican Republic's Ministry of Health
	Claudia Velásquez Melgar, Guatemala's Ministry of Health
	Leonora Rojas Bracho, Mexico's National Institute of Ecology
	Juana F. Sueldo, Peru's Ministry of Health
	Cristina Alonso, Uruguay's Ministry of Health

The Health Sector is at the Front Line

	Irena Buka, Commission for Environmental Cooperation
	Juan Carlos Bossio, PAHO
	Daniel Beltramino, Argentina's Pediatric Association

Information and Indicators Boost the Policy Agenda

	Eva Rehfuess, WHO
	Ed Chu, Environmental Protection Agency
	Luiz Augusto Galvão, PAHO

From Research and Science to Prevention and Reduction of Exposure

	Ellen Silbergeld, Johns Hopkins University
	Fernando Díaz Barriga, San Luis de Potosi's Autonomous University

April 11

	“The contribution of pollutants to the cost of disease in children”. Philip Landrigan, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
	Children exposures to environmental risks: windows of vulnerability, Jenny Pronczuk, WHO
	Reflections on the costs of environmental health and its impact on children, Margarita Petrera, PAHO