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Pioneering Webcast on April 22
With the goal to advance the knowledge of environmental
factors challenging human health and propose worldwide
solutions, Nurture Nature Foundation plans to webcast
in April a global forum on "Your Health & The Environment."
Co- sponsored by the Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic
Medicine, the event will be planned in collaboration with
Dr. Mitchell Gaynor, author of "Nurture Nature Nurture
Health," and the chair of Complementary and Integrative
Medicine at Cornell Medical.
"A revolutionary change in international networking, an
increasing concern for global health, and an electronic
infrastructure for education and research makes a Global
Forum for Environment and Health most opportune," says
Ted Kheel of Nurture Nature Foundation. The forum will
allow a wide spectrum of speakers, from senior decision
makers in the World Health community to students preparing
for health professions, to systematically address the
most critical issues in World health that are impacting
human health locally.
"Your Health & Environment" will utilize as the theme,
"Nurture Nature, Nurture Health;" and use as a reference
a newly released edition devoted to world health and the
environment. Content areas for the first four seminars
will be: 1. Cancer and the Environment; 2. Water Quality
and Vector Born Diseases; 3. Environmental Disasters and
Epidemics; and 4. Poverty and Emerging Health Issues.
In the virtual forum , participants will have the opportunity
to join an electronic network of scholars dedicated to
life long learning and research in environmental health
issues.
The Global Forum will include distinguished lectures engaging
leaders in health care, leading scientists in environment
health, and leaders in the public and private policy making,
which will improve health and related environmental issues
worldwide. The Virtual Forum will involve those engaged
in or preparing for health professions.
The venue for delivery will be world wide video conferences,
virtual chat, virtual library, video streaming and electronic
course management system based on a national award winning
protocol entitled "global seminar," a protocol that has
a seven year proven success history in addressing global
issues. The events associated with the forum will emanate
from international locations where distinguished experts
are headquartered. The live videoconferences will be broadcast
to over 100 sites and made available to literally throughout
the world by video streaming over the Internet.
A vehicle for an international virtual discussion has
already been established by a national awarding winning
and internationally recognized Global Seminar on Sustainability
and the Environment. Featured at the UN World Summit on
Sustainability in 2001 and adopted by over 40 universities
including major Research I institutions around the world,
the Global Seminar has established a reputation as a community
of scholars to advance education and research. An electronic
infrastructure for managing interactive videoconferences,
video streaming, a virtual library to support discussion
sessions and Internet based threaded discussion and chat
sessions provide the venue easily adapted to a Global
Forum on Health and the Environment.
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