ONE HEALTH: ONE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT CONFERENCE
Our 2nd Conference Dedicated to Welcoming Environmental Health into the One Health Concept
ORGANIZATION OF THE ONE HEALTH: ONE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT CONFERENCE
Globally, the Environmental Health Sciences are now recognized as a critical component for assessing and protecting human, animal and ecological health. Practitioners, educators, and scientists from many countries spanning at least five continents will gather in Montego Bay for a meeting of the Americas Group of the International Federation of Environmental Health (IFEH) hosted by the Jamaica Association of Public Health Inspectors (JAPHI).
Dr. Henroy Scarlett
Conference Chair
Chair, Int'l Fed. of Environmental Health Region of the Americas;
Lecturer, University of West Indies-Mona, Dept. of Community Health & Psychiatry
Jamaica
Dr. Jason W. Marion
Conference Technical Chair;
Associate Professor,
Eastern Kentucky University, Dept. of Environmental Health Science, United States
Dr. Carolyn Harvey, RS, CIH
Past-President, National Environmental Health Assoc.;
Professor & Dept. Chair (Ret.), Eastern Kentucky University, Dept. of Environmental Health Science, United States
Mr. Neil Grinwis
President & CEO,
Hedgerow Software Ltd.;
Guest Lecturer, Concordia University of Alberta
Canada
Dr. Gary Brown, CIH, RS
2nd VP, Nat'l Env. Health Assoc.
President, JHB Consultants;
Lecturer, University of West Indies at Mona;
Professor, Eastern Kentucky University
United States / Jamaica
Mr. Mahesh Patel, M.Sc.
Health Hazard Manager, Healthy Environments Mgr., Toronto Public Health;
Faculty, Ryerson University
Canada
Dr. David T. Dyjack, CIH
Executive Director & CEO,
National Environmental Health Association (NEHA)
Denver, Colorado
United States
Mr. Oneil Brown
Honorary Secretary
Jamaica Association of Public Health Inspectors
CONFERENCE GOAL
Our primary goal is to exchange knowledge and data to further enhance understanding of the role of the environmental health discipline in One Health issues globally. In addition, the conference aims to allow tremendous networking opportunities between EH practitioners with researchers, students, clinicians, educators, policy leaders, and industry partners. Submit an abstract, save the date, and plan to come learn, share, and have fun in Jamaica!
HISTORY OF CONFERENCE
JAPHI and the IFEH Americas Collaboration had a successful conference in 2017. Due to many requests, we are pleased to again host the One Health | One Global Environment Conference. Read a summary of our last conference in this article from the Journal of Environmental Health here. View the 2017 programme page here.
Ms. Karen Brown
Public Relations Officer and International Committee Member, Jamaica Association of Public Health Inspectors; Regional Environmental Health Officer
Jamaica
Dr. Priscilla Oliver
President, National Environmental Health Assoc.;
Chair, Nat'l Cmte. on Diversity in Environmental Health;
Faculty at Morehouse College; Faculty at Spelman College
United States
Mr. Mel Knight, Cal REHS
Past-President, National Environmental Health Assoc.;
Butte Wildfire Community Liaison, Calaveras Co., California; Director (Ret.), Sacramento Co. Environmental Mgmt Dept.; Past-Chair Americas Group of IFEH
United States
Dr. Sylvanus Thompson
Assoc. Director, Toronto Public Health; Lifetime Member & Former President of the Jamaica Association of Public Health Inspectors; Past Board Member for the Jamaica Diaspora Advisory Board
Mr. Chuck Treser, MPH, REHS
Chair, Global Environmental Health Faculty Forum;
Principal Lecturer Emeritus, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, Univ. of Washington; President, American Academy of Sanitarians; Exec. Dir. AEHAP
United States
Mr. Rowan Stephens, MBA
Past-President, JAPHI;
Public Health Inspector, Westmoreland Health Dept.
Jamaica
Mr. Norbert Campbell, MPH
Lecturer, University of West Indies at Mona; UWI-OESH Occupational and Environmental
& Safety and Health Programme
Jamaica
OUR ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (ACTIVELY BEING UPDATED FOR 2023)