Cleaning for a Healthy Indoor Environment for Children
Filed under Conferences and Symposia
Posted by Web Team, October 07, 2005
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The Center for Hygiene and Health in Home and Community welcomes you to our professional education conference -
“Cleaning for a Healthy Indoor Environment for Children”
Dates: Monday and Tuesday, October 24 and 25, 2005
Location: Simmons College
Linda K. Paresky Conference Center, 3rd Floor
300 The Fenway
Boston, MA 02115
This event is free for the Simmons Community, but you must register!
To Register, visit us on the web at http://www.simmons.edu/hygieneandhealth/conference/ .
Click on the link “Cleaning for a Healthy Indoor Environment for Children (PDF)” to download our brochure, which includes all registration materials!
Important Offerings
10.5 Contact Hours are provided for nurses!
Simmons College is an approved provider of continuing nursing education
by the Massachusetts Association of Registered Nurses, Inc., an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
1.5 CM (certificate maintenance) points for are provided for industrial hygienists!
Generous fee reduction for government employees, please contact Liz Scott on 617-521-2664 or scotte2@simmons.edu
Synopsis:
The conference will discuss the benefits of cleaning and disinfection in homes, schools, daycare centers, sports facilities, and camps etc. to reduce the risk of infection acquisition/transmission and to aid in the prevention and control of allergy-causing molds. The conference will also address issues related to cleaning including antibiotic resistance, the Hygiene Hypothesis, limiting toxicity and on-going research into new solutions. The aim is to present new information and practical approaches.
Speakers include faculty from Simmons College departments of Biology, Nursing, and Health Studies, as well as, speakers from the University of Ottawa (Center for Research on Environmental Microbiology), Harvard School of Public Health, Brigham and Young University, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine among others.
For More Information
Please email rachel.ruggles@simmons.edu for more information.
