WHAT: 2002 Public Health Milestones and Future Challenges

WHEN: July 9 (9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.) and July 10 (9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.)

WHERE: Holiday Inn City Centre, 300 E. Ohio St., Chicago

WHY: Part of the Illinois Department of Public Health’s 125th anniversary. The symposium is for physicians, nurses, allied health personnel, state and local health department staff and others involved in public health and medicine to learn about the history of public health in Illinois and the challenges for the future.

WHO: Presenters include:

• Mohammad Akhter, M.D., executive director, American Public Health Association (July 9).
• Kaye Bender, deputy state health officer, Mississippi State Department of Health (July 9).
• Georges Benjamin, M.D., president, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (July 10).
• Judith Miller, author/senior writer, New York Times (July 10).
• Shelley A. Hearne, executive director, Trust for America’s Health (July 9)

CONTACT: Tom Schafer
217-782-5750
FAX: 217-782-3987
TTY: 800-546-0466