First Kids Risk Symposium A symposium for child health professionals, journalists, educators, business leaders, policy makers, parents, and people who love kids March 26 and 27, 2003 8:00 AM to 5:30
PM Meeting Information: From birth through adolescence, today's children face a wide range of risks that change as they grow. The Kids Risk Project focuses on understanding the risks to children recognizing the importance of using an analytical approach to characterize and address their risks. Ultimately the project will provide a risk catalogue for children's risks that will help children, parents, policy makers, and others compare children's risks and strategies for reducing those risks. Currently the Kids Risk Project has on-going research in several areas including injury prevention, medical risks, environmental hazards, and depiction of risks in entertainment media, and this symposium included release of two of the project's research studies on: (1) The role of bath seats in unintentional infant bathtub drowning deaths and (2) How Much Do Kids Count in Corporate Board Rooms? Results from the First Survey of Fortune 1000 Companies. This symposium included presentations of Kids Risk Project
research released at the meeting and presentations from leaders
in business, government, consumer organizations, foundations,
and the health community. The objectives of the symposium
included: Final Meeting Agenda and Speaker Biographies (this is what you missed!): March 26, 2003 8:00 Registration and continental breakfast - Selected music composed by Julia Carey, Junior at Milton Academy8:30 “Welcomes” Barry R. Bloom, PhD, Professor and Dean, Harvard School of Public Health Marie McCormick, MD, ScD Sumner and Esther Feldberg Professor and Chair of Maternal and Child Health, Harvard School of Public Health 9:00 “Overview of the KidsRisk Project - Empowering kids, parents, and policy makers with information about risk and release of KidsRisk Project research ” – Kimberly Thompson, ScD 10:45 “Understanding our commitments - How much do kids count?” – William O'Hare, PhD, Kids Count Coordinator, The Annie E. Casey Foundation 11:10 “How much do kids count in the board room? Results of a new study” – Kimberly Thompson, ScD 11:30 “Corporate leadership and improving children's lives: A business perspective on this long-standing commitment” – Michele Courton Brown, President, FleetBoston Financial Foundation 12:00 “The business of making education effective and entertaining” – Joan Lawrence, Toy Industry Association for Tom Kalinske, President, Knowledge Universe and Chairman, LeapFrog Enterprises 12:30 Lunch “Reaching out to children with positive messages to encourage good choices” – Neil Shulman, MD, the real Doc Hollywood with Eddie Chapman, Chicago Police Department and Ann S. Kelly, Founder and Executive Director, Hands Are Not For Hurting Project 1:45 “Collaboration and the role of research in the middle of the consumer-industry-regulator triangle” – Kimberly Thompson, ScD 2:00 “The importance of good analyses of children's risks in consumer education and advocacy” – Heather Paul, PhD, Executive Director, National SAFE KIDS 2:45 “The importance of good analyses of children's risks in consumer product regulation” – Harold Stratton, Chairman, Consumer Product Safety Commission 3:30 Panel discussion: How can we use good science and risk analysis to work together and better manage children's risks? Michele Courton Brown, Heather Paul, Hal Stratton, Bill Walsh from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Ed Chu from the US Environmental Protection Agency, Clark Nardinelli from the Food and Drug Administration, Sean Palfrey, MD, President of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and Rick Locker, Locker, Greenberg, & Brainin 5:00 “Highlights of the day” – George Lundberg, MD, Editor, MedGenMed and Special Healthcare Advisor to the Chairman and CEO of WebMD March 27, 2003 Approximately 150 people attended the meeting. The meeting also featured the art work of Linda Hatch's students. The Kids Risk Project thanks the following sponsors for their support: |