AMNH Panel Discusses Children's Health and Ecosystems, 4/30

As part of the International Year of Biodiversity Series, a panel discussion will be held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City on April 30, 2010.  The topic the panel will discuss is titled The Role of Biodiversity and Healthy Ecosystems in Supporting Child Health.  It will highlight the role of biodiversity and ecosystems in meeting U.N. Millennium Development Goals to reduce child mortality and to promote child health and wellbeing. 

 For this event, the American Museum of Natural History's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation (CBC) is partnering with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and United Nations Children's Development Programme, and Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Scheduled panelists for this discussion will be:

Aaron Bernstein, Harvard Center for Health and Global Environment, the lead author/co-editor of Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity

Sigrid Hahn, associate director, Mount Sinai Global Health Center and assistant professor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Montira J. Pongsiri, environmental scientist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Erika Vohman, director, The Equilibrium Fund

The panel discussion will take place in the Samuel J. and Ethel LeFrak Theater, American Museum of Natural History.  This event is free and open to the public. Press interested in attending should contact kphillips@amnh.org.