Program

Daily Schedule at a Glance

Builder or public health advocate, architect or community outreach worker, public officials or private sector executives — the 2011 National Healthy Homes Conference program captures dynamic opportunities that are designed to inform, influence and inspire across a wide spectrum of attendee disciplines.

Please view the Daily Schedule at a Glance to help you plan your week.

Session Descriptions and Tracks

The National Healthy Homes Conference serves the diverse interests of our attendees, allowing you to determine the sessions you choose to be most beneficial to your trade.

With over 150 sessions from more than 200 organizations, there is something for everyone. Click on each track below to get a complete description of each session.

Click here for a complete listing of all session descriptions.

1. Healthy Communities

   Explores evidence-based community design strategies for creating neighborhoods and outdoor spaces that promote public health and encourage healthy lifestyles for all ages.

2. The Power of Policy

   Presents creative ways housing and health policy reform at the state, local and federal level can make our communities and homes safe and healthy.

3. House Calls

   Examines the role health and housing professionals can play in delivering primary prevention and promoting public health by addressing the connections between the homes we live in and the negative health outcomes they cause, such as asthma, lead poisoning and unintentional injury.

4. Healthy by Design

   Looks at how housing design and construction methods and practices, including universal design, can promote health and safety of all ages, while maintaining affordability without compromising on function and form.

5. Healthy Green

   Expands the focus of the green building and design movement toward stronger consideration of the impacts of green design on resident health and how to move beyond green to healthy green.

6. Sounding the Call

   Examines the many marketing, outreach and education strategies and opportunities available to make communities and homes healthier.

7. Just the Facts

   Explores the latest research establishing the links between housing and health, and provides the basis for effective methods to be employed to make housing and communities healthier.

8. Affordably Healthy

   Presents emerging trends and examples that promote affordable housing and communities that are healthy, safe, and sustainable, including strategies to assist families in purchasing, renting and rehabilitating safe and affordable housing.

Program Guide

The Conference will kick-off at 9 am on Monday, June 20 and will end at noon on Thursday, June 23. Please view the Program Guide to get the latest information on the following:

• Plenary Speakers
• "Building a Healthy Neighborhood" Volunteer Event
• Complete listing of session titles & presenters

Please check back for regular updates.