Below is a select listing of upcoming events and conferences. For a complete listing, go to the NCHPAD calendar at http://www.ncpad.org/events/index.php.
Events
Abilities Expo, Metro Detroit, August 18-20, 2006
Abilities Expo provides information on independent and assisted living products for persons with disabilities. The Abilities Team is seeking speaker proposals for 2006. Visit http://www.abilitiesexpo.com to submit a proposal and to learn more about upcoming expos.
World Offroad Handcycle Championships, Crested Butte, CO, August 26-27, 2006
United States Handcycling Federation (USHF) announces a partnership with the Adaptive Sports Center of Crested Butte and One Off Titanium for the first-ever World Offroad Handcycle Championships. The event will feature athletes riding any variety of handcycles equipped for the offroad riding (such as the One Off Titanium).
Go to http://www.ushf.org/offroad.html for more information.
Conferences
National Health Promotion Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, September 12-14, 2006
The 2006 National Health Promotion Conference is the first joint conference presented by CDC's Coordinating Center for Health Promotion (CoCHP) and its constituent groups: the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD), and the Office of Genomics and Disease Prevention (OGDP). With a theme of "Innovations in Health Promotion: New Avenues for Collaboration," the conference will provide an unprecedented opportunity to create new partnerships and strengthen existing ones to move forward with a national health promotion and wellness agenda.
For more information, go to http://www.cdc.gov, or call 770-488-6509.
2006 Cooper Institute Conference Series, Dallas, TX, October 26-28, 2006
The 2006 Cooper Institute Conference Series, "Parks, Recreation, and Public Health: Collaborative Frameworks for Promoting Physical Activity," will focus on developing collaborative frameworks for researchers, practitioners, and educators in the fields of public health, parks, and recreation. For more information and to register, go to
http://www.cooperinst.org.