The topics of the symposium included panels on life as a rookie, player conduct, H.I.V. prevention and safe sex, financial education and substance abuse.
The symposium included talks on medical knowledge in Burns's day, creativity and mental health and medical theories about Burns's death.
The specific recommendations of the Symposium included the following.
The major discussion themes for the symposium included global sustainability, green development, large-scale disaster, and integrated risk governance, which were pursued in a context of an increasingly interrelated hazard-risk environment.
Knowledge gaps identified in discussions during the symposium include: identifying questions that can be usefully addressed within a framework emphasizing connectivity; identifying feedbacks that enhance and limit connectivity; and quantification – of diverse aspects of connectivity, of thresholds of connectivity, and of interactions among different types of connectivity.
Institutional support for the symposium included the Electric Power Research Institute, National Center for Toxicological Research, and EPA/National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory and the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response.
The 198 HCP participants attending the symposium included mostly nurses (40%%) and physicians (43 %).
Speakers at the symposium include: the Managing Director of the Bob Marley Foundation Dr. Desta Meghoo-Peddie, Chair of the African Union Commission Alpha Konare and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and West African singer Angelique Kidjo.
Major themes of the Symposium included the increasing role of image-guided therapeutic interventions, the central role of quality and safety, and the emergence of molecular imaging and nanotechnology.
The recommendations that came from the symposium include the need for additional community-based research that will support efforts to achieve environmental reproductive justice, and the need to support policy regulations that will better protect indigenous communities from both local and more widespread sources of environmental contamination.
