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.