NEHA November 2024 Journal of Environmental Health

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Sharing the Conference Experience

Social media allows attendees to connect with us and each other during the AEC. Attendees shared comments and photos across many social media channels. Attendees posts highlighted the connections they made, what they were excited to learn about, and helped showcase the depth of content and expertise being shared at the 2024 AEC. X Got Food Poisoning? We will be presenting on Foodborne Facebook LinkedIn Emily Burt, REHS/RS

Kim Dillon A NEHA AEC is a terrific jump-start to a successful career. Mine was Tucson, Arizona, circa 2008. #goodtimes #ehmatters Ohio Environmental Health Association Ohio representing!

Outstanding panel at this NEHA AEC. Glad to have had the opportunity to hear these professionals share their insights. Mindy Chambrelli, MPH, REHS/RS This has been a fantastic week full of enrichment and new possibilities!!! Eric Larsen It was a fantastic conference! Tanya Morrison Proud to attend this wonderful event, representing NZIEH. So many great conversations about a wide range of environmental health topics and a fantastic 2-day preconference body art facility inspectors training course. Kolachi Oparanozie It was great being able to sit in on this presentation! I am working at Orange County Health Department on educating the community about PFAS/PFOS. I am adding more information to my education tools. Thank you National Environmental Health Association for inviting the presenter! Traci Slowinski I was honored to win the Past Presidents Award from NEHA this year. It is amazing to be recognized for all our hard work and dedication to the EH sector and I couldn’t do what I do without all my great friends and partners at NEHA. Thank you so much!!

Illness and Crowdsourced Data: Opportunities, Challenges, and an Introduction to I Was Poisoned at the @NEHA AEC tomorrow July 16th. Check out our abstract and the full agenda at neha.org/aec-schedule See you there! @nehaorg. Office of Dr. Umair Shah, WA Sec of Health Thank you @nehaorg for inviting leaders of @WADeptHealth & NSF_Intl to discuss how we continue to build & support the environmental public health workforce! #EnvironmentalHealth Nebraska Association of Local Health Directors This is a proud moment! Our Executive Director Susan, with Nebraska environmental experts at #NEHA2024. Thanks, @nehaorg, for an incredible conference! Region V for Kids COE We’re ready for the @nehaorg Annual Educations Conference & Exhibition! If you’re here in Pittsburgh, come and see us at booth 509!

Feedback From Our Attendees All 2024 AEC attendees were asked to complete an evaluation survey after the conference. Of the respondents, 97% rated the overall quality of the conference as either excellent or good. Furthermore, 98% of the respondents indicated that they would attend a future AEC. The top two reasons for attending the AEC were 1) continuing education and professional development and 2) networking and peer connections. Below is a sample of the comments we received from the attendees: • “Great experience and appreciated the various perspectives. Meeting old colleagues and making new acquaintances.” • “The layout, agenda, and timing of things were well thought out and worked.” • “This was my first time attending and I hope to come back year after year. The net - working opportunities are invaluable, and the learning sessions were incredibly ben- eficial to me in my current role.” • “Many excellent sessions. I especially appreciated the opening and closing keynotes.”

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November 2024 • Journal of Environmental Health

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