Can the dramatic increase in the incidence of certain diseases be associated with a toxic, damaged environment? What are we learning and how can we intervene most effectively? Moderated by Eleni Sotos, program director of the Collaborative on Health & the Environment (CHE); with Elise Miller, founder and executive director of the Institute for Children’s Environmental Health; Jackie Hunt Christensen, co-chair of CHE’s Working Group on Parkinson’s Disease and the Environment; and Christine Cordero, community health program coordinator for the Center for Environmental Health. (A16)