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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Public Meeting Agendas." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Reassessment of the Department of Veterans Affairs Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26729.
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Appendix B

Public Meeting Agendas

FIRST PUBLIC MEETING AGENDA
December 8, 2020
Virtual Meeting

2:25–2:30 p.m. EST Welcome and introductions; conduct of the open session
David Savitz, Ph.D., Committee Chair
2:30–3:45 p.m. Charge to the Committee and Overview of the Registry, Its Data, and Other Useful VA Data Sources “2nd Review of the Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry (AHOBPR) Charge to the Committee”
Eric Shuping, M.D., M.P.H., Director, Post-9/11 Era Environmental Health Program – Post Deployment Health Services, Department of Veterans Affairs
3:45–4:30 p.m. Public comments
Limited to 3 minutes per individual/organization
4:30 p.m. OPEN SESSION ENDS

SECOND PUBLIC MEETING AGENDA
April 14, 2021
Virtual Meeting

1:20–1:30 p.m. EST Welcome and introductions; conduct of the open session
David Savitz, Ph.D., Committee Chair
1:30–1:45 p.m. Additional information related to ILER
Eric Shuping, M.D., M.P.H., Director, Post-9/11 Era Environmental Health Program – Post Deployment Health Services, Department of Veterans Affairs
Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Public Meeting Agendas." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Reassessment of the Department of Veterans Affairs Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26729.
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1:45–2:05 p.m. Committee Question and Answer Session
Eric Shuping, M.D., M.P.H., Director, Post-9/11 Era Environmental Health Program – Post Deployment Health Services, Department of Veterans Affairs
Steven P. Jones, M.P.H., Director, Force Readiness and Health Assurance Policy, Office of Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Readiness Policy & Oversight, Department of Defense
Larry Vandergrift II, ILER Project Manager, Solution Delivery Division, Defense Health Agency, Clinical Support Management Office
2:05–2:35 p.m. Committee-Directed Live Demonstration of ILER
2:40 p.m. OPEN SESSION ENDS

THIRD PUBLIC MEETING AGENDA
June 23, 2021
Virtual Meeting

1:00–1:05 p.m. EST Welcome and introductions; conduct of the open session
David Savitz, Ph.D., Committee Chair
1:05–2:00 p.m. World Trade Center Health Registry
Mark R. Farfel, Sc.D., Director, World Trade Center Health Registry
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, accompanied by James Cone M.D., M.P.H., Registry Medical Director and Robert Brackbill, Ph.D., M.P.H., Registry Research Director
2:00–2:30 p.m. Millennium Cohort Study
Rudy Rull, Ph.D., M.P.H., Principal Investigator, Millennium Cohort Study at Naval Health Research Center, and
Edward J. Boyko, M.D., M.P.H., VA Puget Sound, Director of VA’s Seattle Epidemiologic Research and Information Center and Chair of VA Cooperative Study #505—The Millennium Cohort Study
2:30–3:30 p.m. WRIISC Airborne Hazards & Burn Pits Center of Excellence
Michael Falvo, Ph.D., Co-Director of the VA Airborne Hazards and Burn Pits Center of Excellence, and Nisha Jani, Ph.D., M.P.H., Epidemiologist, VA War Related Illness and Injury Study Center, VA New Jersey Health Care System
3:30 p.m. OPEN SESSION ENDS
Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Public Meeting Agendas." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Reassessment of the Department of Veterans Affairs Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26729.
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FOURTH PUBLIC MEETING AGENDA
July 28, 2021
Virtual Meeting

2:00-2:05 p.m. EST Welcome and introductions; conduct of the open session
Kristen M. Olson, Ph.D., M.S., committee member
2:05-4:00 p.m. Live Questionnaire Demonstration
Eric Shuping, M.D., M.P.H., Director, Post-9/11 Era Environmental Health Program – Post Deployment Health Services, Department of Veterans Affairs
4:00 p.m. OPEN SESSION ENDS
Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Public Meeting Agendas." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Reassessment of the Department of Veterans Affairs Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26729.
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Beginning with the 1990–1991 Gulf War, more than 3.7 million U.S. service members have been deployed to Southwest Asia, where they have been exposed to a number of airborne hazards, including oil-well fire smoke, emissions from open burn pits, dust and sand, diesel exhaust, and poor-quality ambient air. Many service members, particularly those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, have reported health problems they attribute to their exposure to emissions from open-air burn pits on military installations.

In 2013, Congress directed the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish and maintain the Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit (AH&OBP) Registry to "ascertain and monitor" the health effects of such exposures. This report serves as a follow-up to an initial assessment of the AH&OBP Registry completed by an independent committee of the National Academies in 2017. This reassessment does not include any strength-of-the-evidence assessments of potential relationships between exposures to burn pits or airborne hazards and health effects. Rather, this report assesses the ability of the registry to fulfill the intended purposes that Congress and VA have specified for it.

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