Appendix A
Workshop Agenda
PLANNING COMMITTEE ON CHILDREN’S ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: A WORKSHOP ON FUTURE PRIORITIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES
AUGUST 1, 2022
LEVERAGING CURRENT AND PAST DISCOVERIES TO INFORM FUTURE ACTION
SESSION 1—WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS
| 11:00 |
Welcome |
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Germaine M. Buck Louis, Planning Committee Chair, Dean, College of Health & Human Services at George Mason University |
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| 11:15 |
Children’s Environmental Health at the EPA |
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Jeanne Briskin, Director, EPA Office of Children’s Health Protection |
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Janet McCabe, (prerecorded comments), Deputy Administrator, EPA |
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| 11:28 |
Questions and Answers |
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Jeanne Briskin |
| 11:30 |
Keynote Address: Critical Data Gaps and the Promise of New Methods |
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Phil Landrigan, Director, Global Public Health Program and Global Pollution Observatory, Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, Boston College |
SESSION 2—INFORMING DECISION MAKING: STATE OF THE SCIENCE AND CRITICAL GAPS
| 12:00–2:00 |
Mona Hanna-Attisha, Moderator, Planning Committee Member |
| 12:00 |
Why Addressing Environmental Threats to Children’s Health Still Matters |
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Tracey Woodruff, Professor, University of California San Francisco |
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| 12:20 |
Environmental health, Research, and Civic Engagement at the Center for Climate Health and the Global Environment |
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Aaron Bernstein, Interim Director, Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health |
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| 12:40 |
Heat and Child Health |
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Zhiwei Xu, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Public Health, University of Queensland |
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| 1:00 |
Break |
| 1:15 |
Panel Discussion: Critical Gaps that Hold Back Progress in Environmental Health Policy |
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Brenda Eskenazi, Director of the Center for Environmental Research and Community Health, University of California Berkeley |
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Mark Miller, Director, Children’s Environmental Health Center, California EPA |
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Thomas Burke, Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins University, Former Science Advisor, EPA |
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| 2:00 |
ADJOURN |
AUGUST 2, 2022
ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON CHILDREN’S HEALTH ACROSS THE LIFE-SPAN AND GENERATIONS
SESSION 3—LIFE COURSE AND GENERATIONAL EFFECTS OF EXPOSURES
| 11:00–2:00 |
Germaine M. Buck Louis, Moderator, Planning Committee Chair |
| 11:00 |
The Exposome and Health Equity |
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Paul Juarez, Professor and Director, Health Disparities Research Center of Excellence, Meharry Medical College |
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| 11:20 |
Biomarkers of Prenatal Exposure to Air Pollution and Children’s Health and Development |
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Frederica Perera, Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, Director, Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health |
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| 11:40 |
Testicular Cancer as a Late Symptom of Testicular Dysgenesis Syndrome |
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Niels Erik Skakkebæk, Professor, Department of Growth and Reproduction, Rigshospitalet and University of Copenhagen |
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| 12:00 |
Disentangling Heterogeneous Outcomes to Better Understand Environmental Impacts on Pregnancy and Child Health |
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Kelly Ferguson, Investigator, Perinatal and Early Life Epidemiology Group, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences |
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| 12:20 |
An Environmental Biodynamics Approach to Develop Biomarkers of Autism Spectrum Disorder |
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Manish Arora, Vice Chair of the Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
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| 12:40 |
Break |
| 1:00 |
Panel Discussion on Rethinking Exposures to Inform Decision Making with Session 3 Speakers |
| 2:00 |
ADJOURN |
AUGUST 3, 2022
HARNESSING DATA FOR DECISION MAKING
SESSION 4—STRATEGIES FOR USING DATA TO DELIVER PUBLIC HEALTH AND POLICY
| 11:00–2:00 |
Darryl B. Hood, Moderator, Planning Committee Member |
| 11:00 |
Strategies for Using Data for Delivering Public Health |
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Chirag Patel, Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School |
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| 11:20 |
Breakout Rooms: |
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Robyn Tanguay, University Distinguished Professor, Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, Oregon State University |
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Linda Birnbaum, Former Director National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Toxicology Program |
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Marie Fortin, Associate Director, Toxicology, Jazz Pharmaceuticals |
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| 12:40 |
Plenary Discussion on the Importance of Multiple Lines of Evidence with Session 4 Speakers and Breakout Room Leads |
| 2:00 |
ADJOURN |
AUGUST 4, 2022
BALANCING PREVENTION AND UNCERTAINTY
SESSION 5—CASE EXAMPLES OF SCIENCE INFORMING POLICY
| 11:00–2:00 |
Nsedu Witherspoon, Moderator, Planning Committee Member |
| 11:00 |
Welcome |
| 11:05 |
Minnesota Department of Health Case Examples |
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Stephanie Yendell, Senior Epidemiology Supervisor, Minnesota Department of Health |
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| 11:25 |
Five Years of Experience with New York State Children’s Environmental Health Centers |
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Maida Galvez, Professor, Departments of Environmental Medicine and Public Health & Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
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| 11:45 |
Strategies to Improve Children’s Environmental Health in King County, WA |
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Shirlee Tan, Senior Toxicologist, Seattle and King County Department of Public Health |
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| 12:05 |
Break |
SESSION 6—BALANCING UNCERTAINTY AND PREVENTION
| 11:00–2:00 |
Heather Patisaul, Moderator, Planning Committee Member |
| 12:20 |
Panel Discussion on Different Approaches to Scientific Uncertainty |
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David Levine, Cofounder and President of The American Sustainable Business Council American Sustainable Business Council |
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Alison Connolly, University of Galway |
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Wendy E. Wagner, Richard Dale Endowed Chair of Law, University of Texas School of Law |
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| 1:30 |
Closing Comments |
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Nsedu Obot Witherspoon, Planning Committee Member |
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| 2:00 |
ADJOURN |
