Identifying and Reducing Environmental Health Risks of Chemicals in Our Society Workshop Summary (2014) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix C: Speaker Biosketches
Appendix C: Speaker Biosketches
Pages 157-167
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Balbus was chief health scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund. He served on the faculty of The George Washington University, where he was founding director of the Center for Risk Science and Public Health, founding co-director of the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children's Health and the Environment, and acting chairman of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health.
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As the director, Ms. Cleland-Hamnett oversees the EPA's new and existing chemicals programs, numerous safer chemical and pollution prevention activities, enhanced efforts to make chemical information more accessible to the public, and a range of efforts to manage lead, formaldehyde, and other legacy chemicals.
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He has also worked in the renewable energy field, where he permitted and installed wind turbines throughout the Rocky Mountain west. Connie Deford is the director of Global Product Sustainability and Compliance at the Dow Chemical Company.
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. She is a policy advocate on health and chemical regulatory issues affecting the ACC member companies, concentrating in particular on the Toxic Substances Control Act, the High Production Volume Program, and product stewardship issues.
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In 2001 he came to the University of Pittsburgh from New Jersey where he had been the founding director of the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, a joint program of Rutgers University and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He has chaired more than a dozen National Research Council and the IOM committees primarily related to environmental health issues.
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Her most recent work was the formation of industry supply chain workgroups to help companies comply with international regulations that restrict the use of certain chemicals, including lead and brominated flame retardants. Other technical work she has conducted includes design for the environment, chemical substitution, and analysis of industry progress in reducing waste and toxic chemical use in products.
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. He also chairs the boards of Population Services International and the Arthur Burns Fellowship Program and serves on the boards of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies and The Washington Ballet.
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Her current work involves developing innovative approaches for prioritization and assessment of chemicals, including methods for rapid screening and triaging of high or low concern chemicals. Marilee Shelton-Davenport, Ph.D., is a senior program officer with the Board on Life Sciences at the National Research Council (NRC)
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She is on the editorial board of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives and serves regularly as a peer reviewer for numerous scientific journals. Her prior work has included research on diesel exhaust and asthma, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, pesticides, environmental contaminants in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, the health implications of the 2010 Gulf oil spill, and the health effects of climate change.
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Nsedu Obot Witherspoon, M.P.H., serves as the Executive Director for the Children's Environmental Health Network (CEHN) , where her responsibilities include successfully organizing, leading, and managing policy, education and training, and science-related programs.
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His current interests are in integrating human health and ecological risk assessment, strengthening the linkages between environmental and public health agendas and agencies, the promotion of sustainability and sustainable problem solutions as a critical consideration in the EPA's decision making, and the application of emerging computational, informational, and molecule sciences in improving toxicity testing and risk assessment practices.
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