Transforming EPA Science to Meet Today's and Tomorrow's Challenges (2023) / Chapter Skim
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In other cases, a staged approach may work better: for example, with the ORD Strategic Research Action Plans (StRAPs) for 2023-2026 recently completed, ORD need not immediately revamp all of its strategic planning process but could move quickly to build the strategic foresight capability the committee calls for in the near term, while laying the groundwork for more far-reaching and inclusive changes in the next round of strategic planning.
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Above all, implementing the changes that the committee recommends -- applying systems thinking to a One Environment–One Health approach -- will require insightful and sustained leadership from ORD, and ultimately EPA as a whole. While a number of the committee's recommendations can begin to be implemented in incremental fashion, successfully revamping ORD's approach to innovative and anticipatory research will require ORD to revolutionize the way it does business, making sustained, progressive improvements each year, and in each strategic planning cycle.
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He has more than four decades of government and nongovernment experience in environmental health. Before coming to HEI, he served as the commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, where he was responsible for the commonwealth's response to the Clean Air Act, as well as its award-winning efforts on pollution prevention, water pollution, and solid and hazardous waste.
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