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His research in human health risk assessment includes toxicokinetics, physiologically-based pharmacokinetic modeling, dose-response assessment, characterization of uncertainty/ variability, environmental justice, climate and disaster risks, systematic review, and meta-analysis, with particular interest in Bayesian and probabilistic methods. Chiu has participated or chaired expert review panels for multiple government agencies, including EPA's Science Advisory Board and Chemical Assessment Advisory Committee, international committees, and work groups.
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Deborah A Cory-Slechta is a Professor of Environmental Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical School and previously served as Dean for Research, Chair of Environmental Medicine, and Principal Investigator of the Department's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Core Center Grant.
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Her research began with a focus on the effects of persistent organic pollutants, including polychlorinated biphenyls, and heavy metals on children's growth and development, endocrine disruption, and thyroid function, and has expanded to include women's reproductive function and the role of persistent organic pollutants in the development of cardiovascular disease and autoimmune diseases. Early in her career, Gallo was the recipient of the National Institute of Environmental Health Science's Young Investigator Award, the Reginald Whitehouse Award, and the David Axelrod Award.
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His research centers on urban environmental exposure and health risk modeling, with an emphasis on spatiotemporal exposure patterns and related environmental justice issues. He has led multiple studies evaluating the cumulative health risks of chemical and nonchemical exposures, including novel approaches for exposure modeling and multi-stressor epidemiology.
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Morello-Frosch is an environmental health scientist, epidemiologist, and professor in the School of Public Health and the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research examines structural determinants of community environmental health with a focus on social inequality, psychosocial stressors, and how these factors interact with multiple environmental hazard exposures to produce health inequalities.
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. His research focuses on reproductive health care, health disparities, health consequences of environmental exposure, and health insurance, and he has published in top journals in public policy, economics, medicine, and public health, including the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, the Journal of Health Economics, Pediatrics, and the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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from Harvard University. She has previously served on numerous National Academies committees, including the Committee on Toxicity Testing and Assessment of Environmental Agents and the Committee on Improving Risk Analysis Approaches Used by EPA.
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