PROPOSED SCHEDULE

Symposium on Defining a Public Health Approach to Environmental Protection

Sponsored by

The Presidential/Congressional Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management

 

Date: 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., August 8, 1997.

Place: Kimball Conference Room, 1400 16th Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20036.

Attendance Requirements: If you wish to attend this symposium, please notify the Commission’s office by August 1, Phone (202) 233-9537 or Fax (202) 233-9540. Give your name, phone number, and fax number.

10 - 10:15 a.m.   Welcoming and introductory remarks – Gilbert S. Omenn, Bernard Goldstein, and Debra Knopman.
10:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m.   Panel 1: Advantages and disadvantages of a public health approach; barriers to a public health approach

Panel 1 Moderator:

Gilbert S. Omenn
Chair, Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management
Dean, School of Public Health, University of Washington
   

Panel 1 Participants:

Dick Jackson, Director, National Center for Environmental Health

Lynn Goldman, Assistant Administrator, Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Paul Noe, Counsel, U.S. Senate Governmental Affairs Committee

Devra Davis, World Resources Institute

Barry Levy, President, American Public Health Association

 
12:30-1:30 p.m.   Lunch
1:30-3:00 p.m.   Panel 2: Investing in public health improvements as regulatory trade-offs. Case example: Proposed ozone and particulates NAAQS

Panel 2 Moderator:

Debra Knopman
Director, Center for Innovation and the Environment
    Panel 2 Participants:

Thomas Burke, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

Patrick Raher, Partner, Hogan and Hartson

Alan Krupnick, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future

Chris Wiant, Director, Tri-County Health Department, Englewood, Colorado (representative of the National Association of City and County Health Officers)

Marty Reape, Director, Corporate Health Sciences, FMC Corporation

U.S. EPA Office of Air Representative

Environmental Organization Representative

 
3:00-3:15 p.m.   Break
3:15-4:30 p.m.   Wrap-up: commentary from other commissioners, conclusions, recommendations, next steps

Wrap-up Leader:

Bernard Goldstein
Member, Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management
Director, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Rutgers University

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