Triangulation in Environmental Epidemiology for EPA Human Health Assessments: Proceedings of a Workshop (2022)
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PLANNING COMMITTEE ON WORKSHOPS TO SUPPORT EPA’S DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN HEALTH ASSESSMENTS
Members
ELAINE M. FAUSTMAN (Chair), University of Washington
SCOTT AUERBACH, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
LAURA BEANE FREEMAN, National Cancer Institute
NICHOLAS CHARTRES, University of California, San Francisco
AISHA DICKERSON, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
CHIRAG PATEL, Harvard Medical School
DAVID M. REIF, North Carolina State University
DAVID RICHARDSON, University of California, Irvine
JOYCE S. TSUJI, Exponent, Inc.
CHERYL L. WALKER (NAM), Baylor College of Medicine
BYRON WALLACE, Northeastern University
Staff
KALEY BEINS, Program Officer
RAYMOND A. WASSEL, Scholar
KATHRYN Z. GUYTON, Senior Program Officer
LESLIE BEAUCHAMP, Senior Program Assistant
CLIFFORD DUKE, Board Director
BOARD ON ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES AND TOXICOLOGY
Members
FRANK W. DAVIS (Chair), University of California, Santa Barbara
ANN M. BARTUSKA, U.S. Department of Agriculture
DANA BOYD BARR, Emory University
GERMAINE M. BUCK LOUIS, George Mason University
FRANCESCA DOMINICI (NAM), Harvard University
GEORGE M. GRAY, The George Washington University
R. J. LEWIS, ExxonMobil Biomedical Sciences, Inc.
LINSEY C. MARR, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
MARIE L. MIRANDA, Children’s Environmental Health Initiative
R. CRAIG POSTLEWAITE, U.S. Department of Defense
REZA J. RASOULPOUR, Corteva Agriscience
JOSHUA TEWKSBURY, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
SACOBY M. WILSON, University of Maryland, College Park
TRACEY J. WOODRUFF, University of California, San Francisco
Staff
CLIFFORD DUKE, Director
RAYMOND A. WASSEL, Scholar and Director of Environmental Studies
KATHRYN Z. GUYTON, Senior Program Officer
KALEY BEINS, Program Officer
LAURA LLANOS, Finance Business Partner
TAMARA DAWSON, Program Associate
LESLIE BEAUCHAMP, Senior Program Assistant
THOMASINA LYLES, Senior Program Assistant
Reviewers
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