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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Research Council and Institute of Medicine. 2013. Design of the National Children's Study: A Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18386.
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Appendix A

Workshop Agenda

Workshop on the Design of the National Children’s Study
Committee on National Statistics
Board on Children, Youth, and Families
National Academy of Sciences Main Building
2101 Constitution Ave NW Lecture Room

Friday, January 11, 2013

8:30 am

Welcome and Introductions

Sara McLanahan, Chair, Workshop Steering Committee, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Princeton University


8:35

Welcome to the National Academies

Constance Citro, Director, Committee on National Statistics, National Research Council


8:45

Welcome to the Workshop and Statement of Its Purpose

Steven Hirschfeld, Director, National Children's Study, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Research Council and Institute of Medicine. 2013. Design of the National Children's Study: A Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18386.
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9:00

Panel Discussion: Decisions about Environmental Measures

Moderator: Marie McCormick (Steering Committee Member), Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School

Panelist 1: Melissa Perry, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University

Panelist 2: Nicole Cardello Deziel, Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute

Panelist 3: Linda Sheldon, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency

Panelist 4: Antonia Calafat, Personal Care Products Laboratory, Division of Laboratory Sciences, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


10:10 Floor Discussion, Moderator

10:30 Break

10:45

Panel Discussion: Composition of Sample: Alternatives for Cohorts of Women

Moderator: Barbara Carlson (Steering Committee Member), Mathematica Policy Research

Panelist 1: Irwin Garfinkel (Steering Committee Member), Columbia University School of Social Work and Population Research Center

Panelist 2: Naihua Duan (Steering Committee Member), Columbia University Medical Center

Panelist 3: Nancy Reichman, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Center for Health and Wellbeing, Princeton University

Panelist 4: Michael Bracken, Yale University School of Public Health


11:55 Floor Discussion, Moderator

12:15 pm Break for Lunch
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Research Council and Institute of Medicine. 2013. Design of the National Children's Study: A Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18386.
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1:15

Panel Discussion: Weighting, Imputation, and Estimation in Proposed Design

Moderator: Steven Cohen (Steering Committee Member), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Panelist 1: Graham Kalton, Westat, Rockville, MD

Panelist 2: Colm O'Muircheartaigh, Harris School of Public Policy and NORC at the University of Chicago

Panelist 3: Richard Valliant, Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor


2:25 Floor Discussion, Moderator

2:45 Break

3:00

Panel Discussion: Factors, Issues, and Values to Balance and Consider in Reaching Decisions About the NCS Design

Moderator: Greg Duncan (Steering Committee Member), School of Education, University of California, Irvine

Panelist 1: Ed Sondik (Steering Committee Member), Director, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Panelist 2: Roderick Little, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Panelist 3: Ana Diez Roux, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor


4:10 Floor Discussion, Moderator

5:00 Adjourn, Sara McLanahan, Chair
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The Children's Health Act mandated the National Children's Study (NCS) in 2000 with one of its purposes being to authorize the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to study the environmental influences (including physical, chemical, biological, and psychosocial) on children's health and development. The NCS examines all aspects of the environment including air, water, diet, noise, family dynamics, and genetics, on the growth, development, and health of children across the United States, for a period of 21 years. The purpose of NCS is to improve the health and well-being of children and to contribute to understanding the role of these factors on health and disease.

The research plan for the NCS was developed from 2005 to 2007 in collaboration among the Interagency Coordinating Committee, the NCS Advisory Committee, the NCS Program Office, Westat, the Vanguard Center principal investigators, and federal scientists. The current design of the study, however, uses a separate pilot to assess quality of scientific output, logistics, and operations and a "Main Study" to examine exposure-outcome relationships. The NCS proposed the use of a multilayered cohort approach for the Main Study, which was one of the topics for discussion at the workshop that is the subject of this publication.

In the fall of 2012, NICHD requested that the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) of the NRC and the IOM convene a joint workshop, to be led by CNSTAT. The workshop was to focus on issues related to the overall design (including the framework for implementation) of the NCS. The committee was provided a background paper which it used to select the challenges that were discussed at the workshop. Design of the National Children's Study: A Workshop Summary presents an overview of the workshop held on January 11, 2013. The publication includes summaries of the four sessions of the workshop, a list of participants, and the agenda.

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