Public Health Linkages with Sustainability Workshop Summary (2013) / Chapter Skim
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A leading writer on the subjects of sustainability, green chemistry, and green engineering, he has published ten books, including Benign by Design, Designing Safer Polymers, Green Engineering, and his seminal work with co-author John Warner, Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice. Molly Anderson, Ph.D., is the Partridge Chair in Food and Sustainable Agriculture Systems at the College of the Atlantic.
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She also directed the Tufts Institute of the Environment for 2 years. Jamie Bartram, Ph.D., is a Don and Jennifer Holzworth Distinguished Professor in the Gillings School of Global Public Health of the University of North Carolina (UNC)
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She has received numerous awards, including the Conservation Award from the National Wildlife Fund, the Ambassador Award from the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Society of Toxicology, the EPA's Health Science Achievement Award and the Diversity Leadership Award, and numerous EPA Science and Technological Achievement Awards. Carlos Corvalán, Ph.D., is a senior advisor on Risk Assessment and Global Environmental Change at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
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His current research includes studies of pesticide handler exposures, advanced biomonitering techniques, pesticide spray drift, and paraoccupational exposures of children in rural communities. He currently receives research support from the NIOSH Agricultural Centers Program, the EPA/NIEHS Children's Environmental Health Centers Program, and the EPA STAR grant program.
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Her achievements included expanding the Toxics Release Inventory, reauthorizing the nation's pesticides laws (Food Quality Protection Act of 1996) ; and development of a framework for the regulation of biotechnology chemical and pesticide products.
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While at CDC he established the national asthma epidemiology and control program, and advanced the childhood lead poisoning prevention program. He instituted the current federal effort to "biomonitor" chemical levels in the U.S.
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Kreisel was WHO's officer-incharge of the preparatory process and follow-up to the Rio Summit in 1992, and was the chairman of various interagency programs and committees, and international conferences on public health and environment issues. From 1998 to 2002, he served as executive director at the WHO Office at the European Union (EU)
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In that position, he was the chief architect of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program, the historic initiative to compensate nuclear weapons workers who contracted occupational illnesses as a result of exposure to radiation, beryllium, and other hazards. The program has provided more than $6 billion in payments to sick workers and the families of deceased workers.
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He serves on a number of national and international scientific advisory committees, including the Global Energy Assessment, the National Research Council's Board on Atmospheric Science and Climate, the Executive Committee for WHO Air Quality Guidelines, and the International Comparative Risk Assessment. He participated along with many other scientists in the IPCC's third and fourth assessments and thus shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
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His international environmental law practice focuses on the impact on businesses of global and regional environmental, health, and safety legal and regulatory regimes dealing with industrial chemicals and pesticides, climate change, ozone depletion, the transboundary movement of hazardous chemicals, electronic and other wastes, nanotechnology, biotechnology and biosafety, and other biodiversity challenges. It further concentrates on how regulatory restrictions in overseas markets impact clients' ability to compete effectively in a global economy.
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Lauren Zeise, Ph.D., is chief of the Reproductive and Cancer Hazard Assessment Section in the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment at the California Environmental Protection Agency. She oversees a variety of risk assessment and public health activities, including development of approaches for assessing cumulative impacts, green chemistry and safer alternatives, susceptible populations, cancer and reproductive toxicants, and health risks for environmental media, food, and consumer products.
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