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Appendix A: Committee Member Biographical Sketches
Pages 121-124

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From page 121...
... He has served on numerous committees concerned with public health and the environment: the Science Advisory Board of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; committees of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, including chairing the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation VI Committee, the Committee on Incorporating 21st Century Science in Risk-Based Evaluations, the Committee on Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter, the Committee to Review EPA's Draft Integrated Risk Information System Assessment of Formaldehyde, the Committee to Review the IRIS Process, and the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, among others; and the National Cancer Advisory Board.
From page 122...
... . Her responsibilities include conducting and overseeing health effects risk assessments of air permit applications, ambient air monitoring projects, and hazardous waste sites; development of chemical toxicity factors; and systematic reviews and independent analyses of risk assessments.
From page 123...
... Lianne Sheppard is Rohm & Haas Endowed Professor at the University of Washington School of Public Health, and is a member of the departments of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, and Biostatistics. Her research interests focus on environmental epidemiology and statistical methods for understanding the health effects of environmental and occupational exposures; they include study design, measurement error, exposure modeling and estimation, and estimation of environmental exposure effects with application to a wide range of health outcomes including cancer, brain health, and cardiovascular disease measures.
From page 124...
... Lauren Zeise is director of the California Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. She oversees the department's activities, which include the development of risk assessments, hazard evaluations, toxicity reviews, cumulative impact analyses, frameworks and methods for assessing toxicity and cumulative effects of vulnerability and environmental exposures on communities, and the department's activities in the California Environmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program.


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