THE MID-ATLANTIC CUMULATIVE RISK WORKSHOP

• Overview of Cumulative Risk: What is It and What Can It Tell Us?
  Dr. Tom Burke, Professor
  Department of Health Policy and Management
  Johns Hopkins University
  Bloomberg School of Public Health
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• Legal Issues of Cumulative Risk
  Deeohn Ferris, Esq.
  Ken Warren, Esq.
  Jerome Balter, Esq.
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• Community-based Experts
  Cecil D. Corbin-Mark, Program Director
  West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc.
  (WE ACT)
  Steve Larson
  Tsiwen M. Law, Esq.
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• Case Study: Food Quality Protection Act Cumulative Risk Requirements
  Mary Fox PhD, MPH
  AAAS Risk Policy Fellow
  USDA-ORACBA
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• How public health information on community health status could be incorporated in cumulative risk assessments or compliment cumulative risk assessments (susceptibility and vulnerability).
  Dr. Olivia Carter-Pokras, Associate Professor
  Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
  University of Maryland School of Medicine
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• Case Study: The National Air Toxics Assessment - Overview of the Initial National Scale Assessment
  Roy L. Smith, Ph.D.
  US EPA OAQPS/Risk & Exposure Assessment Group
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• Region VI Tools planning the assessment aggregate by route, media, chemical, health endpoints, cancer and non-cancer. Source of toxicity (health effects) information, dose-response, additivity assumption interactions, and common mechanism of action.
  Jeff Yurk, Toxicologist, Multi-Media Planning and Permitting Division, EPA Region VI
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Dr. Tom Burke PhD., MPH, Professor and Associate Chair,
Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health

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Dr. Olivia Carter-Pokras, PhD. Associate Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine

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• How public health information on community health status could be incorporated in cumulative risk assessments or compliment cumulative risk assessments (susceptibility and vulnerability)

Deeohn Ferris, Ken Warren, Jerome Balter

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Jeff Yurk Toxicologist, U.S.EPA Region 6

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• Tools
• Planning the assessment
• Aggregate by route, media, chemical??
• Health endpoints, cancer and non-cancer
• Source of tox (health effects) information and dose-response
• Dose additivity assumption
• Interactions
• Common mechanism of action (FQPA's approach)

Case Study:
Roy L. Smith, Ph.D. US EPA OAQPS/Risk & Exposure Assessment Group

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• The National Air Toxics Assessment - Overview of the Initial National Scale Assessment application of cumulative risk for hazardous air pollutants

Case Study:
Mary Fox PhD, MPH AAAS Risk Policy Fellow, USDA-ORACBA

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• Food Quality Protection Act
• Cumulative risk requirement

Cecil D. Corbin-Mark, Steve Larson, Tsiwen M. Law,
West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc. (WE ACT)

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• Community-based examples

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