National Conversation on Public Health and Chemical Exposures June 26, 2009

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• Corporate Authors:
  United States. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
• Description:
  The National Conversation on Public Health and Chemical Exposures is a collaborative project convened by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), and RESOLVE, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the effective use of consensus building in public decision making. The project is a multi-stakeholder process through which we will develop collaboratively an Action Agenda for strengthening the public health functions related to protecting the public from chemical hazards.
  
  The National Conversation kick-off meeting took place Friday, June 26, 2009 at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, DC. Approximately 400 people attended the meeting in person, and another 100 people viewed the morning session by live webcast. The documents accessible from this webpage summarize the day-long meeting, including the morning plenary session, the breakout sessions, and the afternoon plenary session. The day’s events have been summarized, and a full transcript is available for the morning sessions.
  
  The views expressed in this summary are not necessarily those of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and these comments do not construe any agency determination or policy.
  
  Page last reviewed: June 3, 2009
  
  Page last updated: December 1, 2009
  
  
• Content Notes:
  Overview -- Materials Distributed -- Agenda -- Additional Materials -- Questions or Comments.
• Subjects:
  Chemical Hazard Release Environmental Exposure/adverse Effects Environmental Monitoring Hazardous Substances/adverse Effects Public Health
• Series:
  National Conversation on Public Health and Chemical Exposures (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Name as Subject:
  National Conversation on Public Health and Chemical Exposures (U.S.)
• Genre:
  Conference Publications
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:9a60329daff4bb0c611f302257c78caa4b984358ddc73325aabbcd8640d4b990b978abdcd35d7054d7298af7fa4320396728b632df21980626f611409e100b1d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/125716/cdc_125716_DS1.pdf
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