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California Environmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program (CECBP):  Scientific Guidance Panel Meeting Agenda
[11/28/07]

download this agenda and the list of meeting hand-outs as a pdf file here
individual presentation slides are available as pdf files below

December 17, 2007, 9:30 am – 5 pm
Sacramento City Hall – City Council Chamber, 1000 I Street, Sacramento

♦ Convening the Meeting
Convener: Joan Denton, Ph.D., Director, Cal/EPA Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA)

Swearing in of Panel Members

Panel Member Introductions

Welcome
The Honorable Don Perata, Senate President Pro Tem
Mark Horton, M.D., Director, California Department of Public Health (CDPH)
Maureen Gorsen, Director, Cal/EPA Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC)

Meeting Overview
George Alexeeff, Ph.D., OEHHA Deputy Director for Scientific Affairs     

♦ Panel Orientation and Meeting Conduct

California’s Open Meeting and Conflict of Interest Laws
Carol Monahan-Cummings, Chief Counsel, OEHHA

Overview of SB 1379 Legislation
Michael Lipsett, M.D., CECBP Lead and Chief, CDPH Exposure Assessment Section (download presentation as pdf file here)

Role of Panel; Public Participation and Environmental Justice Elements at Panel Meetings
Lauren Zeise, Ph.D., OEHHA, Chief, Reproductive and Cancer Hazard Assessment Branch (RCHAB) (download presentation as a pdf file here)

Public Input

♦ Considerations for Design of Biomonitoring Programs

Reflections on Establishing a Biomonitoring Program at the CDC
Richard Jackson, M.D., M.P.H., University of California at Berkeley and CECBP Panel member (download presentation as pdf file here)

National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Perspective on Biomonitoring Programs
Gary Ginsberg, Ph.D., Member, NAS Committee on Human Biomonitoring for Environmental Toxicants (download presentation as pdf file here)

Public Input

♦ CECBP Program in Brief

CECBP Program Overview
Michael Lipsett, M.D., CECBP Lead and Chief, CDPH Exposure Assessment Section (download presentation as pdf file here)
Peter Flessel, Ph.D., Chief, CDPH Environmental Health Laboratory Branch
Myrto Petreas, Ph.D., Chief, DTSC Environmental Chemistry Branch
(download presentation as pdf file here)
Lauren Zeise, Ph.D., Chief, OEHHA RCHAB (download presentation as pdf file here)

Planning for Chemical Selection
Martha Sandy, Ph.D., OEHHA, Chief, RCHAB Cancer Toxicology and Epidemiology Section (download presentation as pdf file here)

Public Input


♦ Summary of Action Items and Advice

♦ Meeting Adjourned

Materials for the Scientific Guidance Panel meeting to be held on December 17, 2007

California Environmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program and Its Scientific Guidance Panel
This is the first meeting of the Scientific Guidance Panel of the California Environmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program (CECBP).  The Panel was established in legislation (SB 1379, Perata, 2006) to provide scientific oversight to the Program.  The program is a collaboration of three departments in California state government:  The California Department of Public Health (CDPH), the Cal/EPA Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), and the Cal/EPA Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC).  The Program will measure the level of environmental contaminants in a representative sample of Californians. This information will be used to identify emerging environmental hazards and to evaluate the effectiveness of existing environmental programs. This will ultimately be used by policy makers to protect Californians from environmental contaminants through better environmental programs and laws.

Meeting Participation and Comment
After each presentation there will be the opportunity for dialog between the Panel and the presenter.  The order of items on the agenda is subject to change at the discretion of the Chair.  Materials related to the meeting are posted on the OEHHA web site http://www.oehha.ca.gov (click on “Biomonitoring”).    

Members of the public and representatives of organized groups are invited to provide input on each agenda item.  The time allotted for public input will be limited by the number of individuals wishing to speak.  Members of the public wishing to speak may fill out a “Public Input Card” indicating the agenda item on which they would like to speak. Members of the public wishing to speak are not required to identify themselves by giving their name.

Webcasts
The archived video of the webcast of the December 17, 2007 Scientific Guidance Panel meeting can be viewed directly by following this link:http://sacramento.granicus.com/ASX.php?publish_id=16&sn=sacramento.granicus.com

 
 
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