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California Environmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program

Public Outreach and Community Involvement

The California Biomonitoring Program will involve interested members of the public throughout the state in the process of developing and carrying out the program. You can join our email list to find out how you can get involved. To contact us, send email to biomonitoring@oehha.ca.gov .

Scientific Guidance Panel

The Scientific Guidance Panel, a panel of expert scientists from outside of state government, will play a major role in the California Biomonitoring Program.   They will oversee and make recommendations on how the program is developed and carried out.

Panel meetings are open to the public.

Scientific Guidance Panel members - September 2007

Name	Affiliations	Appointed by
Asa Bradman, M.S., Ph.D.	Associate Director, Center for Children’s Environmental Health Research, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley and Co-Principal Investigator, Center for Health Assessment of Mothers and Children of Salinas (CHAMACOS)	Governor Schwarzenegger
B. Dwight Culver, M.D.	Clinical Professor of Medicine (Epidemiology) UC Irvine	Governor Schwarzenegger
Marion Kavanaugh-Lynch, M.D., M.P.H.	Director, California Breast Cancer Research Program University of California, Office of the President	Speaker of the Assembly
Ulrike Luderer, M.D., Ph.D.	Associate Professor, Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Medicine UC Irvine	Governor Schwarzenegger
Thomas McKone, Ph.D.	Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health,         UC Berkeley and Senior Scientist, Environmental Technologies Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Governor Schwarzenegger
Edward Moreno, M.D., M.P.H.	Director, Department of Community Health, and Health Officer Fresno County	Governor Schwarzenegger
Gina Solomon, M.D., M.P.H.	Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, and Associate Director, Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit, UC San Francisco and Senior Scientist, Natural Resources Defense Council	Senate Committee on Rules
Julia Quint, Ph.D.	Research Scientist Supervisor II and Chief (Retired), Hazard Evaluation System and Information Service (HESIS), Occupational Health Branch, California Department of Health Services (renamed California Department of Public Health).
Michael P. Wilson, Ph.D., M.P.H	Assistant Research Scientist, Center for Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley	Speaker of the Assembly

The role of the Panel

The role of the Panel is to:

1. Provide scientific peer review for the California Biomonitoring Program
2. Make recommendations regarding the program’s design and implementation.  This includes making specific recommendations regarding chemicals that are priorities for biomonitoring in California.

Appointment of Panel members

The Panel has a total of 9 members.  Appointment to the Panel is by the Governor (5 members) and the California Legislature (Speaker of the Assembly, 2 members; Senate Committee on Rules, 2 members)

As required by SB 1379, persons appointed to the Scientific Guidance Panel must have expertise in one or more of the following areas: Public health, epidemiology, biostatistics, environmental medicine, risk analysis, exposure assessment, developmental biology, laboratory science, bioethics, maternal and child health (specialty in breastfeeding), and toxicology.

Related State and Federal Programs

The approach used in the California Biomonitoring Program will build on existing federal and state efforts that address similar issues:

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention program

The California Biomonitoring Program will incorporate, as appropriate, methods used by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in its biomonitoring efforts.  The CDC publishes the results of its national biomonitoring efforts in the National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals http://www.cdc.gov/biomonitoring/

California’s Health Tracking and Environmental Indicators efforts

The California Biomonitoring Program will collaborate with related state activities, including the California Environmental Health Tracking Program http://www.catracking.com/ and the Environmental Protection Indicators for California Program.  http://www.oehha.ca.gov/multimedia/epic/index.html

Cal/EPA’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment toxic chemical identification efforts

The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has ongoing programs that identify toxic chemicals that are found in air, water, food, consumer products and elsewhere in the environment in California.  Some of these chemicals may be included in the California Biomonitoring Program. 

For information on the chemicals identified by OEHHA under these programs, visit:

• Chemicals identified as causing cancer or reproductive harm under Proposition 65: http://www.oehha.ca.gov/prop65/prop65_list/Newlist.html
• Chemicals found in air: that cause acute (short term) health effects:
  http://www.oehha.ca.gov/air/acute_rels/allAcRELs.html
  that cause chronic (long term) health effects: http://www.oehha.ca.gov/air/chronic_rels/AllChrels.html
• Air pollution and children’s health, a fact sheet:
  http://www.oehha.ca.gov/public_info/facts/pdf/kidsair4-02.pdf
• Chemicals found in water:
  http://www.oehha.ca.gov/water/phg/allphgs.html
• Chemicals found in fish:
  http://www.oehha.ca.gov/fish/chems/index.html
• List of hazardous art and craft materials: http://www.oehha.ca.gov/education/pdf_zip/ArtListMay2007.pdf
• Chemicals that may be found at school sites:
  http://www.oehha.ca.gov/public_info/public/kids/chrdtable.html