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HEALTH SECTOR ASSESSMENT
Impact/Purpose:
Assessment Activity: As part of the USGCRP's First National Assessment effort, EPA's Global Change Research Program is sponsoring the Health Sector Assessment.
Description:
As part of the USGCRP's First National Assessment effort, EPA's Global Change Research Program sponsored the Health Sector Assessment. The Health Sector Assessment was co-chaired by Dr. Jonathan A. Patz, Director of the Program on the Health Effects of Global Environmental Change at Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, and Dr. Michael A. McGeehin, Chief of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Health Studies Branch, and is directed by Ms. Susan M. Bernard, also of Johns Hopkins. A group of eight lead authors was assembled from a range of government, academic, and private institutions: Dr. Kristie L. Ebi of the Electric Power Research Institute; Dr. Paul R. Epstein, Associate Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the Harvard Medical School; Ms. Anne Grambsch of the Environmental Protection Agency; Dr. Duane J. Gubler, Director of CDC's National Center for Infectious Diseases, Division of Vector-Borne Disease; Dr. Isabelle Romieu of CDC's National Center for Environmental Health; Dr. Joan B. Rose of the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of South Florida; Dr. Jonathan Samet, Chief of the Epidemiology Department of the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health; and Ms. Juli Trtanj, Office of Global Programs at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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HEALTH SECTOR ASSESSMENT
REVIEWER COMMENTS/HEALTH SECTOR RESPONSES
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SPECIAL ISSUE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES REPORTING RESULTS OF HEALTH SECTOR ASSESSMENT
CONCISE BROCHURE SUMMARIZING THE RESULTS OF THE HEALTH SECTOR ASSESSMENT
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