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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA |
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4022.0: Tuesday, December 13, 2005: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM | |||
Oral | |||
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| This session will highlight a number of recent examples of the manipulation of evidence used in public health science. The presenters will explore the public health impact of corporate and industry influence on scientific research and public policy decision-making. Over the past two years, the public health community has witnessed an unprecedented effort by corporations, as well as the current administration, to manipulate science to further political goals or reward corporate interests. The panelists will present several case studies that illustrate how undue corporate influence can interfere with objective scientific analysis and undermine efforts to have honest, balanced science guide public health decisions and inform community struggles for environmental justice. Following the presentations of these case studies, the panelists will then discuss remedies to safeguard the public’s health. | |||
| Learning Objectives: 1. Describe specific examples of the negative impacts that conflicts of interest have had upon public health. 2. Describe specific cases in which bias and undue corporate influence have detrimentally influenced public health decision-making. 3. Describe the impact that manipulation of data has had upon public confidence in health science and affected communities. | |||
| Tyrone Hayes, PhD Wilma Subra, MS Gary A. Praglin, JD Celeste Monforton, MPH | |||
| Michael Green, MS, MPP | |||
| Michael K. Dorsey | |||
| Industry dilutes the weight of the evidence in the case for atrazine as an Endocrine Disruptor Tyrone Hayes, PhD | |||
| Use of government and industry developed data in assessing community health impacts Wilma Subra, MS | |||
| Weight-of-the-evidence or wait for the evidence Celeste Monforton, MPH | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Environment | ||
| Endorsed by: | Epidemiology; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Statistics | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||
The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA