Update on studies of recovery workers at the World Trade Center site

The attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC) created a complex urban environmental disaster. A heterogeneous group of approximately 50,000 responders, including traditional first responders such as firefighters, paramedics, and law enforcement officers, as well as non-traditional responders, performed rescue and recovery, service restoration, and clean up in the aftermath of the attacks. This talk will provide an update on the status of federally funded programs to monitor health and disease outcomes among WTC responders, and will describe findings from clinical disease surveillance, and epidemiologic studies of WTC responder health.