School of Public Health
Environmental Health Sciences Division
50 University Hall
Berkeley, CA
USA 94720
Email: adkyle@berkeley.edu
Disclosure statement:
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: A key area of my research is about how to assess environmental factors with regard to their health significance. I am an adjunct associate professor in the Environmental Health Sciences Division at the School of Public Health at the University of California Berkeley. I also teach graduate students about such methods and their application in policy contexts.
I am currently the principal investigator on a research project funded by the California Environmental Protection Agency to develop methods to assess the impacts of multiple environmental factors in communities and to address these in policy contexts.
I have published papers related to past work funded by the US Environmental Protection Agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. I have extensive training and experience in facilitating group processes, particularly as they related to the application of technical information to policy relevant contexts. I have been active in APHA for many years and have been elected as a section councilor and have organized sessions and presented papers almost every year since 1996.
I. Examples of relevant papers are below.
Peter L. deFur, Gary W. Evans, Elaine A. Cohen Hubal, Amy D. Kyle, Rachel A. Morello-Frosch, David Williams. Vulnerability as a function of individual and group resources in cumulative risk assessment. Environmental Health Perspectives. 115(5): 817-24.
Amy D. Kyle, John R. Balmes, Patricia A. Buffler, Philip R. Lee. 2006. Integrating research, surveillance, and practice in environmental public health tracking. Environmental Health Perspectives. 114(7): 980-984.
Amy D. Kyle, Tracey J. Woodruff, Daniel A. Axelrad. 2006. Integrated assessment of environment and health: America’s Children and the Environment. Environmental Health Perspectives. 114(3): 447-452.
Tracey J. Woodruff, Dan Axelrad, Amy D. Kyle, Gregory Miller, Onyemaechi Nweke. 2003. America's Children and the Environment: Contaminants, Exposures, and Diseases. US Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Children's Health Protection. Washington, DC.
II. Examples of sessions and presentations, results of which will be published in forthcoming papers, are below:
Amy D. Kyle. Trajectory of research on chemicals and neurodevelopmental effects – implications for public policy. Invited presentation to the Learning Disabilities Association Annual Meeting. Chicago. February 2007.
Amy D. Kyle. Working with policy actors: research translation for environmental health. Invited presentation. Annual meeting of the Superfund Basic Research Program. Durham, NC. December 2007.
Amy D. Kyle, Surakshya Dhakal. Is there a role for biomonitoring in improved chemicals policy? Combining data to identify targets. Poster presentation at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting. November 2007.
Amy D. Kyle. Defining what matters: including “qualitative” factors in community environmental health assessments. Invited presentation. Conference on Health Impacts of Air Pollution on Communities. California Air Pollution Control Officers Association. Los Angeles. September 2007.
Amy D. Kyle, John R. Balmes, Martyn T. Smith. Overcoming limits of “evidence-based” methods to effectively translate science for environmental public health policy audiences. Poster presentation. International Society for Environmental Epidemiology Annual Meeting. Mexico City. September 2007.
Amy D. Kyle. Addressing cumulative impacts of environmental contaminants and social factors in communities: efforts to date and future directions. Oral presentation. Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists. Annual Conference. June 2007.
Amy D. Kyle. Using environmental health indicators to inform external audiences and contribute to policy development: progress to date and steps for the future. Oral presentation. Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists. Annual Conference. June 2007.
Session chair. Workshop on evaluating adverse upstream endpoints for improved decision making and risk assessment. Sponsored by California Environmental Protection Agency Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, University of California San Francisco, and Superfund Basic Research Program, University of California Berkeley. May 2007.
Amy D. Kyle. Community needs for assessment of environmental health. Presentation to the National Academy of Sciences, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Committee on Improving Risk Analysis Approaches Used by the US EPA. April 2007, Washington DC.
Alberto M. Ortega and Amy D. Kyle. Definitions and indicators for “walkability” in the context of environmental public health tracking. Presentation to the State Environmental Health Collaborative. San Francisco. March 2007.
Amy D. Kyle. Future Directions for Environmental Health in California. Briefing for the California Senate Committee on Environmental Quality, Senate Committee on Health, and Assembly Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials, sponsored by the National Conference of State Legislators. February 2007. Sacramento.
III. Examples of workshop on related topics are below.
Amy D. Kyle and Sharon Fuller. Workshop co-chairs. Toxic Exposure in Our Communities: What is the Role of Biomonitoring? December 2007. Oakland California.
Amy D. Kyle. Workshop Chair. Advancing Environmental Health in Communities: What Works. Sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Environmental Health Tracking, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. October 2007. Oakland California.
Amy D. Kyle. Workshop co-chair with Patricia A. Buffler. Using Toxicogenomics Research to Understand Disease Mechanisms. Sponsored by the Committee on Emerging Issues and Data on Environmental Contaminants of the National Academy of Sciences. February 2007. Washington DC.
Amy D. Kyle. Workshop Chair. Designing State Biomonitoring Programs. Workshop for government health and environmental protection agencies, non-governmental organizations, and researchers to address targeting of compounds and populations, policy relevance and applicability, community needs, and related issues. January 2007. Berkeley California.
Amy D. Kyle. Workshop chair. Approaches to Reducing Impacts of Contaminants in Fish on Bay Area Communities. Workshop sponsored by the Regional Water Quality Control Board to initiative dialogue and examination of options for water quality agencies and bay area communities. December 2006. Oakland.
Amy D. Kyle. Workshop Chair. Use of Data from Biomonitoring in Environmental Health Policy and Surveillance. Workshop for government health and environmental protection agencies, non-governmental organizations, and researchers to address critical issues for legislation for a biomonitoring pogrom. July 2006. San Francisco.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.