251254 History and future of environmental human health risk assessment

Tuesday, November 1, 2011: 12:30 PM

Daniel Krewski, MHA, MSc, PhD , McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
     
This presentation will provide a brief overview of the history of environmental human health risk assessment, its beginnings, how it has changed over the years, and where it may go in the future. The presentation will also provide an overview of an integrative framework for population health risk, and how environmental human health risk assessment intersects with the other determinants of public health. Dr. Krewski, the presenter, serves as the Director of the McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, which will make him an ideal panelist to participate in a discussion about how the next generation of risk assessment may be useful for public health protection.

Learning Areas:
Environmental health sciences

Learning Objectives:
1. Describe a brief history of environmental human health risk assessment. 2. Explain how human health risk assessment may change in the future

Keywords: Environmental Health, Risk Assessment

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: As Professor and Director of the R. Samuel McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment at the University of Ottawa I oversee a number of activities in population health risk assessment within the Institute of Population Health.
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.

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