271949 Cost Valuation Goes Local: CDC's New Environmental Health Tools

Wednesday, October 31, 2012 : 10:50 AM - 11:10 AM

Christopher Portier, PhD , National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
     
Both NCEH and ATSDR have a history of transforming the health of communities by working with partners to tackle challenges that have more than one health outcome, a key component of Health Impact Assessment (HIA). 15. That's why I am excited that NCEH's Healthy Community Design Initiative is at the forefront of promoting the use of HIA. Recently, HIA has been recognized as a tool for providing sound recommendations and solutions to proposed projects or policies. The National Prevention Strategy says that HIA can help achieve the key strategy of building healthy and safe community environments. In this talk, I will outline some key components of HIA and discuss specific examples from CDC.

Learning Objectives:
Define HIA and describe how it can be used.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Christopher J. Portier, PhD, is the Director of the National Center for Environmental Health and Director of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Dr. Portier has focused much of his career on the design, analysis, and interpretation of environmental health data. His 150+ peer-reviewed publications and 70+ book chapters and technical documents include research in cancer biology, risk assessment, climate change, bioinformatics, immunology, neurodevelopment, genetically modified foods, genomics and environmental policy.
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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