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Tracking and Biomonitoring: A successful partnership for successful health outcomes
Monday, November 17, 2014
: 10:50 AM - 11:10 AM
Surili Sutaria Patel, MS
,
Association of Public Health Laboratories, Workplace, Silver Spring, MD
The use of Environmental Public Health Tracking data has proven to be an unmatched resource when coupled with biomonitoring– the measure of environmental chemicals in people’s blood, urine and other fluids. While Tracking looks at how contaminants in the environment impact a community’s health, biomonitoring determines contaminants in human specimens. This presentation will illustrate how state programs in Minnesota, Washington, Wisconsin and Utah benefit from joint Tracking and biomonitoring efforts. Specifically, the paper will demonstrate how programs can paint a more holistic picture of environmental exposures in a community. Finally, the paper will highlight lessons learned from the aforementioned states and offer recommendations for how other jurisdictions can develop successful collaborations between Tracking and biomonitoring programs. A successful partnership between epidemiologists and analytical chemists can determine successful health outcomes by improving public health practice and policy.
Learning Areas:
Environmental health sciences
Learning Objectives:
Demonstrate how state programs in Minnesota, Washington, Wisconsin and Utah benefit from joint Tracking and biomonitoring efforts.
Assess how programs can paint a more holistic picture of environmental exposures in a community.
Identify lessons learned from the aforementioned states and offer recommendations for how other jurisdictions can develop successful collaborations between Tracking and biomonitoring programs.
Keyword(s): Environmental Health, Data Collection and Surveillance
Presenting author's disclosure statement:Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have worked in environmental health for over 15 years and have my doctorate in the same.
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.
