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Working effectively with state legislators


Monday, November 2, 2015 : 8:50 a.m. - 9:10 a.m.

Doug Farquhar, JD, Environmental Health, National Conference of State Legislatures, Denver, CO

Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) teamed with the University of Iowa School of Public Health to host a series of educational meetings with state legislators and research scientists from various academic institutions. Researchers from the University of Iowa, University of Cincinnati, University of Illinois, University of Pennsylvania have engaged in dialogue with over 80 state legislative policy makers and their staffs to discuss environmental health issues such as radon and indoor air contamination, PCBs in schools, hydraulic fracturing, animal feeding operations, renewable energy and climate change. Mr. Farquhar will discuss efforts to provide state policy makers with the scientific research and data to assist them in their efforts to develop state environmental health policy.

Learning Areas:

Environmental health sciences
Public health or related laws, regulations, standards, or guidelines

Learning Objectives:
Designing workshops for elected state lawmakers with research scientists on topics of environmental health policy.

Keyword(s): Environmental Health, Policy/Policy Development

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I direct environmental health policy program at a national state legislative organization. I provide information and research to state legislators and legislative staff on issues related to environmental health policy. I also am an adjunct professor in environmental health policy at the Colorado School of Public Health and the University of Denver.
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.

Back to: 3031.0: Engaging State Policy Makers on EHS Issues: Strategies for translating research results to inform policy development