Environmental Factor Newsletter, September 2016

Disaster Research Response takes next steps

Aubrey Miller explains National Institutes of Health efforts to initiate studies after disasters, ensuring community involvement.

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New group will develop disaster research best practices

A working group to develop guidelines for research in the aftermath of disasters drew a broad group of stakeholders to its inaugural meeting.

Safety training for community members involved in cleanup

Local residents received training to protect health and safety in new jobs cleaning up lead contamination near a battery recycling plant.

Calendar

Sep
07

Keystone Science Lecture Series presents “The Placenta: A Battleground of Viruses, Plastics, and Hormones?”
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Location: Building 101, Rodbell AB
Time: 11:00 a.m. – noon
Speaker(s): Jennifer Adibi, Sc.D., University of Pittsburgh

Sep
07

NIEHS Predictive Toxicology and Disease Faculty seminar, “CRISPR-Cas Systems, From Adaptive Immunity to the Genome Editing Revolution”
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Location: Rodbell BC
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Speaker(s): Rodolphe Barrangou, Ph.D., North Carolina State University

Sep
08

Alternative Approaches for Acute Inhalation Toxicity to Address Global Regulatory and Non-regulatory Data Requirements Webinar Series — “21st Century Testing Approaches”
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Location: Webinar
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Speaker(s): Dongeun (Dan) Huh, Ph.D., from the University of Pennsylvania, and Kelly BeruBe, Ph.D., from Cardiff University
Webinar registration

Sep
13

National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council meeting
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Location: Rodbell Auditorium
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Agenda and additional information

Sep
16

Office of the Director Seminar on “Primary Care Public Health Integration — Large Scale Data Aggregation and Discovery of Unexpected Patterns”
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Location: Rodbell AB
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Speaker(s): James Lloyd Michener, M.D. Professor and Chairman, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine

Sep
18-20

25 Years of Endocrine Disruption Research: Past Lessons and Future Directions
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Location: National Institutes of Health Masur Auditorium, Bethesda, Maryland
More information and registration

Sep
19-23

NIEHS Fellows Appreciation Week — various activities
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Location: Building 101

Sep
21-22

NIEHS Obesity Grantee Meeting
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Location: National Institutes of Health Natcher Auditorium, Bethesda, Maryland
Agenda

Sep
27

Meeting of the Scientific Advisory Committee on Alternative Toxicological Methods
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Location: Rodbell Auditorium
Time: 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Agenda and registration to attend in person or via webcast

Sep
30

Triangle Global Health Annual Conference
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Location: Friday Center, Chapel Hill
Speaker(s): Keynote by Raj Panjabi, M.D., from Harvard Medical School and co-founder and CEO of Last Mile Health. Other speakers — Congressman David Price and Linda Birnbaum, Ph.D., NIEHS and National Toxicology Program director.
http://triangleglobalhealth.org/

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