Webinars

Archives: 2005 Webinars

November 4, 2005

Risk Analysis Using Small Area Methods

• Background on Development of the Rapid Inquiry Facility (RIF) Tool [PDF, 608 KB]
  Lars Jarup, M.D., Ph.D., M.Sc., Imperial College of London
• Demonstration of the RIF Tool [PDF, 368 KB]
  Lars Jarup, M.D., Ph.D., M.Sc., Linda Beale, Ph.D., Damian Tirado, Peter Hambly, Susan Hodgson, Juan Jose Abellan-Andres, Imperial College of London
• Utah Environmental Public Health Tracking Program RIF [PDF, 3.8 MB]
  Lars Jarup, M.D., Ph.D., M.Sc., Linda Beale, Ph.D., Damian Tirado, Imperial College of London; Wayne Ball, Ph.D., Sam LeFevre, D.Sc., Environmental Epidemiology Program, Utah Department of Health

September 26, 2005

Arsenic in Drinking Water

• Health Effects and Current Issues [PDF, 800 KB]
  Craig Steinmaus, M.D., M.P.H., University of California, Berkeley
• Problems with Low Exposure Studies [PDF, 448 KB]
  Len Flowers, New Mexico Department of Health

August 22, 2005

• Improving the Reliability of Exposure Tracking by Merging Exposure Models with Biomonitoring Data [PDF, 2.5 MB]
  Thomas E. McKone, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

July 25, 2005

• The Public Health Information Network: An Update on Recent Activities [PDF, 338 KB]
  Sunanda R. McGarvey, National Center of Public Health Informatics, CDC

May 23, 2005

Environmental Public Health Tracking of Pesticides Information

• Pesticide Tracking in New York City: Early Reports, a Proposed Birth Outcomes Study, and Using Tracking to Guide Legislation [PDF, 386 KB]
  Wendy McKelvey, Ph.D., Epidemiologist, Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, Bureau of Environmental Disease Prevention, New York City
• Legislative Initiatives and NYC’s Pesticide Tracking Effort [PDF, 944 KB]
  Dan Kass, M.S.P.H., EPHT Director, Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, Bureau of Environmental Disease Prevention, New York City
• Residential Insecticide Exposure during Pregnancy among African American and Dominican Mothers and Newborns from New York City [PDF, 706 KB]
  Robin Whyatt, Dr.PH., Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Health Science, Columbia University
• Incorporating Environmental Public Health Indicators into Cumulative Risk Scores to Track the Disparate Burden of Pesticide Exposure in Wisconsin [PDF, 1.4 MB]
  Jessica Schumacher, Epidemiologist, Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Health, Wisconsin Division of Public Health

March 28, 2005

Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and Implications for Public Health Surveillance

• Public Health Surveillance and FERPA [PDF, 92 KB]
  Beverly Dozier-Peeples, Privacy Rule Coordinator, Office of the Chief Science Officer, CDC
• FERPA and Student Health Data: Lessons Learned [PDF, 276 KB]
  Glen Patrick, Epidemiologist, Office of Environmental Health Assessments, Washington State Department of Health
• Impact of FERPA on Childhood Developmental Disabilities Tracking: One State’s Experience [PDF, 556 KB]
  Elaine Krueger, Director, Environmental Toxicology Program, Center for Environmental Health, Massachusetts Department of Public Health

February 28, 2005

Environmental Public Health Tracking Work in Birth Defects

• HELIX-Atlanta Birth Defects Team: Air Pollution and Congenital Heart Defects in Atlanta [PDF, 2  MB]
  Matt Strickland, National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, CDC
• Oklahoma Public Health Environmental Tracking System: Linking Oral/Facial Clefts and Environmental Contaminants in Oklahoma (1994-2002) [PDF, 218 KB]
  Kay Pearson, Principal Investigator, and Elizabeth Kruger, Epidemiologist/Program Coordinator, Oklahoma Public Health Environmental Tracking System, Oklahoma State Department of Public Health

January 24, 2005

Cancer Measures for Tracking: Methods, Data Access & Lessons Learned

• Three Approaches to Linking Childhood Cancer and the Environment [PDF, 827 KB]
  Marni Bekkedal, Wisconsin Environmental Public Health Tracking
• Childhood Cancer Tracking Initiative in Massachusetts: Developing a New Electronic Tool [PDF, 200 KB]
  Cathy Gallagher, Community Assessment Program (CAP), Center for Environmental Health (CEH), Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH)
• Hill Air Force Base as a Case Study for Linking Cancer Data, Exposure Data and Residential Tenure Data [PDF, 1.3 MB]
  Sam LeFevre, Environmental Epidemiology Program, Office of Epidemiology, Utah Department of Health

December 13, 2004

Air Quality Measures for Tracking: Lessons Learned

• Exploring the Relationship between Traffic-Related Pollutants, Adverse Birth Outcomes, and Asthma [PDF, 1.5 MB]
  Paul English, Ph.D., M.P.H., Principal Investigator, California Environmental Health Tracking Program
• Assessing Ozone and PM2.5 Air Quality Data for Use with Asthma and Cardiovascular Disease Data [PDF, 525 KB]
  Thomas Talbot, New York State Department of Health
• Air Pollutant Data for Linking Studies [PDF, 3.7 MB]
  New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services