Although there will be no formal Proceedings of this conference on paper, the agenda and all the abstracts were placed "permanently" on the NIOSH website after the conference.  All those who presented a plenary talk or poster were encouraged to submit an updated or expanded (up to four single-spaced pages) abstract before October 1, 2002, for consideration for publication on the website.

We expect that improved versions of the sections of the Workshop Discussion Paper that highlight "Opportunities for Effective Action to Reduce the Burden of Occupational and Environmental Skin Exposures" will be posted on the permanent conference website as a product of this conference.  They will contain an outline of steps to be taken and citations to guidance documents on how to accomplish those steps. This document is still being drafted.

In addition, the following Program Committee members have agreed to prepare a manuscript for publication in an appropriate peer-reviewed journal.  Each manuscript will summarize the Plenary Talks, Posters and Workshop discussion in one of the five main areas of the conference:

1) Defining the Problem, Coordinating Author - Boris Lushniak

2) Health Effects and Hazard Identification, Coordinating Author - Pietro Sartorelli

3) Measuring and Predicting Exposures, Coordinating Author - Leena Nylander-French

4) Controlling Exposures and Prevention, Coordinating Authors - Hans
Marquart and Mari-Ann Flyvholm

5) Developing Policy and Communicating Effectively, Coordinating Author - Heinz Ahlers

Citations to those publications will be posted here as they become available.