A message from the Environmental Protection Agency:
Join us for the monthly Cumulative Risk Webinar series presenting the latest research findings in cumulative risk assessment and impacts. EPA’s Risk Assessment Forum Cumulative Risk Assessment (CRA) Technical Panel is currently developing guidelines on CRA and NCER is funding extramural research to advance the science further and introduce additional strategies for examining combinations of chemical, physical and biological stressors while factoring in population vulnerabilities.
This Webinar is being conducted under EPA’s Sustainable and Healthy Communities
(SHC) Program. The purpose of the SHC program is to conduct research that will result in science-based knowledge to guide decisions that will better sustain a healthy society and environment in America’s communities. SHC’s outputs will help inform decision-makers as they make choices that meet regulatory mandates and will sustain positive human health outcomes and well-being, environmental quality, and economic resilience.
This webinar will be on Wednesday, June 26, 2013 from 3:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. EDT
To register go to: http://www.epa.gov/ncer/events/#cra-webinar
3:00 – 3:45 PM: A Novel Approach for Testing Interaction Effects of Environmental and Psychosocial Stressors on Disease Risk in a Logistic Regression Model
3:45 – 4:15 PM: Questions and Answers
What will you Learn?
— To describe the specific aims of the project entitled ‘Hypertension in
Mexican-Americans: Assessing Disparities in Air Pollutant Risks”.
— To explain the general, traditional approach of evaluating the statistical interaction of two factors on disease risk.
— To discuss key elements of a new approach for testing interaction effects in a logistic regression framework and to compare this new approach with the traditional ones.
Dr. Wenyaw Chan
Professor
Division of Biostatistics
School of Public Health
University of Texas-Health Science Center at Houston
Wenyaw Chan, Ph.D. is currently a Professor of Biostatistics at the School of Public Health, University of Texas-Health Science Center at Houston, where he started his faculty appointment in 1989. Dr. Chan has participated in more than 30 public health research projects including several in environmental health. He has served as a dissertation supervisor for more than two-dozen doctoral students. His methodology research includes design and analysis of longitudinal studies and stochastic models. He has authored or coauthored more than 130 peer-reviewed articles and two textbooks in statistics, medical sciences, or public health. Dr. Chan is currently a member of ASPH/Pfizer Public Health Academy of Distinguished Teachers.
Maria Jimenez
Research Coordinator for the EPA STAR grant:
“Hypertension in Mexican-Americans: Assessing Disparities in Air Pollutant Risks”
University Of Texas School Of Public Health
Maria Jimenez has been has been a strong voice and activist in social justice issues for the last forty-seven years. She has been a community organizer and activist in the Latino community. She has organized several community-based campaigns for social change, provided concrete support to immigrant workers fight for social justice, and voiced immigrant rights concerns in community and political processes already at work locally, nationally and internationally for social justice and change in multiple leadership roles for organizations such as the Immigration Law Enforcement Monitoring Project for the American Friends Service Committee, Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance (MIRA), the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, the Central American Resource Center (CRECEN)/America Para Todos, the Houston Interfaith Worker Justice Center (HIWJ), Alianza Mexicana and Texas Environmental Justice and Advocacy Services (TEJAS).
For more information on the webinar see: http://www.epa.gov/ncer/events/#cra-webinar
