Current Projects
The National Academies’ Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine provides a mechanism for parties interested in environmental health from the academic, industrial, and federal research perspectives to meet and discuss sensitive and difficult environmental health issues of mutual interest in a neutral setting. The purpose is to foster dialogue, but not to provide recommendations. Since its inception, the Roundtable has addressed current and emerging issues in environmental health through discussions related to the state of the science, research gaps, and policy implications.The Roundtable is currently focused on issues of domestic and international importance such as climate change, sustainable drinking water, transportation-related energy use, and environmental health decision making.
Previous Projects
The National Academies’ Standing Committee on Risk Analysis Issues and Reviews hosted a series of public workshops that served as a venue for discussion of issues critical to the development and review of objective, realistic, and scientifically based human health risk analyses for selected environmental contaminants.
The National Academies’ Standing Committee on Emerging Issues and Data on Environmental Contaminants organized workshops and published newsletters and workshop summaries from 2001-2007. Workshop summaries, presentations, and newsletters are still available on the Emerging Issues website linked above.