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Partnership call: Advancing Risk Assessment: Progress and Ongoing Obstacles
Thur, May 24


Conference: Healthy Environments Across Generations
New York Academy of Medicine
June 7-8, 2012
 

4/26/12: MP3 recording available: CHE Cafe call: Designing Healthy Communities: a conversation with Richard Jackson, MD, MPH


4/17/12: MP3 recording available: Nanotechnology: A Science and Policy Update 


3/12/12: MP3 recording available: Phthalates and Proposed REACH Regulations


2/14/12: MP3 recording available: Health Effects of Indoor Air Contaminants
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Extracting Knowledge From Science: A Conversation With Elias Zerhouni
9 March 2006

Revolution and innovation in basic science, not changes at the margins, are what it will take to really improve health care.

Health Affairs, The Policy Journal of the Health Sphere, 9 March 2006, Barbara J. Culliton

ABSTRACT: National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Elias Zerhouni is pushing hard for innovation and the risk taking required to make major leaps in medicine. Fully attuned to cutting-edge work that crosses disciplines, he cites nanotechnology, clinical databases designed to answer research questions, systems biology, and an openness to radical ideas among his top priorities. The NIH director’s job, he says, “is to have a vision.” This requires leveraging NIH funding so that money is spent more wisely and has a cumulative effect on population health. Knowledge can be extracted from science, and health system transformation is made possible. Continue reading...

 

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