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Evaluating the Impact of Cumulative Stressors on Health

April 19, 2010
1:00 pm US Eastern Time

Slides & Resources

Speaker Presentations

Rachel Morello-Frosch: Synthesizing the Science of Cumulative Impacts: Implications for Policy

Jon Levy: Evaluating Cumulative Impacts: The Value of Epidemiology

Devon Payne-Sturges:Evaluating the Impact of Cumulative Stressors on Health

Devon Payne-Sturges also recommends that call participants review the following: Strengthening Environmental Justice Research and Decision Making: A Symposium on the Science of Disproportionate Environmental Health Impacts (includes symposium papers/presentations

Additional Background Materials

The Environmental "Riskscape" and Social Inequality: Implications for Explaining Maternal and Child Health Disparities, Rachel Morello-Frosch and Edmond D. Shenassa, Environmental Health Perspectives,Vol. 114, No. 8, 2006

Is Epidemiology the Key to Cumulative Risk Assessment? Jonathan I. Levy, Risk Anaysis, Vol. 28, No. 6, 2008

Perspectives from the National Academy of Science: The Importance of Background, Gary Ginsberg, CT Department of Public Health, December 15, 2009

Environmental Health Disparities: A Framework Integrating Psychosocial and Environmental Concepts, Gilbert C. Gee and Devon C. Payne-Sturges, Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 112, No. 17, 2004

Strengthening Environmental Justice Research and Decision Making: A symposium on the Science of Disproportionate Environmental Health Impacts, March 17-19, 2010
Read poster and paper abstracts from the symposium

Listen to Recording

CHE hosted this call exploring how cumulative impact science indicates that multiple factors, including social, psychosocial, economic, physical, chemical and biological determinants, may contribute to disproportionate human health or environmental impacts. The risk of many diseases may be moderated by social and environmental factors, and some populations may systematically experience higher levels of these factors. This call on cumulative impact presented an overview of cumulative risk assessment and the need to incorporate key nonchemical stressors.

Featured Speakers

  • Rachel Morello-Frosh, PhD, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
  • Jon Levy, ScD, Harvard School of Public Health
  • Devon Payne-Sturges, DrPH, US EPA's Office of Children's Health Protection

The call was moderated by Steve Heilig, CHE Director of Public Health and Education, and Director of Public Health and Education, San Francisco Medical Society.