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New Release from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine: Pivotal Interfaces of Environmental Health and Infectious Disease Research to Inform Responses to Outbreaks, Epidemics, and Pandemics
Proceedings of a Workshop – In Brief 

Pathogens are the cause of infectious diseases, but the environment can play an important role in influencing the conditions under which pathogens spread and cause harm. 

Understanding the complex interplay between people, pathogens, and the environment—broadly encompassing our chemical, biological, physical, and social surroundings—can lead to a more complete picture of where and how infectious diseases emerge, how they spread, and how to respond to outbreaks. As understanding of the environment’s role in infectious disease increases, this knowledge can help to inform and improve tools for monitoring, containing, and preventing outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics. 

On June 8-9, 2021, the virtual workshop, Pivotal Interfaces of Environmental Health and Infectious Disease Research to Inform Responses to Outbreaks, Epidemics, and Pandemics, provided a venue for experts in infectious diseases, environmental health, and data science from government, academia, and the private sector to examine current knowledge about the environment–infectious disease interface and to explore how this knowledge can be used to inform public health decisions.

This Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief provides a high-level summary of the workshop’s presentations and discussions.

Read Workshop Proceedings

Request for Manuscripts on "Human Health and Environmental Exposure Assessment"

Professor Darryl B. Hood, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, is the guest editor of an upcoming issue of the International Journal of Envrionmental Research and Public Health. This issue is intended to provide an opportunity for the research community to publish valuable results from assessments describing cumulative effects from exposure to combinations of chemical and non-chemical stressors on chronic disease outcomes. Manuscripts describing models that support new approaches for conducting cumulative risk assessments towards assessing the impacts of multiple, interactive, and cumulative exposures from the environment on adverse personal health events and population-level health disparities are encouraged. For more information, go to  https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/special_issues/Human_Environ_Exposure



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It is with deep sadness that we inform our members of the recent death of long-time member and past president Robert Daniel "Dan" Benz, Ph.D. His obituary is posted on the Member News page.

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