Evaluating the Impact of Cumulative Stressors on Health
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
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.
