NIEHS, Children's Environmental Health Workshop. Triagle Park. Jan 22 and 23.

[Guest guest]

NIEHS, Children's Environmental Health Workshop. Triagle Park. Jan 22 and

23.

www-apps.niehs.nih.gov/conferences/od/cehr/

_Live webcast of this workshop_

(http://www.niehs.nih.gov/multimedia/live/2007-01/agenda.html) will be

available on January 22-23, 2007

The goal of this workshop is to develop new strategies for research,

exposure and effects monitoring, intervention and prevention in children's

environmental health. Specific objectives are to maximize the effectiveness of

scientific research - basic science, exposure monitoring/biomonitoring,

epidemiology, toxicology, clinical medicine and multidisciplinary studies - and

to

enhance the translation of research to the bedside, to the community and to

public

policy. The first day will begin with discussions of two case studies that

demonstrate the successful implementation of evidence-based

intervention/prevention strategies that became possible once links between

environmental

exposures and a disease in children had been identified. The first case study

will

focus on lead and neurotoxicity. Findings on the adverse effects of lead on

neurodevelopment ultimately led to efforts to reduce exposures to lead. Asthma

will be used as a second case study because it provides a clear example of

environmental triggers and some science-based prevention/intervention

strategies that are already being implemented. The second day of the workshop

will

focus on applying lessons learned from the two " success " case studies to two

children's disorders that appear to have environmental etiologies but are less

well understood: disorders of lipid and carbohydrate metabolism and attention

deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).