NIEHS scientists and staff engage in a variety of activities that impact Global Environmental Health such as serving on international scientific review panels and policy committees, and contributing to the GEH initiatives of NIH. This page highlights a selection of these activities that took place during 2006-2008.
Advisory Work
Australia
Kenneth Korach
Scientific Advisor Board for Prince Henry's Institute, Monash University, Melbourne Australia
International
Retha Newbold
Scientific Advisory Board of DES Action International
Israel
Samuel Wilson
Scientific Advisory Board to the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Japan
Samuel Wilson
Scientific Advisory Board to the Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Hiroshima, Japan
Regional-Europe
William Stokes
European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods (ECVAM) Scientific Advisory Committee (ESAC)
Scientific Society Membership
International
Jean Harry
Council of the International Neurotoxicity Society
John Drake
President of the International Genetics Federation
Ron Herbert
Global Editorial Steering Committee of the North American Society of Toxicologic Pathologists
GEH Training Activities
Cameroon
Kenneth Olden
Honorary Chair of the 2006 Risk Assessment and Quality Assurance Training Workshop sponsored by the African Society of Toxicological Sciences, Limbe, Cameroon, October 21-28, 2006
Czech Republic
Donna Baird
Taught course on implantation for the European Society of Human Reproduction, Prague, June, 2006
France
June Dunnick
Co-organizer of a Training Workshop on Methods and Guidelines for the Development of Mutation Databases in Cancer, sponsored by International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France, July 9-10, 2007
India
Ron Herbert
Presented a series of training lectures at the International Institute for Biotechnology and Toxicology Meeting, Chennai, India, January 15-19, 2007
Spain
Shyamal Peddada
Visiting Professor at University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
Po-Chuen Chan
Working Group in assessing the carcinogenicity of ingested nitrate and nitrite, and the cyanobacteria peptide toxins microcystin-LR and nodularins
International
Christopher Portier
IARC Advisory Group on Planning Volume 100 of the IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risk to Humans Agents
IARC Advisory Group tasked with rewriting the preamble to the IARC Monograph Series
Dori Germolec
Author, Environmental Health Criteria Document on the contribution of Environmental Factors to Autoimmune Disease World Health Organization Center for Autoimmunity in Bilthoven, Netherlands
Fred Miller
The International Myositis Collaborative Study Group; Steering committee of the International Myositis Classification Criteria Project to develop new classification criteria for myositis and its subgroups; International Myositis Assessment and Clinical Study Group
Paul Foster
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development peer review group for evaluation of the Hershberger assay test guideline
Raymond Tice
International Comet Assay Validation Study Management Team
Retha Newbold
International Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Endocrine Disruptor Working Group ICCVAM Endocrine Disruptor Working Group
Ron Herbert
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Working Group to assess the potential carcinogenicity of 60 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and several occupational exposures involving coal-derived polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
William Jameson
National Toxicology Program representative to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Working Group meeting to review the cancer data for carbon black, titanium dioxide, and non-asbestiform talc