ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH TRACKING AND
BIOMONITORING ADVISORY PANEL
Red River Room, Snelling Office Park, 1645 Energy Park Drive, St. Paul, MN
MEETING AGENDA JUNE 7, 2011
Time
Agenda item
Presenter(s)
Item type/Anticipated outcome
1:00
Welcome and
introductions
Bruce Alexander,
Chair
Members and audience members are invited to
introduce themselves.
TRACKING
1:05
New State Tracking
Content Initiatives
1. Environmental
Tobacco Smoke
(ETS)
2. Arsenic in Private
Wells
1:40
MDH staff:
Jeannette Sample
Blair Sevcik
Larry Souther
Mike Convery
Decision Item
Staff will review the selection process for new
Minnesota-specific content areas for Tracking and
review the progress through that selection process for
ETS Exposure and Private Wells.
Panel members are invited to ask questions or provide
input on new content areas. The chair will invite panel
members to vote to recommend the ETS content area
for ongoing tracking. (see proposed language)
Tracking Updates
1.Portal launch
2.Communications
3. CDC initiatives
Updates are provided on Tracking topics in the panel
meeting materials. No presentation is planned. Panel
members are invited to ask questions about any of
these topics.
BIOMONITORING
1:45
CDC Biomonitoring
Communication
Research
Claudia Vousden,
CDC
Jean Johnson
Information sharing
Claudia Vousden (CDC) and Jean Johnson will describe
results of recent collaboration on a biomonitoring
communications research project in Minnesota’s East
Metro PFC project community. Panel members are
invited to ask questions or offer input on ways to
improve future biomonitoring communications with
affected communities.
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Time
Agenda item
2:15
Project Updates:
1. East Metro PFC
Follow-up
2. Lake Superior
Mercury
2:25
Presenter(s)
Item type/Anticipated outcome
Brief updates on the biomonitoring projects are
provided (tentative). Panel members are invited to ask
questions or provide input about the status of any of
these projects.
Break
2:40
Riverside Prenatal
Project: Preliminary
results for
environmental
phenols
Jessica Nelson
Logan Spector
Discussion Item
Staff will present preliminary results from the Riverside
prenatal biomonitoring study and describe plans for
disseminating the results. Panel members are invited
to offer feedback on the analyses and to make
recommendations for communicating the findings and
for further action based on pilot study results. UMN PI
Logan Spector will join the discussion, in which panel
members are asked to respond to the following
questions:
Considering the limitations in study size and the
available data presented, what conclusions can be
drawn and what, if any, additional analyses are
recommended?
Is further biomonitoring in this community
recommended?
3:20
Strategic Planning
Barbara Scott
Murdock
3:45
Legislative Update
Jeanne Ayers/
Aggie Leitheiser
Discussion item.
Update on stakeholder involvement & suggestions for
an ongoing MDH biomonitoring program: target
populations & analytes. Panel members are invited to
ask questions and provide input on future planning,
partnerships and funding strategies.
Assistant Commissioners will discuss the current state
budget proposals for fiscal years 2012-2013 and likely
impact on EHTB program.
3:55
New business
Bruce Alexander
4:00
Adjourn
The chair will invite panel members to suggest topics
for future meetings.
Next meeting:
Tuesday, September 14, 2011, 1-4 p.m. Red River Room, Snelling Office Park
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