Tox in a Box: a Concise Training on the Health Assessment of Environmental Hazards [Learning Lab]

Have you had to interpret environmental data and make a public health determination? Have you been asked to give advice on how to reduce or eliminated exposure to a hazardous substance or condition?

Have you had to provide input on environmental sampling for an exposure investigation? If so, this 3-hour interactive session been designed for persons needing to learn how to apply exposure evaluation and risk assessment principles and methods to environmental health practice.

Attendees will learn how to evaluate environmental sampling data, discern exposure pathways, determine potential health hazards, and formulate methods to reduce or eliminate exposures. After covering basic hazard identification and exposure evaluation techniques, students will use case-studies of real environmental exposure situations to calculate health risks. The session is divided into four parts:

Part 1 – an overview of risk and public health assessment, including valuable tools of the field

Part 2 – estimating exposures including pathway identification and calculations

Part 3 – evaluating doses for potential responses using available guidelines and establishing guidelines when none are available

Part 4 – tying it all together with case studies