Title: Thinking One Step Ahead: Strategies to Strengthen Epidemiological Data for Use in Risk Assessment

Carrie Arnold is a freelance science writer living in Virginia. Her work has appeared in Scientific American, Discover, New Scientist, Smithsonian, and more. About This Article open Citation: Arnold C. 2014. Thinking one step ahead: strategies to strengthen epidemiological data for use in risk assessment. Environ Health Perspect 122:A311; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.122-A311 News Topics: Research Issues and Initiatives, Risk Assessment Published: 1 November 2014 PDF Version (332 KB) Related EHP Article Evaluating Uncertainty to Strengthen Epidemiologic Data For Use in Human Health Risk Assessments Carol J. Burns, J. Michael Wright, Jennifer B. Pierson, Thomas F. Bateson, Igor Burstyn, Daniel A. Goldstein, James E. Klaunig, Thomas J. Luben, Gary Mihlan, Leonard Ritter, A. Robert Schnatter, J. Morel Symons, and Kun Don Yi Risk assessment is a cornerstone of environmental health research and policy making.1 A commentary in this issue of EHP presents a set of recommendations and guidelines to help researchers more effectively characterize uncertainty in epidemiological findings.2 Not only will this provide more transparency for the science itself, says coauthor Jennifer Pierson, a scientific program manager at the ILSI Health and Environmental Sciences Institute, it should also lead to more sound policies when those findings are integrated into risk assessments. “Risk assessment is nothing magical; it’s a process to guide decision making. As with any kin...
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