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Home Graduate Advisor Weekly Seminars Workshops Student Resources     Drexel University Graduate Programs in Environmental Science, Engineering, and Policy 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia PA 19104	Olin Workshop on Risk Assessment: Policy, Philosophy, and Methods Purpose of the Workshop Risk assessment has increasingly pervaded environmental regulation, decision-making, and legislation over the past decade. At the interface between life and chemical sciences, engineering, public policy, and law, debates over the methods of and even the application of risk assessment techniques have become important for the environmental professional to understand. The application of risk assessment to environmental decision-making stipulates that we no longer simply ask whether something is good or bad, but what the appropriate balance between conflicting goals, and often alternative risks, might be. This workshop framed some of the current issues, practices, and debates in the area of environmental risk assessment, with a particular focus on applications to human health applications. Events in 2019-2020 MacAlister Hall, Thursday, March 13, 1997 9:00 a.m. Registration 9:30 a.m. Welcome by Associate Provost Richard Haracz, Ph.D. and Michael A. Gealt, Ph.D., Director, School of Environmental Science, Engineering and Policy 9:45 a.m. Mr. Reginald F. Harris, Regional Environmental Justice Coordinator & Senior Toxicologist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region III, "The Use of Risk Assessment for Urban Environmental Problems" 10:30 a.m. Dr. Paul Chrostowski, Principal, The Weinberg Group, Inc., Washington, D.C., "A Survey of Current Practice in Environmental Health Risk Assessment" 11:15 a.m. Dr. Michael Jayjock, Senior Research Fellow & Manager of Risk Assessment, Rohm and Haas Company, Spring House, PA, "Uncertainty in Risk Assessment: Demonstration of the Monte Carlo Technique" 12:00 p.m. Open Lunch 1:30 p.m. Panel - "Government and Regulatory Perspectives" - Dr. Alan Stern, NJDEPE; Katy Kunzer, Chemical Manufacturers Association 3:00 p.m. Professor Robert Kuehn, School of Law, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, "The Environmental Justice Implications of Quantitative Risk Assessment" 5:00 p.m. Dinner, Faculty Club, MacAlister Hall, 6th Floor 7:00 p.m. Keynote Presentation by Dr. Gail Charnley, Executive Director of the Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management, Washington, D.C.. "Environmental Risk Management Decision Making"