2017 PFAS Conference Presentations

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Day 1

Introductions:

• Phil Brown (SSEHRI)
• Sylvia Broude (Toxics Action Center)
• Laurel Schaider (Silent Spring Institute)

Keynote Address:

• Linda Birnbaum (Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)

Social and scientific discovery – The national organization level:

• Ken Cook (Environmental Working Group)

State of the science on PFASs:

• Courtney Carignan (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health), Alan Ducatman (West Virginia University), Richard Clapp (University of Massachusetts-Lowell)

Community organizing (Military and airport sites):

• Andrea Amico (Testing for Pease – Portsmouth, NH)
• Hope Grosse and Joanne Stanton (Warminster, PA)

Source identification and drinking water treatment:

• Elsie Sunderland (Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science)
• Andrew Lindstrom (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency), Jason Galloway (Ohio State University)
• Brandon Kernen (New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services)

Social and scientific discovery: Building a broad coalition around chemical classes:

• Alissa Cordner (Whitman College), Lauren Richter (Northeastern University)

Day 2

Scientists working with communities:

• Courtney Carignan (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
• Laurel Schaider (Silent Spring Institute)

Role of local, state, and federal agencies:

• Fardin Oliaei (DST Health Solutions; formerly Minnesota Pollution Control Agency)
• Sue Manente (Michigan Department of Health and Human Services)

Community organizing (Industrial sites):

• Tracy Carluccio (Delaware Riverkeeper Network)
• Laurene Allen (Citizens for Clean Water in Merrimack – Merrimack, NH)

Local and investigative media coverage:

• Sharon Lerner (The Intercept)