Meeting

Workshop on the NIOSH Research Roadmap on Asbestos Fibers and Other Elongated Mineral Particles

When:

March 30, 2009 (8:00 AM)

Topics:

Biomedical and Health Research, Diseases, Environmental Health, Health Care Workforce, Public Health

Activity:

Committee for the Review of the NIOSH Research Roadmap on Asbestos and Other Mineral Fibers

Board:

Board on Health Sciences Policy

  

The committee reviewed the scientific and technical quality of the roadmap document with a focus on proposed research to clarify the relationship between health effects and physiochemical properties of elongated mineral particles.   

The objective of the workshop was to discuss future research directions and identify opportunities to strengthen the roadmap document.

The NIOSH Roadmap--Asbestos Fibers and Other Elongated Mineral Particles: State of the Science and Roadmap for Research--can be found at the following link

http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docket/NIOSHdocket0099B.html