Sunday April 9, Afternoon Session
Location: Emory Amphitheater
1:00 pm    Welcome, Dan Greenbaum, President, Health Effects Institute

Data Access and Availability
Chair: Donald Kennedy, Editor-in-Chief, Science, Stanford University; and HEI Board of Directors
Leaders from government, science, and industry will discuss why some have sought greater access to scientific data; identify key, sometimes practical questions and concerns regarding data access and sharing; and propose constructive solutions to providing access post Shelby legislation.

1:15 pm    Introduction, Donald Kennedy

1:35 pm    Agency Experience and Guidelines, Wendy Baldwin, National Institutes of Health

2:05 pm    Perspective: Industry, Lucinda Minton Langworthy, Counsel, Hunton and Williams

2:25 pm    Perspective: Investigator, David Savitz, University of North Carolina

2:45 pm    General Discussion

3:15 pm    Break

Monday April 10, Morning Session

8:30 am     The HEI Strategic Plan: 2000–2005
Dan Greenbaum, President, HEI; Dan Tosteson, Harvard Medical School, and HEI Review Committee Chair; Bob O'Keefe, Vice President, HEI; and Jane Warren, Director of Science, HEI
HEI has developed a new strategic plan to provide vision for its efforts in the new century. In this session, members of the HEI staff and Committees will describe HEI’s future directions and initiatives.

Approaches to Improving Assessment of Exposure to Air Pollutants
Chairs: Thomas Kensler, Johns Hopkins University and HEI Review Committee; and Robert Sawyer, University of California, Berkeley, and HEI Research Committee
The difficulty of accurately assessing individual exposure has long been recognized to be a limitation of epidemiologic studies. This session will focus on methods for improving our ability to reconstruct or determine personal exposure to air pollutants and for reducing exposure measurement error. The session is divided into three parts. The first part will focus on the studies using biomarkers of dose, the second on methods to improve retrospective assessment of exposure to diesel exhaust, and the third on the exposure measurement error in epidemiologic studies of particulate matter.

                  I. Air Toxics Exposure and Biomarkers

                   II. Diesel Particulate Emissions and Exposure

11:00 am    Changes in particulate emssions over time in a highway tunnel
                  Alan Gertler, Desert Research Institute

11:25 am    Assessment of the feasibility of estimating current and past exposure to diesel exhaust
                  Thomas Smith, Harvard School of Public Health

11:50 am    Validation of methods for evaluating exposure to diesel exhaust
                  Gurumurthy Ramachandran, University of Minnesota

12:30 pm    Lunch

1:00 pm      Luncheon address
                   Norine Noonan, Assistant Administrator, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Tuesday April 11 Morning Session

The State of PM Regulation in the U.S. and Europe -  EPA's PM Criteria Document and WHO PM Guidelines
This session will offer the opportunity to learn more about the status of PM regulation in the U.S. and worldwide.

8:30 am     An Update on the review and implementation of the PM National Air Quality Standards
                John Bachman, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

9:00 am     WHO Air Quality Guidelines for Europe: Air pollution control in the context of transport and health
                 Dieter Schwela, World Health Organization, Geneva

National Mortality and Morbidity Air Pollution Study (NMMAPS)
Chair: Gerald van Belle, University of Washington and HEI Research Committee
NMMAPS is a nationwide epidemiologic study of air pollution and daily morbidity and mortality in 90 U.S. cities. The NMMAPS investigators have also developed methods to estimate reduced in life expectancy associated with short-term exposure to air pollution and to quantify the impact of errors in air pollution exposure measurements on the estimated association of air pollution with daily mortality. In this session, investigators, members of the NMMAPS Oversight Committee, and members of the HEI Review Committee will present and discuss the complete results of the analyses.

9:30 am       Introduction, Gerald van Belle

9:40 am       Presentation of results on morbidity and mortality, Jonathan Samet, Scott Zeger, and Francesca Dominici, Johns Hopkins University; Douglas Dockery and Joel Schwartz, Harvard School of Public Health

10:20 am     Break

10:40 am   Presentation of Results on Morbidity and Mortality (continued)

11:00 am   Comments from the HEI NMMAPS Review Panel and perspective on the future of epidemiological research on acute effects of air pollution, Sverre Vedal, University of British Columbia, NMMAPS Review Panel, and HEI Review Committee

11:20 am   General Discussion

12:00 pm    Lunch

1:00 pm     Key scientific issues in the Reanalysis of the Harvard Six Cities and American Cancer Society studies
                 Clarice Weinberg, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and HEI Epidemiology Reanalysis Project Expert Panel

1:20 pm     Preliminary Results, Daniel Krewski and Rick Burnett, University of Ottawa 

Meeting Rates*  (hotel not included)

Full Conference ......................................................................................................$440
Sunday afternoon through Tuesday (includes all meals, Sunday lunch through Tuesday lunch)

Single Day Rates

• Sunday Includes lunch, break, reception and dinner........... ...$140
• Monday Includes three meals, breaks and reception..............$180
• Tuesday Includes breakfast, break and lunch........................$120
• Day Rates including breaks and lunch only.............................$80