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3^rd Annual Town Hall Meeting: Translating Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Into Action

2008 Town Hall Meeting Presentation Summaries

For a full summary of the entire day, click below to download the PDF file:

Town Hall 2008 Full Summary

Individual Presentation Summaries

Panel One: BABCERC Research Update

• Dr. Robert Hiatt, Bay Area Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Center (BABCERC) Director: "The BCERC: New Information from a New Approach to the Conduct of Science"
  
  
• Dr. Paul Yaswen, BABCERC Researcher: "The Role of the Scientific Method in Rational Decision Making"
  
  
• Dr. Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff, BABCERC Researcher: "Models to Study Mammary Stem Cells"
  
  
• Dr. Zena Werb, BABCERC Researcher:
  "Location! Location! Location!
  How the Neighborhood Contributes to Breast Development and Cancer"
  
  
• Dr. Lawrence Kushi, BABCERC Researcher: "Environmental and Genetic Determinants of Puberty – A Mid-Project Report from the CYGNET* Study"
  
  

Panel Two: The Role of Community Participation in the Research Process

• Dr. Marion Kavanaugh-Lynch, California Breast Cancer Research Program Director:
  "California Breast Cancer Research Program - CBPR Grants and Initiatives"
  
  
• Carla Perez, Northern California Program Director, Communities for a Better Environment: "Community-based Research for Environmental Justice"
  
  
• Dr. Rachel Morello-Frosch, UC Berkeley, Dept of Environmental Science: "The Right to Know in an Era of Toxic Ignorance: Ethical and Scientific Challenges for Reporting Back Personal Exposures to Environmental Chemicals"
  
  
• Assemblywoman Fiona Ma: "AB 1108-Protecting Children from Toxic Toys: Local and State Victories Lead to a National Campaign"
  
  
• Senator Carole Migden Field Representative Yvonne Beals: "SB484: The Safe Cosmetics Act"
  
  
• Julia Liou, Co-Founder, California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative: "The California Nail Salon Collaborative's Efforts to Advance Worker Health and Safety in Nail and Beauty Salon Sectors in California"
  
  

Keynote Speaker

• Mark Schapiro, Author: "Exposing a Toxic U.S. Policy"