Publications by authors named "Peggy M Shepard"
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- * It outlines the need for updated techniques and frameworks that better account for factors such as early life exposures and social or economic stressors, explaining that the standard 10-fold difference assumption is inadequate.
- * The review emphasizes that incorporating new tools and data, such as probabilistic methods and diverse biological models, can enhance protection for vulnerable groups by improving the consideration of age and multiple exposure factors in regulatory guidelines.
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- The global production of industrial chemicals is rising, leading to health risks and disproportionate impacts on low-wealth and communities of color.
- Multiple health organizations are urging improved regulations to protect against harmful exposures.
- A set of five consensus recommendations aims to enhance EPA policies, emphasizing accountability for chemical producers, recognizing potential hazards even without data, better protecting at-risk populations, reevaluating assumptions about "safe" exposure levels, and addressing conflicts of interest in risk assessments.
While it is well understood that multiple and cumulative environmental stressors negatively impact health at the community level, existing ethical research review procedures are designed to protect individual research participants but not communities. Increasing concerns regarding the ethical conduct of research in general and environmental and genetic research in particular underscore the need to expand the scope of current human participant research regulations and ethical guidelines to include protections for communities. In an effort to address this issue, West Harlem Environmental Action (WE ACT), a nonprofit, community-based environmental justice organization in New York City that has been involved in community-academic partnerships for the past decade, used qualitative interview data to develop a pilot model for community review of environmental health science research.
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