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Contents
- Hazardous Substances & Public Health, a quarterly newsletter published by ATSDR, is now available on this WWW server.
- Internet HazDat: Updated December 30, 1994. The Internet version of ATSDR's hazardous substance release/health effects database, is now available and accessible through this World-Wide Web server. You can fill out forms to query the database and use hypertext data to "drill down" to more detailed information. The very popular Public Health Statements are also available with full text search and retrieval (now with support for Boolean search operations).
- Announcing the International Congress on Hazardous Waste:
Impact on Human and Ecological Health, to be held June 5-8,
1995, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Updated on March 29, 1995 with details on registration, hotels, etc. Now includes the tentative program for the meeting.
- Take a look at "Science Corner at ATSDR" here on ATSDR's Web
server to find a lot of interesting links to Internet
information, including NEW links to Information about Superfund Reauthorization.
- The 50th Anniversary of
the Public Health Service Act
The mission of the Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), as an agency of the Public
Health Service in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
is to prevent exposure and adverse human health effects and
diminished quality of life associated with exposure to hazardous
substances from waste sites, unplanned releases, and other sources
of pollution present in the environment.ATSDR is directed by congressional mandate to perform specific
functions concerning the effect on public health of hazardous
substances in the environment. These functions include public
health assessments of waste sites, health consultations concerning
specific hazardous substances, health surveillance and registries,
response to emergency releases of hazardous substances, applied
research in support of public health assessments, information
development and dissemination, and education and training
concerning hazardous substances.
ATSDR's mission and the goals of ATSDR are reflected within its organizational structure and its
statement of values.
- ATSDR
- "Group Name"
- 1600 Clifton Rd., ("Mail Stop")
- Atlanta, GA. 30333
Group Name, Mail Stop, Telephone, and Fax:
- Office of the Assistant Administrator, E28,
(404)639-0700, (404)639-0744
- Washington, D.C. Office, P06,
(202)690-7536, (202)690-6985
- Board of Scientific Counselors,
E28, (404)639-0708, (404)639-0586
- Office of Federal
Programs, E28, (404)639-0730, (404)639-0744
- Office of
Information Resources Management, E28, (404)639-0720,
(404)639-0740
- Office of Policy and External Affairs, E60,
(404)639-0500, (404)639-0522
- Office of Program Operations and
Management, E60, (404)639-0550, (404)639-0568
- Office of
Regional Operations, E57, (404)639-6350,
(404)639-0713
- Office of the Associate Administrator for Science,
E28, (404)639-0708, (404)639-0586
- Public Health Practice
Coordination Group, E28, (404)639-0566,
(404)639-0715
- Division of Health Assessment and Consultation,
E32, (404)639-0610, (404)639-0654
- Division of Health
Education, E33, (404)639-6204, (404)639-6207/6208
- Division
of Health Studies, E31, (404)639-6200, (404)639-6220
- Division of Toxicology, E29, (404)639-6300,
(404)639-6060
HazDat,
ATSDR's Hazardous Substance Release/Health Effects Database, is the
scientific and administrative database developed to provide access
to information on the release of hazardous substances from
Superfund sites or from emergency events and on the effects of
hazardous substances on the health of human populations.
ToxFAQs are short, easy-to-read summaries about hazardous substances that have been excerpted from the ATSDR Toxicological Profiles.
Public Health Statement Text Search enables the World-Wide Web user to search for specific words or combination of words occurring in ATSDR's Public Health Statements. Taken from the Toxicological Profiles, the Public Health Statements offer easy-to-read summaries of many hazardous substances to which people might be exposed.
Congressional Testimony of ATSDR staff.
Datasets from other organizations containing environmental, earth
science, and global change information can be located through the Consortium for
International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) Catalog
Services.
As an agency of the Public Health Service within
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, ATSDR works
closely with the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) is also concerned with the same sites at which
ATSDR performs health assessments. The U.S. Geological Survey
(USGS) maintains an index with links to
Earth and Environmental Science network resources, including CIESIN.
NASA maintains a
similar index with links to Federal
government network resources.
U.S. Government Information by Organization is maintained by the Federal Information Exchange, Inc.
U.S. Government Information by Subject can be found at FedWorld, operated by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS).
Dr. Charlie Xintaras, Office of the
Associate Administrator for Science, has been exploring the
Internet for environmental health information resources relevant to
the work of ATSDR scientists and has made them available in "Science Corner at ATSDR".
- Adams, William D., Deputy Assistant Administrator
- Andrews, John S., Jr., M.D., Associate
Administrator for Science
- Bashor, Mark M., Ph.D., Director,
Office of Federal Programs
- Buynoski, George C., Director,
Office of Regional Operations
- DeRosa, Christopher T., Ph.D.,
Director, Division of Toxicology
- Jacobs, Sharon O., Director,
Office of Information Resources Management
- Johnson, Barry L., Ph.D., Assistant
Administrator
- Jones, Georgi A., Director, Office of Policy and
External Affairs
- Lichtveld, Maureen, M.D., Chief Biomedical
Officer for Public Health Practice
- Lum, Max R., Ed.D.,
Director, Division of Health Education
- Lybarger, Jeffrey A., M.D.,
Director, Division of Health Studies
- McCumiskey, Peter J.,
Director, Office of Program Operations and Management
- Wargo, Andrea, Ph.D., Associate Administrator, Washington,
D.C. Office
- Williams, Robert C., P.E., Director, Division of
Health Assessment and Consultation
- Xintaras, Charlie, Sc.D.,
Executive Secretary, Board of Scientific Counselors
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