Dr. Lynn Goldman, former EPA Assistant Administrator For Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances and current Chair of Johns Hopkins's Indepartmental Program in Applied Public Health, will be at George Washington University tomorrow (Tuesday, 11/27) to give a talk entitled "Chemicals: Making Public Health Policy in the Face of Uncertainty." The event will run from noon until 1:30pm at the GWU Hospital Auditorium, as part of the GWU School of Public Health and Health Services Public Health Grand Rounds.
UPDATE: Transcript and video now available from Kaisernetwork
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