by Amy Liebman

OHS members Amy K. Liebman, MPA, and Matthew Keifer, MD, MPH, participated in Physicians for Social Responsibility Environmental Health Policy Institute (August 2011). They were among several contributors who were asked to address the question: How does our nation’s reliance on pesticides affect the health of those who plant and harvest our food?

Liebman and Kiefer contributed to the discussion with a piece entitled, Advocating for Policy Change to Require Clinical Diagnostic Tools and Biomonitoring of Exposures to Pesticides, in which they address the APHA policy process and highlight the OHS Section’s recent policy on biomonitoring. We welcome comments to the article and encourage others to share their success in using APHA policies in their advocacy efforts or to highlight the OHS Section’s activist efforts.  Many thanks to OHS member Mary Miller for reviewing this article.