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Using mass spectrometry based methods to evaluate human exposure to environmental chemicals

Using mass spectrometry based methods to evaluate human exposure to environmental chemicals

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<strong>School of Environmental Sciences Jawaharlal Nehru University</strong> <strong>Using mass spectrometry based methods to evaluate human exposure to environmental chemicals</strong> <strong>Dr. Dana Boyd Barr </strong> Professor of Exposure Science and Environmental Health  Department of Environmental Health  Rollins School of Public Health,.  Emory University, Atlanta, USA Venue: <strong>ADB Seminar Hall, SES</strong> Date: <strong>1st February, 2017 </strong> Time<strong> 3.30-4.30</strong> <strong>About the Speaker:</strong> Dr Barr has worked to establish a state-of-the-art laboratory at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health for assessing human exposure to a wide range of chemicals. Prior to joining Emory seven years ago, Dr. Barr was employed at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 23 years. During her tenure at CDC, she devoted much of her time to the development of methods for assessing human exposure to a variety of environmental toxicants including current-use pesticides, phthalates, organochlorine chemicals (pesticides and PCBs), phytoestrogens, diethylene glycol, methyl eugenol, vinyl chloride and others. Dr. Barr has authored or coauthored over 300 peer-reviewed publications. Some of these papers have been landmark papers showing human exposure to pesticides in the general population and determining appropriate matrices for biomonitoring at each life stage. She is the past President and treasurer of the International Society of Exposure Science (ISES; formerly ISEA); she is past Editor-in-Chief and current Editor Emeritus of ISES's official journal, Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology. She is also an associate editor of Environmental Health Perspectives and serves on the editorial board of the J.of Chromatography &amp; Separation Techniques, J.of Health Research, and Advances in Medicine. She is also an active member of the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology, Society of Toxicology, ACS, American Society for Mass Spectrometry, and the Association of Official Analytical Chemists. She has served many important roles in the field of exposure assessment including serving on EPA review boards such as the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory Panel. As a result of her efforts, Dr. Barr has received many awards including ISES's Daisey Award for Outstanding Investigator, two HHS Secretary's awards for exposure-health investigations involving diethylene glycol and methyl parathion poisoning, 2004 Federal Scientific Employee of the Year, CDC's Mackel Award for outstanding collaboration among epidemiology and laboratory, and EPA's Silver Medal for outstanding contributions to the development of protocols for the National Children's Study. She is a 2014, 2015 and 2016 recipient of Thomson Reuters "Most Highly Cited Researcher" award in ecology and the environment over the previous 10 years.

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.