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For disclosure purposes, the authors report their professional titles as follows: Richard A. Lemen, PhD, Assistant Surgeon General, USPHS (ret.), Deputy Director and Acting Director. NIOSH (ret.); Henry Anderson, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Wisconsin Division of Public Health; John C. Bailar III, MD, PhD, Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago, Scholar in Residence, The National Academies; Eula Bingham, PhD, Former Assistant Secretary, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Professor of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati; Barry Castleman, ScD, Environmental Consultant, Baltimore, MD; Arthur L. Frank, MD, PhD, Drexel University School of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA; James Huff PhD, Associate Director for Chemical Carcinogenesis, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Joseph LaDou MD, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of California, San Francisco; James Melius, MD, DrPH, NYS Laborers Health and Safety Fund; Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH, Immediate-past Chair Occupational Health and Safety Section, American Public Health Association, Anthony Robhins, MD, Former Director, NIOSH, Professor of Public Health, Tufts University School of Medicine, and Co-Editor, Journal of Public Health Policy; Daniel Thau Teitelbaum, MD, Adjunet Professor, Occupational and Environmental Health Colorado School of Public Health; Laura S. Welch, MD, Professorial Lecturer, George Washington University, School of Public Health and Health Services.
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Lemen, R., Anderson, H., Bailar, J. et al. Exposure science will not increase protection of workers from asbestos-caused diseases: NIOSH fails to provide needed public health action and leadership. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 21, 114–115 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/jes.2010.53
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