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Activity Number: 263 - The Role of Statistics in Science and Policy-Making for the Environmental Protection Agency
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 9, 2022 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistics and the Environment
Abstract #320577
Title: The Role of Statistics in Science and Policy-Making for the Environmental Protection Agency
Author(s): Lianne Sheppard* and Francesca Dominici* and Corwin Zigler* and Daniel O. Stram*
Companies: University of Washington and Harvard and University of Texas at Austin and Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
Keywords: Causality; Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee; Environmental Protection Agency; National Ambient Air Quality Standards; Science Advisory Board; National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine
Abstract:

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) relies on several external advisory committees, the two most influential of which are the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) and the Science Advisory Board (SAB). In addition, a committee formed by the National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) is currently preparing a report on Assessing Causality from a Multidisciplinary Evidence Base for National Ambient Air Quality Standards, sponsored by the EPA. Following a reorganization of EPA's advisory committees in 2021, statisticians and researchers who make extensive use of statistics are currently in key positions on each of these committees. This therefore seems an excellent opportunity to review the role that statistics and statisticians play in helping the EPA formulate scientific and policy decisions, and to suggest ways that statisticians could continue to play an active role in the future. The current panel is drawn from the members of these three committees, will review the functions of the committees themselves as well as giving their personal experiences working with the committees.


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