Alliance for Risk Assessment

A Collaborative Approach for

Solving Public Health

Risk Assessment Issues

Description

The Alliance for Risk Assessment (ARA) is a collaboration of organizations that fosters the development of technical chemical risk assessment products and services, through a collaborative effort of specialists and organizations dedicated to protecting public health by improving the process and efficiency of risk assessment, and to increasing the capacity for developing risk values to meet growing demand. The ARA will coordinate with Federal and Sate Agencies whenever possible, to ensure the best use of available resources, and to avoid duplication of effort.

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Mission The Alliance for Risk Assessment (ARA) is a collaborative effort of organizations dedicated to supporting public health protection by improving the process and efficiency of risk assessment. Given a limited supply of time, resources, and expertise, public health protection is an effort that benefits from cooperation, organization, and prioritization. To this end, the ARA provides a framework for the advancement of risk assessment by: - implementing a multi-stakeholder decision-making process to deliver the best use of science with openness and transparency - enabling groups with limited resources access to toxicological and risk assessment expertise - facilitating the harmonization of risk assessment procedures across organizational lines - increasing the capacity for developing risk information by pooling technical and financial resources to ensure their most effective applications, by minimizing duplication of effort - promoting the use of risk assessment by fostering the exchange and dissemination of information. The goal of ARA is to develop risk assessments where there is a need -- for example where up-to-date assessments by major governmental agencies on the topic of interest do not exist or are not near finalization. This criterion is critical in selection of suitable projects.

Support for the ARA Our initial canvassing efforts have indicated significant support for the Alliance for Risk Assessment (ARA). We have discussed the goals and operations of the Alliance with over 150 individuals representing academic, environmental, industry, local, state, provincial, tribal, and national interests. Letters of support, project requests, and seed funding we have received clearly demonstrate an interested stakeholder population. Examples of feedback
ARA recent and upcoming presentations - RiskIE Poster at the annual Society for Risk Analysis conference in San Antonio. December 9-12, 2007 abstract poster - Presentation on Role of ARA in Global Information Sharing” at the Multi-State Working Group on Environmental Performance Annual Workshop held in Madison, WI June 20, 2007. presentation - Toxicology and Risk Assessment Conference. Cincinnati, OH. April 22- 25, 2007 poster presentation - Crop Life America. March 28, 2007. presentation - Regional Meeting of the MultiState Working Group. Nashville, TN. February 5-6, 2007 presentation - Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting. Baltimore, MD. December 3-6, 2006 - Crop Life America. November 16, 2006. presentation - Midwest States Risk Symposium. Indianapolis, IN. August 22, 2006