CONFERENCE ON PARTICULATE AIR POLLUTION AND HUMAN HEALTH

描述（由申请人提供） 会议的总体目标是推动关于我们如何改善公共健康和福利以及保护生态系统免受空气中颗粒物损害的对话。为了实现这一目标，我们将汇集不同背景的个人，整合来自多个学科的信息。会议的具体目标包括：1.使北美、欧洲、亚洲和其他地方的机构的PM研究项目的结果能够及时传播给科学界、工业界和监管界，并使研究结果能够进行激烈的辩论; 2.为了强调北美主要项目的发现，（例如，联合S. PM健康中心，PM超级网站计划和臭氧PM中心），欧洲，亚洲，可能还有其他大陆; 3.为了展示国家评估，（e）例如，在一个实施例中，NARSTO北美PM评估和综合评论，加拿大评估等）; 4.评估国家PM战略的进展情况，（例如，5.通过在选定期刊的各种特刊上发表会议上提出的研究结果，大大增加同行评审的文献。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) The overall goal of the conference is to advance a dialog on how we can improve public health and welfare, as well as protect ecosystems, from damage caused by airborne particles. To achieve this goal, we will bring together individuals with different backgrounds to integrate information from several disciplines. Specific objectives of the conference include the following: 1. To enable the findings of PM research programs at institutions in North America, Europe, Asia, and elsewhere to be disseminated to the scientific, industrial, and regulatory communities in a timely manner, and to enable rigorous debate of the findings; 2. To highlight findings from major programs in North America, (e.g., the U. S. PM-Health Centers, PM Supersites Program, and Ozone-PM Centers), Europe, Asia, and possibly other continents; 3. To showcase national assessments, (e. g., the NARSTO North American PM Assessment and Integrated Critical Review, Canadian Assessment, and others); 4.To evaluate progress on national PM strategies, (e.g., the NRC Committee on Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter); 5.To add significantly to the peer-reviewed literature by publishing research results presented at the conference in a variety of special issues of selected journals.