The Interagency Coordinating Committee represents the lead agencies for the Study and oversees broad Study issues and ensures interagency collaboration. The representatives assure that at a high level, the mission and goals of the National Children’s Study are maintained over time and that they reflect the scientific priorities of the Study’s four agencies. The committee is made up of staff from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (including the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, of the National Institutes of Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Interagency Coordinating Committee Members
James Quackenboss, MS (Chair)
National Exposure Research Laboratory
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Amy Branum, PhD, MSPH
National Center for Health Statistics
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HHS
Sally Perreault Darney, PhD
Office of Research and Development
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Michael Firestone, PhD
Office of Children’s Health Protection
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Kimberly Gray, PhD
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
National Institutes of Health, HHS
Steven Hirschfeld, MD, PhD
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
National Institutes of Health, HHS
Danelle T. Lobdell, MS, PhD
National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Mary Ellen Mortensen, MD, MS
National Center for Environmental Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HHS
Sheila A. Newton, MS, PhD
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
National Institutes of Health, HHS
Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsopp, MD
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HHS