Mandate

The Health Professionals Task Force was originally created as a temporary advisory body whose mandate was continuously renewed. In October 2011, the group became a permanent body and was renamed the Health Professionals Advisory Board. At this time the mandate was revised to provide the Board with these responsibilities: 

1. Identify and alert the Commission to emerging human health issues associated with air or water quality in the transboundary region. 
2. Review human health research in areas important to transboundary health and provide knowledge synthesis and translation for use by IJC staff, Commissioners, health professionals and the general public.
3. Provide advice to the Commission on transboundary or Great Lakes human health concerns raised by the Commissioners. 
4. Provide the international watershed boards, when requested, with reports on the human health issues relevant to their regions. 
5. Provide expertise in human health to support the priorities work of the Great Lakes Water Quality Board, the Science Advisory Board and the Council of Great Lakes Research Managers. 
6. Collaborate with the Air Quality Board on specific projects that require human health input. 
7. Collaborate with health professional associations and medical educational institutions to promote human health educational projects that focus on prevention of health effects from environmental toxicants. 

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