Webinar:

From January 27th, 2026. (90 Minutes)

What You’ll Learn

  • Do Key Characteristics Approaches Improve Public Health Assessments for Chemicals?
  • Hypothesis Tests or Checklists?
  • Mechanism-oriented or Compilation of Individual Assays?
  • Validated?
  • Addressing Data Quality and Conflicting Data?
  • Distinguishing Endogenous Chemicals from Exogenous Toxicants?

Is an Intervention Needed?

What’s in the Webinar

Talk 1: The Key Characteristics Approach: Does it Improve and Hasten Public Health Assessments?

Duration: 15 Minutes – Sir Colin Berry, ML, PhD, DSc (Queen Mary University of London, UK)

Talk 2: Conceptual Failures and Deficiencies: Are They Fatal Flaws?

Duration: 15 Minutes – Christopher J. Borgert, PhD (Applied Pharmacology & Toxicology, Inc.)

Talk 3: Methodological Pitfalls: Are KCs Used as a Standalone Susceptible to Bias and Poor Predictive Accuracy?

Duration: 15 Minutes – Jessica Ryman, PhD, DABT (American Chemistry Council)

Talk 4: Misapplication – Fit for What Purposes?

Duration: 15 Minutes – James S. Bus, PhD, DABT, Fellow ATS (Exonent, Inc.)

Talk 5: Questions, Discussion, Debate

Duration: 20 minutes – Audience & Speakers

Sponsored by: Endocrine Policy Forum, ISRTP, SOT ELFSI SS