We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.

As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management.

The liquid state of modernity is corrosive to continuity.

Effective leaders of change must serve equally as agents of change and protectors of continuity.

It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions.

There is no doubt that environmentally related diseases will continue to pose problems in the future.

The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.