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LIVINGSTON COLLEGE.GRADUATE PROGRAM IN ANTHROPOLOGY Ke d i cal Sui ldin q Srookhaven National Laboratory Upton, New York 11973 I have been asked to chair a symposium for the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement o f Science(AAAS)in San Francisco durin s January of 1980, and I would like to cordially extend an invitation for you t o participate in that symposium. and since you have personally conductecl the radio foz ical surveys in the Ears halls, it seems only appropriate that you attend tho and lonz - term effects of radioactive fallout(especially in relation to the radio iodine s) on the Karshallese, and i n particular,the recent discovery of biochemical hypo thyroid is m without clinical evidence of the disease in the Eon ye lap population will also focus on the numerous problem you have encountered over the years concern in ? data collection in this unique and isolated population, as well as the problems associated with interpretation of the Marshall s data. Additionally,the panel will address the ways i n which the fallout has affected the ecolo5y and the socio - cultural domains of the Islanders. The title of the symposium i s "Ethno-Epidzmiology: The The purpose of the symposiurn will be to examine the short In addition to yourself,I have invited other experts in the field of radiation science to participate in the symposium, and they include : Dr. Frank von Hippe l,a physicist from the ge partment of Environmental Sciences at Princeton University : a chen istat the UC Lawrence Radiation Laboratory who s po cia liz es in nuclear radiation ; and Dr. Konrad Kot rad y from the University of Utah Xledical School who has firsthand experience with the Kiste from the University of Hawaii--who specializes in the
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Marshall Islands,to provide the syrnposiurn with back go und ethnographic information about 5iar shall ese society afid culture. symposium (which is scheduled for January 3-8, 1980), would you please considers end in5an alternate representative from stimulating, and it promises t o enhance our knowledge and understand in5of the continuing enigmas associated with nuclear ra3i ation and its manifestations. I n the event that you would be unable to attend the I think such a sym2osiurn would be extremely relevant and I do hope that you will be able to attend, and look forward to hearing from you: