QUESTION 1:

1. You are an epidemiologist employed by the NYSDH. It is May 1978, and you are asked to evaluate the Love Canal situation with respect to possible human health effects and the advisability of conducting an epidemiologic study. How will you proceed, and with what priorities? (Bear in mind that whatever you do will receive close and urgent public attention.)
   
2. What information would you like to have before you begin and why? How will you go about getting it?
   

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Answer to part b):