What criteria were used to select board members?
A12: Board members were selected to fulfill the statutory requirements mandated by Congress in Section 601 of Public Law 108-183. They were also selected to provide expertise in historical dose reconstruction, radiation health matters, risk communication, radiation epidemiology, medicine, quality management, decision analysis and ethics, as well as a VA representative, a DTRA representative, three veterans, one of which is a member of an atomic veterans group to better enable the VBDR to represent and address veterans’ concerns.
