Poisonous Mushroom Outbreak: The State Health Department Perspective

Russ Bartlett is a Senior Environmental Scientist with the California Department of Public Health, where he leads the state’s Toxicological Outbreak Program. With extensive expertise in environmental health, risk assessment, and community outreach, Russ oversees investigations that protect vulnerable communities from exposure to environmental toxins and guides the state’s response to complex chemical incidents.

Russ holds a BS in Environmental Science from Virginia Tech and an MPH from San José State University, where he currently serves as an Environmental Health professor.

His presentation will address the state's role, how we track cases, what information we're gathering, how we use it, develop materials, perhaps lessons learned, and what we're planning for future prevention work.