Human health effects of coal seam gas activity – a study design framework

Acknowledging\ua0concern over\ua0potential health impacts of CSG activity, CSIRO’s Gas Industry Social and Environmental Research Alliance (GISERA) and the Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences(QAEHS)\ua0funded a study design project to investigate the influence of CSG activity in Australia on human health. The project is a review of the state of knowledge about health impacts of CSG activity, identification of gaps in the knowledge base, and development of a framework that can be used to design a study to address identified gaps. The\ua0framework proposed\ua0uses the\ua0tenets of\ua0HIA to identify potential health impacts from a CSG developmentbut is designed to generate\ua0new, foundational evidence on\ua0possible exposures to local residents from CSG activities and\ua0associated health impacts