Editor'. Note: I have asked the originators ofthis comprehensive workshop, "The Pubic HeaIIh Response to Nasopharyngeal Radk.m Irradiation," which was convened In New Haven, Connecticut, on september 27-28, 1995, to Introduce this section of artie... baled on ....cted presentations from the workshop. Th/Ils only the second conference ever held to evaJuate thlslJealment practlcei the flnt meeting was convened nearty 60 years ago, In 1949. It Is only appropriate that we publish the p.....ntatlon. from the recent conference becau.. the procHdlngs 0' the original .ymposlum were published In a 1950 IIIue of our predecessor joumal, Tranlactlon. of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and otolaryngology.