On this page you will find information and links to international conferences related to medical geology and environmental medicine. Please inform me when you get to know of any conferences that can be added here.
2008
International Workshop of Experts on
Health and Well-being in Africa
Pretoria, South Africa 25 – 27 August 2008
Organized by
International Council for Science, Regional Office for Africa (ICSU ROA)
in collaboration with
National Research Foundation (NRF), South Africa
The ICSU Regional Office for Africa, in collaboration with the National Research Foundation (NRF), South Africa, is organizing an international workshop of experts on Health and Human Well-being in sub-Saharan Africa.
Date and venue
The workshop will take place on 23 – 25 July 2008 at Roode Vallei Country Lodge (www.roodvallei.co.za) in Pretoria, South Africa.
Workshop Objectives
To drive the implementation of the ICSU ROA science plan on Health and Human Well-being;
To establish networks and working groups of researchers and their respective institutions, to address major challenges on health and human well-being in Africa; and
To strengthen existing networks of individuals, groups, organizations and institutions working on issues related to human health and well-being, including food and nutrition security, water and sanitation, and sustainable livelihood in general.
Pakistan Japan Joint Seminar
ARSENIC IN PAKISTAN: LEARNING FROM ASIAN EXPERIENCES
Venue: Department of Social Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Date: September 05, 2008
http://www.udercjap an.com/seminars. html
Background:
Pakistan-Japan Joint Seminar is the continuity of series of seminars being conducted both in Lahore and Tokyo to address the health and health risks of arsenic contamination in Pakistan. This is the 5th joint seminar, the second to be held in Japan.
Collaboration:
· Dr. Sakano-Lab, Department of Social Engineering Tokyo
Institute of Technology
· Dr. Morishita-Lab, Department of Policy Studies, Aichi
Gakuin University;
· Dr. Komai Lab, Institute of Geo Resources and Environment
(GREEN), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science
and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan.
· Dr. Nirei Hisashi, Emeritus Prof. Ibaraki University,
Chairperson, Geo Pollution Control Agency (NPO), Japan.
· Prof. Watanabe, Department of Social Engineering, Tokyo
Institute of Technology, Japan
· Dr. Shinji Tajima, International Center for Literacy and
Culture (ICLC-Tokyo)
· Dr. Kausar Jamal Cheema, Dean Faculty of Natural Sciences,
Head of Environmental Science Department, Lahore College for
Women University (LCWU), Lahore, Pakistan
· Urban Development and Environmental Research Center (UDERC)
· BUNYAD Foundation, Pakistan
. Pakistan Chamber of Commerce Japan (Regd.) [ Japan]
. Century Tokyo Corporation, Japan
. FUJITECH, Lahore, Pakistan
Registration Fee:
International Participants: US$ 200 (Payable only after registration is confirmed by UDERC)
Japanese participants: please contact
Seminar Coordinator
Dr. M. Atiq ur Rahman
Assistant Professor, Environmental Science Department, Lahore College for Women University (LCWU); Executive Director, Urban Development and Environmental Research Center (UDERC)
Email: atiq@uderc.com ; udercjapan@yahoo. com
ONLINE REGISTRATION
http://www.udercjap an.com/registrat ionform.html
THE 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARSENIC RESEARCH
SEPTEMBER 23–26, 2008.
SHENYANG, CHINA
The main themes for the conference will include:
1. Epidemiology
2. Toxicokinetics and metabolism
3. Geochemistry and pollution
4. Prevention and treatment
5. Health effects
6. Removal methods and technology
Conference Sponsors:
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, USA
National Science Foundation of China
World Health Organization
United Nations Children’s Fund
University of Arizona, USA
National Cancer Institute, USA
Kitasato University, Japan
International Environmental Research Center, South Korea
Metal Specialty Section, Society of Toxicology, USA
ChinaMedicalUniversityChina
International Medical Geology Assciation, IMGA
2008 JOINT ANNUAL MEETING GSA, SSSA, ASA, CSSA, GCAGSA, HOUSTON, TEXAS, USA
Celebrating the International Year of Planet Earth
GSA TOPICAL SESSION
T149. Groundwater Arsenic: A Global Environmental Health Problem and Sustainable Mitigation
Sponsored by: GSA Hydrogeology Division; GSA Geology and Society Divison; GSA Geology and Health Division; GSA International Division; Geochemical Society; International Association of Hydrogeologists; International Society of Groundwater Sustainable Development
Prosun Bhattacharya, Abhijit Mukherjee, D. Kirk Nordstrom, Jochen Bundschuh, M. Alauddin
GSA Technical Sessions - Abstract submission deadline: 3 June, 2008
This session serves as a platform for exchange of scientific knowledge and ideas to identify
future research targets of research needed to improve the understanding of the occurrence and
mobility of arsenic in groundwater, to develop, evaluate, select and apply suitable remediation
methods according to ambient hydrogeological and hydrogeochemical properties of the aquifer,
and the social conditions and the economic situation of the arsenic-affected population and water
resource management. The topical session (oral and poster) titled “Groundwater Arsenic: A
global environmental health problem and sustainable mitigation” will focus on 1) kinetics of
arsenic in groundwater and sedimentary environments. 2) arsenic occurrence and behavior in
natural and anthropogenic biogeochemical cycles 3) fate of arsenic in agricultural and food
chains 4) socio-economic impacts of arsenic affect groundwater on population 5) water resource
management and remediation strategies of arsenic-affected areas 6) arsenic epidemiology.
The upcoming Geological Society of America meeting in Houston, Texas will have a technical session on Geology and Health Issues in Texas, Mexico, and Beyond .
The deadline for submitting abstracts is June 3 . Please consider submitting an abstract and joining us in Houston, October 5-9. For additional information contact Bob Finkelman (bobf@utdallas.edu).
Jeff Post and Peter Heaney (heaney@geosc.psu.edu) are organizing the following Topical Session at the GSA Annual meeting:
T93: Environmental Mineralogy
Minerals can be the source of toxic metals and acid wastes, but they also can act as natural cleansers. This session will explore mineral structures, behaviors, and fluid interactions in the context of environmentally important soil reactions. Invited speakers include Elizabeth Johnson (James Madison University), Christopher Kim (Chapman University), and Huifang Xu (U Wisconsin-Madison).
This GSA meeting is held jointly with the Soils Science Society of America and 4 other organizations, and we expect it to be an unusual opportunity for low-temperature mineralogists and geochemists with different backgrounds to share insights and expertise. The meeting will be held from Oct. 5 to 9 in Houston.
The abstract deadline is early this year -- June 3, 2008. Information about the meeting can be found at the following web site:
https://www.acsmeetings.org/
2008 Joint Annual Conference in the Pasadena Convention Center, Pasadena, California USA
Theme: Exposure and Health in a Global Environment
The conference will include plenary sessions, symposia, and contributed abstract sessions with dedicated poster viewing sessions. There will be satellite meetings, workshops, and morning training sessions.
For more information visit http://secure.awma.org/events/isee-isea/
• Rapid industrialization and urban growth
• Global transport of pollution
• Worldwide energy demands
• Changes in manufacturing, transportation, agriculture and land use
• Epidemiological studies of population health disparities
• Differential impacts of environmental hazards and risks in developing and industrial societies
• Changing patterns of exposures and diseases
• Susceptibilities of different populations to environmentally-linked diseases
• Role of international and multi-national population studies on environmental exposures and health
The conference will include daily plenary sessions with keynote lecturers and a variety of symposia and technical sessions for more in-depth and interactive discussion on selected topics.
3rd International Symposium on Trace Elements in the Food Chain –
Deficiency or Excess of Trace Elements in the Environment as a Risk of Health (TEFC2009)
Budapest, Hungary,
21-23 May 2009.
To be organized by the Working Committee on Trace Elements of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), as well as the Institute of Materials and Environmental Chemistry of the HAS, in
The purpose of the Symposium is to congregate experts interested in the investigation of trace elements of the food chain, involving analytical, metabolic, toxicological aspects, focussing on the environmental and health concerns.
Special attention will be given to the deficiency or excess in the environment as a risk of health, the speciation and transfer of trace elements in the food chain, to the factors influencing these processes.
General Subject Areas, Topics
Scientific sessions are expected to cover the following general subject areas:
Methodical aspects of trace element research. Speciation.
Nanotechnology for trace element research.
Environmental aspects of trace elements concerning air, water, soil, microorganisms and plants.
Trace element status and risk of health in plants, animals and human.
Food and feed safety in human and animal nutrition.
Other topics:
Possibilities and difficulties in the analysis of trace elements.
Trace elements as air pollutants.
Sewage sludges as trace element sources.
Bioavailability and mobility of trace elements in soils.
Remediation of trace element contaminated soils.
Bioaccumulation and translocation of trace elements in plants.
Trace elements in medicinal plants.
Trace element deficiency: genetic and/or dietary background.
Biological and toxicological importance of trace elements.
Targets of heavy metal toxicity.
Neurotoxic effects of trace element deficiency or excess.
Micronutrients and cardiovascular diseases.
Deficiency – excess – metabolic disorders.
Deficiency – excess – antioxidant status.
How many is insufficient, optimal, excess?
Trace elements and oxidative stress.
Trace elements as environmental pollutants.
Trace element supplementation and food safety in public administration.
Venue
Danubius Hotel Gellert Budapest. It is located in a picturesque environment at the foot of Gellért Hill, on the bank of the Danube, at the Szabadság-híd (Liberty Bridge) ***szerintem földrajzi neveket kár lefordítani, Sherlock Holmes se a Pék utcában lakott…***.
http://www.chemres.hu/tefc2009
tefc2009@chemres.hu
3RD HEMISPHERIC CONFERENCE ON MEDICAL GEOLOGY
MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY
October 12-17, 2009
Dear Colleagues and Friends on Medical Geology:
On behalf of the International Medical Geology Association (IMGA), the Uruguayan Society of Toxicology and Ecotoxicology and the Faculty of Chemistry from the Universidad de la Republica de Uruaguay, we are pleased to invite you to participate in the 3rd Hemispheric Conference on Medical Geology, which will be held the week of October 12-17, 2009 in Montevideo, Uruguay.
The Hemispheric Conference on Medical Geology meeting was started as a contribution to the rapidly expanding and growing field of Medical Geology. Medical geology has numerous applications to the resolution of local, regional and global health issues. The aim of this 3rd Hemispheric Conference on Medical Geology (3rd HCMedGeo) is to promote interdisciplinary discussions, international scientific collaborations and to build up new personal contacts between medical geology researchers by bringing together scientists from South America, Central and North America, Canada, and the Caribbean Basin to share the most recent advances and latest information on Medical Geology research with particular emphasis on environmental and health problems afflicting this part of the globe.
The 1st HCMedGeo was organized in Puerto Rico with participation from over 50 delegates and with representation from each of the regions. The 2nd HCMedGeo was recently organized in Atibaia, Brazil with over 150 participants bringing together a wide range of disciplines in geosciences and biomedical research with particular interest on Medical Geology.
The Scientific Program for the 3rd HCMedGeo will be composed of plenary lectures, short courses, oral and poster presentations covering a diverse and multidisciplinary research agenda with topics including: soils, water, air and public health; environmental epidemiology, environmental monitoring, and disease surveillance; emerging and re-merging diseases and medical geology; topical diseases and their impact on human and animal health; geochemical mapping and human health databases; risk analysis and risk communication/management in medical geology; veterinary medicine and medical geology; environmental medicine, toxicology and environmental geochemistry; environmental and forensic geology; analytical toxicology (e.g., trace element speciation) and geochemical tools in medical geology; trace elements, metals and metalloids and nutrition; environmental bioremediation of contaminated sites.
On behalf of the organizers and sponsors for the 3rd HCMedGeo we look forward to welcome you to Montevideo, and to share with you what promise to be a highly scientifically stimulating and memorable event for the Americas.
Sincerely,
Prof. Dr. Nelly Manay Dr. Jose Centeno
General Chairwoman Chairman International Scientific Committee
3rd Hemispheric Conference on Medical Geology
VIII INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY
October 18 to 23, 2009,
Ouro Preto/MG,
Brasil
http://www.12cbgq.ufop.br/12cbgq/principaleng.htm
SEGH 2010: 27th European Conference, Galway, Ireland, Easter 2010
The 27th SEGH (Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health, www.segh.net) European Conference will be held in Galway, Ireland during Easter 2010. This conference provides an internationally leading forum for scientists, consultants, and public officers working in the multi-disciplinary areas of environment and health. Participants of the conference represent expertise in a diverse range of scientific fields (such as biology, engineering, geology, hydrology, epidemiology, chemistry, medicine, nutrition, and toxicology), as well as regulatory and industrial communities.
Galway, located in the west of Ireland, is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Europe and attracts more than 1 million international tourists annually. It is easily accessible, with frequent direct flights to and from several cities in the UK. There are also frequent air, train and bus connections with Dublin.
The conference venue is the campus of NUI Galway, within walking distance of Galway’s city centre. The conference is co-organized by National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway), Environmental Change Institute (ECI) and Health Service Executive (HSE) West, Ireland.
http://www.nuigalway.ie/segh2010/