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UPDATE no.27 August 2002 INCHES
2002-The International Network on Children's Health, Environment and Safety
Dear member of INCHES,
In this update :
News items
Articles:
David Suzuki article
Conferences
INCHES funding
INCHES website
Any items related to children’s are welcome. Someone who wants to do something or knows someone who can do some voluntary work for the website can reply to the secretariat.
WSSD summit in Johannesburg
The Alliance To End Childhood Lead Poisoning will be using the homepage of the Global Lead Network website, www.globalleadnet.org, to provide regular updates on the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) proceedings in Johannesburg relevant to phase-out and prevention. Visit the GLN website daily during the WSSD (August 26 - September 4, 2002) to guarantee that you stay informed!
New postings include the draft NGO Commentary on the UN Health plenary Session by Maria Rapuano (Alliance Staff member) and a summary and participants list from the first two Alliance-sponsored events, the Global Lead Network meeting on August 25th and the Global NGO Forum event - International Networking and Advocacy: The Global Lead Network.
Two events at the Summit where INCHES will be participating:
An official Summit side event consisting of an interactive discussion with speakers on 'Health and the Environment in the 21st Century: Priorities and Action Strategies to Secure our Children's Future.' Topics to be addressed include linkages between health and the environment, the economic burden of ill-health related to environmental degradation and investing in children and the environment.
WHO: Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General, WHO; Ms Carol Bellamy, Executive Director, United Nation's Children Fund (UNICEF); Dr Klaus Töpfer, Executive Director, UNEP; Ministers of Health and the Environment; Physicians for Social Responsibility.
WHEN: 13:15-14:45; Friday, 30 August 2002;Ballroom 3, Sandton Convention Centre
A symposium on Health and Sustainable Development addressing topics such as investing in health for development, children's health and the environment and research partnerships. The first of the event's five sessions is a ministerial roundtable on the theme "Pushing back the frontiers of poverty." Four panel discussions will follow. Discussants will explore key policies and action strategies to address health and sustainable development issues. There will be an opportunity for the audience to ask questions.
WHO, South African Department of Health, South African Medical Research Council, United States National Institutes of Health, United States Agency for International Development, UNICEF, International Development Research Centre (Canada), International Society of Doctors for the Environment and Physicians for Social Responsibility and INCHES.
WHEN: 9:00-19:00; Saturday, 31 August 2002.;Ubuntu Village Conference Centre, Ubuntu Village, Wanderers
Complex, North Road, Illovo, Sandton, South Africa
Recently a lot of new material is up at www.OurStolenFuture.org, with the hope of making more accessible some of the recent arcane science relating environment and health
Among a number of additions:
The soy phytoestrogen genistein causes immune system problems in mice at levels comparable (indeed below) what infants are exposed to via soy-based formula
New research on links between household use of pesticides (including by professional applicators) and childhood leukemia
A study of the impacts of mixtures of chemicals, showing that mixtures of estrogen like compounds, each at very low levels, can have dramatic additive effects
A rejoinder to an astounding suggestion that DDT be used against west nile virus
An analysis of two recent studies of the causes of breast cancer and much more.
All these are accessible via headlines on the home page: www.OurStolenFuture.org
Articles
Look for interesting article by David Suzuki about saving the planet at:
http://network.idrc.ca/ev.php?URL_ID=6247&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201&reload=1030477375
And click on Suzuki.pdf
Previous announced conferences
3rd. European Conference on Pediatric Asthma ; October 28-29, 2002
The Conference will present the latest research findings and discuss their impact on the current understanding of asthma and its treatment. The meeting will consist of interactive teaching sessions with direct audience participation and plenary sessions. Contact Castle House Medical Conferences at +44 (0)1892-539606 or e-mail at asthma@castlehouse.co.uk Website: www.castlehouse.co.uk
The Eighth Annual Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Conference; December 11-13, 2002
Jointly sponsored by the University of South Florida Colleges of Medicine and Public Health, Center for Disease Control, and the Lawton and Rhea Chiles Center for Healthy Mothers and Babies. Abstracts deadline: May 3, 2002.
In Clearwater Beach, Florida, USA
Contact Erica Thomas by phone at (813)-974-6695, or by e-mail at contend@hsc.usf.edu.
Healthy Children Conference will take place on October 10-11, 2002 in Chernivtsy (Ukraine) at the Bucovinian Medical Academy Conference Center. (See Update no. 24)
Conference secretariat: Department of Developmental Pediatrics Bukovinian State Medical Academy; Post Box # 601 58010, vul. Grushevskogo, 1, Chernivtsi-10, Ukraine
E-mail - chernivtsi2002@yandex.ru, pediatr2@msa.cv.ua
ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT OF TURKEY organizes
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF CHILDREN’S HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT
October 18th – 20th, 2002, Istanbul, Turkey. See Update no. 24.
Website: www.cevrehekim.org.tr ; Contact: Dr. Günay Can: 90-212- 586 15 49 alpincan@yahoo.fr ; Dr. Ümit Sahin: 90-212- 244 56 68 umitsa@turk.net
The 1st Annual Conference of AIRNET
The first of three Annual Conferences of AIRNET.The conference will be held in the Brunei Gallery, SOAS in London, UK, December 11-12, 2002, immediately following the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine meeting to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Great London Smog event of December 1952. See update no.25. Contact Marjan Tewis (m.tewis@iras.uu.nl) or go the AIRNET website and follow directions there.
Did you locate a possible sponsor? Do you know a private sponsor? Can we mail some information on INCHES to one of your friends? Any donations (or suggestions of possible donors) are welcome at bank account nr.: 526292490 ABN AMRO (swiftcode ABNANL 2A), Dieren, Netherlands.
Last updated 10 September 2002
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