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Announcement for the 12^th International Conference on Children’s Health and the Environment

We are writing to request your participation at the 12^th International Conference on Children’s Health and the Environment, to be held in 2026 , in Cairo, Egypt. The registration will open in June or July 2025. The set-up of the conference will be like the previous conference in Uzbekistan. See more at 11th conference page.

Activities

INCHES is an organization which promotes children’s health. This requires protecting them from harmful environmental exposures.group.

in 2o22: On 6th and 19th of January 2022 we organised two webinars on lead and children’s health. In cooperation with WHO these webinars are a follow-up of lead week last November. There were several presentations and a general discussion on how to proceed from science to policy recommendations. What do the policy makers need to kow from science?

The 12^th International Conference on Children’s Health and the Environment

International Conference “The future of children in a world we cannot see yet”

We are writing to pre-announce the 12^th International Conference on Children’s Health and the Environment, to be held in sprintime 2026, in Cairo, Egypt.

It is an important opportunity to share experiences and scientific advances about children’s health and environment. Scientists, Policy Makers, Pediatricians, Nurses, Doctors, Educators, Urban planners, Interest groups, are all asked to contribute to this international conference. International accreditation points secured!

Organizers:

International Network for Children’s Health, Environment and Safety (INCHES)

International Society of Doctors for the Environment (ISDE)

UNICEF, UNFPA, WHO (to be invited and confirmed)

The conference has the following objectives:

to protect the world for future children
to provide an international forum for the latest research findings in children’s environmental health
to define the relationship between environmental contaminants and children’s health
to emphasize the importance of prenatal exposure to environmental factors on child and mother health
to develop a greater awareness among health professionals about the relationship between children’s health and the environment; and
to initiate and direct future research in the field of children’s environmental health.

INCHES has been active to organise webinars. Two webinars on lead and children’s health and one webinar on E-waste and children’s health. has been conducted. INCHES is open tomsupport organisations to organise any webinar or training on chidlren’s environmental heakth This can be done onine or in person, We prefere to conduct training together with local partners. We aim our trainings at a multidisciplinary audience from science, health, environment, risk assessment, social and many other domains. We celebrated very modestly the 10th Conference of INCHES since 1998. But besides celebrating we are also concerned about the state of the planet, of the health of children and the future of vulnerable groups. Therefore we did focus the lat few years on climate change and new emerging challenges in children’s environmental health. INCHES joined the COP26- 28 and collaborated with other groups of health professionals. We supported the efforts to get health into the reports of the COP’s but still too many delegations are not aware enough about all the health consequences of the climate change.

You may support our network and join us. Just give us your support to endorse our work.

Peter van den Hazel, chair of the INCHES Board .

INCHES will disseminate information and initiate research on the relationship between environmental factors and child health. Solid facts and good examples are made easily available on the Internet as the network develops. Parents, researchers and scientists, children’s organizations, children themselves are all potential partners with a stake in INCHES.
Children are more susceptible to most environmental hazards than previously thought. Children are in a dynamic state of growth, as many vital systems such as the nervous, immune, and respiratory systems are not fully developed at birth. Because children are still developing, exposure to environmental hazards may result in disruption of their normal development and may cause damage.

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