A Pacific Basin Consortium Symposium was held virtually at the VI Uruguayan Congress of Clinical and Environmental Toxicology and I International Convention of Environment and Children Health, on November 19th.
Prof Peter Sly showed recent evidence about the interactions between environmental exposures and COVID 19 in children health, and Dr. Stephania Cormier has addressed the pediatric approach of indoor pollution. Dr. Antonio Pascale was the chair of the Symposium.
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“POISONS IN OUR ENVIRONMENT” by Dr. Mahmood A. Khwaja, SDPI, Islamabad. Pakistan August 12, 2020
Book Introduction:
The book, “Poisons in Our Environment” is a “Research-based” publication having the data (including contaminants in different environment segments), of 38 sites in the country’s three provinces, collected by the SDPI team, not only under the Author’s supervision & guidance but also in his presence at each of the visited sites.
Daily Times, Islamabad, August 13, 2020
Book Launch: Speakers term hazardous industrial waste a critical issue to be addressed urgently
The Express Tribune, Islamabad, August 13, 2020
Industrial waste requires urgent attention
By: Our Correspondent
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2259294/industrial-waste-requires-urgent-attention
Volume 35 (2020): Issue 3 (Sep 2020): Special Issue: Assessing and mitigating environmental exposures in early life
https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/reveh/35/3/reveh.35.issue-3.xml
Kirk R. Smith, a pioneering researcher in the deadly risks of indoor air pollution in the developing world and an early voice raising concern about the health consequences of climate change, died June 15 at the age of 73 at his Berkeley home, following a stroke and subsequent cardiac arrest.
Follow up from the USA’s formal notification to the UN about withdrawing from WHO – forwarding a note from Georgetown University:
We would like to push this letter out far and wide now. It is online at: https://oneill.law.georgetown.edu/letter-to-congress-on-who-withdrawal-from-public-health-law-and-international-relations-leaders/
Estimates show indirect effects of #COVID19 pandemic on child & maternal health will be devastating https://hubs.ly/H0qrM7c0 @LancetGH
Now, @WHO-@UNICEF-Lancet #FutureChild Commissioners urge policy makers to put children at the heart of recovery efforts https://hubs.ly/H0s2pT40
ATS/ERS webinar on International Perspectives on Reopening the Pediatric Pulmonary Function Test Laboratory during COVID-19 Town Hall
The Pacific Basin Consortium for Environment and Health 