The Pacific Basin Consortium has convened a major international conference every eighteen months to two years. Principal conference objectives include technical transfer in the areas of environmental and human health to students and young professionals from rapidly-developing nations in the Pacific Rim, and encouragement of network development among academics and other professionals in environmental/human health and related areas of engineering.
The PBC plans a multi-year program of small focus meetings and international meetings on topical themes on an alternating schedule. Focus meetings will be held within Universities (or similar) over one day, with virtual attendance and participation facilitated. Full conferences will be held over 3 ½ days and include training workshops, plenary sessions, symposia, poster presentation sessions, and a dedicated unopposed session for student oral presentations.
Upcoming conferences & focus meetings
2023 Focus Meeting Pandemic planning – lessons from COVID-19
Louisiana State University USA
2024 International Conference Theme TBA
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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Past conferences & focus meetings
2022 Conference
Environmental exposures in a changing climate
29 Aug-1 Sept 2022, Jeju Island, South Korea
2021 Focus Meeting
Environmental impacts on infectious disease
September 16 2021, Brisbane, Australia
2019 Conference
The 18th International Conference of the Pacific Basin Consortium for Environment and Health, ” Assessing and Mitigating Environmental Exposures in Early Life’, was held 16 – 19 September 2019 in Kyoto, Japan.
- 2019 Program
- Meeting proceedings were published in Reviews on Environmental Health
2017 Conference
The 17th International Conference of the Pacific Basin Consortium for Environment and Health, hosted by the Public Health Foundation of India, ‘Environmental health and sustainable development’, was held in Delhi, India, from 14-17 November, 2017.
2015 Conference
The 16th International Conference of the Pacific Basin Consortium for Environment and Health, “Human and Environmental Health Risk Factors in the Pacific Basin” was held at the University of Indonesia, in Depok, West Java, Indonesia from 10-13 August, 2015.
- 2015 Program.
- The meeting proceedings were published in Reviews on Environmental Health.
- NIEHS and the World Health Organization (WHO) convened a workshop at the conference, focused on strategies to reduce exposure to e-waste.
2013 Conference
The 15th International Conference of the Pacific Basin Consortium for Environment and Health, “Environmental Exposure in Indigenous Communities” was held at the East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii from 24-27 September, 2013.
- 2013 Program
- The meeting proceedings were published in Reviews on Environmental Health.
2012 Conference
The 14th International Conference of the Pacific Basin Consortium for Environment and Health was held at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea, April 10-13, 2012. The conference, ‘The Geochemistry of Hazardous Substances – Human Health and Ecological Health Risk Factors’ was attended by over 120 participants representing more than 18 countries.
- 2012 Program
- The meeting proceedings were published in Reviews on Environmental Health.
2009 Conference
The 13th International Conference of the Pacific Basin Consortium for Environment and Health was held at the Perth Convention Exhibition Centre, Perth, Western Australia, Nov 20-22, 2009. The conference theme was ‘Environmental Exposures in the era of Climate Change’ .
- 2009 Program
- The meeting proceedings were published in Reviews on Environmental Health.
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