The 18th International Conference of the Pacific Basin Consortium for Environment and Health, “ Assessing and Mitigating Environmental Exposures in Early Life‘, will be held 16 – 19 September 2019 in Kyoto, Japan.
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After an outbreak of severe skin reactions, the nappy giant denies its products are at fault.
SDPI Publication
‘Ban or Restrict & Discourage Mercury Amalgam Use to Safeguard Children’s Health in Pakistan’
Dr. Mahmood A. Khwaja et al.
September, 2018, SDPI, Islamabad.
University of Queensland Higher Degree Research student, Johanna Sanchez will present at the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) annual meeting in New Orleans this month. Read a report on the meeting
Ms Sanchez is currently completing her PhD under the supervision of Professor Peter Sly at UQ’s Child Health Research Centre. She will be giving an oral presentation, ‘Household-level factors associated with childhood growth in Bangladesh: An analysis of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey, 2012-2013‘ as part of the the Global Health – Maternal, Child, and Neonatal Health session.
Ms Sanchez will also present a poster at the event titled ‘Campylobacter jejuni infection and household-level factors are associated with childhood growth in Mirpur, Bangladesh: An analysis of the MAL-ED Study’
The American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Annual Meeting will run from 28 October – 1 November 2018.
Greetings Team! We have a number of activities to report on. We continue to encourage all team members (researchers, partners, trainees, collaborators) to send in their activity updates, including photos and news items for subsequent updates.
Belpomme D, Hardell L, Belyaev I, Burgio E, Carpenter DO
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749118310157
Dr. Mahmood A. Khwaja and Anum Aslam
Sustainable Development Policy Institute Policy Brief # 60
16 April, 2018
An opportunity exists for graduate students to participate in an online/face-to-face course on Ecosystem Approaches to Health, offered by CoPEH Canada. The course is available starting in May. Further information is available in the flyer.
Participants can participate in the full program at UBC, UQAM, or UofGuelph, or participate only in the webinars (which are also available to international students).
