The Pacific Basin Consortium for Environment and Health

Dr DM Lewis has recently been successful in applying to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) for funding in their Project Grant: Spring 2021 round.

Her application ‘Developing An Indigenous Value-Based Approach to Environmental Health Risk Assessment’ was deemed relevant to the Indigenous Health Research committed mandate, and was peer reviewed by the IHR committee.

The Government of Canada provides vital support to Canadian researchers through CIHR, spanning tightly linked pillars of health research, with the ultimate goal of improving health for all Canadians.

1 year since A future for the world’s children? @WHO-@UNICEF-@TheLancet Commission laid the foundations for a global movement toward better #child health hubs.li/H0GQMYz0 #FutureChild A new initiative to implement this report’s recommendations will be launched soon!

Commission report: https://www.thelancet.com/commissions/future-child

3 minute WHO HQ launch event summary video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tUjNFqXLgM&feature=youtu.be

“Between you and me” youth voices video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lHdlDiek7Q&list=PLoHXnVng2SVAq9n_-xlPGRBddfyuHlA_L&index=2&t=3s

WHO campaign page: https://www.who.int/initiatives/a-future-for-the-worlds-children

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. 

PBC have launched a new page for advertising jobs on the site.

Check it out here

Applications to advertise should be directed to the PBC Secretariat pbc@uq.edu.au

“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

https://dailytimes.com.pk/653462/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