3rd International Conference on Children's Health and the Environment

Introduction

The 3rd International Conference on Children's Health and the Environment comes at a time that we see an intensified attention for children in their environment. The environment is seen as a major contributor to children's health.

The first conference in Amsterdam in 1998 focused on the diversity of knowledge in the field of health and environment.Linked to the International conference of Paediatrics the theme was to get attention for the specific vulnerability of children. There were sessions that stressed the broad range of topics in children's environmental health from air pollution to children as victims of war.

The second conference in Washington in 2001 had as subtitle Global Forum. This conference stressed the fact that children's environmental health is a topic for all the regions of the world.A broad sponsored participation from many countries showed the importance Children's Environmental Health issues have around the globe.

The upcoming conference will incorporate the ongoing effort at different levels to come to children-based policies. How can we include children's health better in the decisions we are making? How can we provide future generations with a guarantee that their health will not suffer from the exposures we are causing in our productive world? The link between scientific knowledge and policy action will be the central theme of this 3rd International Conference on Children's Health and Environment.

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Conference Secretariat

Please direct any questions regarding the conference to the Conference Secretariat in the Netherlands:

The Scientific and Conference Secretariat ICCHE '04 Public Health Services Gelderland Midden PO Box 5364 6802 EJ Arnhem The Netherlands		Hosted by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Telephone number:	+ 31 26 377 37 80 or + 31 26 377 39 15
Fax number:	+ 31 26 377 39 92
E-mail address:	moniek.zuurbier@hvdgm.nl

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Scientific Programme

The titles with the 'Acrobat Reader' icon are available as a PDF-file, that was generated from the handouts of the original presentations

Wednesday 31st of March 2004
11.00 - 13.00	Registration
13.00 - 13.30 Room: Goldsmith	Welcome address Mr. Patermann, DG Environment, European Commission (invited) Peter van den Hazel, co-ordinator of INCHES and project leader of PINCHE Martha Berger, Environmental Protection Agency, USA Opening session moderated by Marie Louise Bistrup, INCHES
13.30 - 14.15 Room: Goldsmith	Review on state of the art in Children and Air pollution Tony Fletcher, PEHRU Public and Environmental Health Research Unit, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
14.15 - 15.00 Room: Goldsmith	Review on state of the art in Children and Carcinogens Lynn Goldman, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Medicine
15.00 - 15.30	Break
15.30 - 16.30 Room: Goldsmith	Symposium "Policy-science interface: what can we learn" (chair: Tony Fletcher, LSHTM) Irena Buka, University of Alberta, Canada: "Children's Health and the Environment. Program at the Commission for EnvironmentalCooperation of North America - Applying Science to Policy" Max K. Wallis, Cyfeillion y Ddaear / Wales Network "Air pollution, Asthma and the UK Science-Policy Interface" Judith Graham, Science and Research, American Chemistry Council "Children's Health Research Program of the American Chemistry Council" David Gee, European Environmental Agency, Denmark - "Late lessons from early warnings the precautionary principle 1896-2000"
16.30 - 17.30 Room: Goldsmith	Symposium "Children, their Risk perception and their Environmental space" (chair: Carolyn Stephens, LSHTM) Carolyn Stephens, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, United Kingdom - "Children, their Risk perception and their Environmental space - working with children in Popular Epidemiology" Hanne Wilhjelm, Oslo School of Architecture, Norway - "Reality with several understandings: Children's outdoor environment" Barry Percy-Smith, The SOLAR Action Research Centre, University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom - "Creating healthy environments with children: reflections on children’s perceptions and the challenges for research and policy" Josine van den Bogaard, Municipal Health Services Rotterdam, the Netherlands - "Children and Urban Space"
17.30 - 19.00 Room: M2	Closed session PINCHE Work-package 5: Socio-economic impact In this session the proceedings of WP5 will be presented, and the workplan for the coming period will be discussed. Participants of the conference interested in the topic of the impact of Socio-economic factors on Children's Environmental Health can join this meeting.
Thursday 1st of April 2004
08.30 - 09.15 Room: Goldsmith	Review on state of the art in Children and Noise Stephen Stansfeld, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, United Kingdom - "Review on state of the art"
09.15 - 10.00 Room: Goldsmith	Review on state of the art in children and neurotoxicants Janna Koppe, Em. Prof. Neonatology, University of Amsterdam, and Ecobaby Foundation, The Netherlands - "Environmental factors and Neurodevelopmental disorders"
10.00 - 10.30	Break
10.30 - 11.30 Room: Goldsmith	Symposium "Indicators" (chair: Peter Illig, ISDE) Annie Bérubé, Environment Canada: "Indicators of children's Health and the Environment - A Canadian Perspective" Marie Becker (presented by Katarina Victorin), The National Board of Health and Welfare, Sweden "National Environmental Health study of Swedish children" Hamed Bakir, WHO Regional Centre for Environmental Health Activities (CEHA), Jordan "The Global Initiative on Children's Environmental Health" David Briggs, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, United Kingdom - "Making indicators that can improve children's environmental health"
10.30 - 11.30 Room: Bennet	Symposium "Children and childhood cancer" (chair: Lorenzo Tomatis, Scientific Committee ISDE) Lorenzo Tomatis, Scientific commitee ISDE: "Prenatal and preconception exposure to carcinogens" Chris Busby, University of Liverpool And Green Audit. United Kingdom "Genetic and somatic effects in children following internal exposure to man-made radioactive substances" Roberta de Angelis, National Institute of Health, Italy: "Europreval study"
10.30 - 11.30 Room: Lucas	Symposium "Health Care's role in creating Healthy Environments" (chair: Karolina Ruzickova) Mark Rossi, Health Care Without Harm "Environmental Risks for Children in Hospitals and Opportunities for Prevention" Vyvyan Howard, University of Liverpool and Magnus Hedenmark, Health Care Without Harm Europe "Dioxins and Children's Health: Health Care's Roles and Responsibilities in Creating and Preventing Dioxins" Lilian Corra, Argentinean Society of Doctors for the Environment "Engaging Pediatricians in Children's Environmental Health: Successes in Latin America"
11.30 - 12.30 Room: Goldsmith	Symposium "Neurobehavioural disorders and endocrine disruptors in children" (chair: Janna Koppe, Ecobaby Foundation) Gerhard Winneke, University of Düsseldorf, Germany: "Does endocrine dysfunction explain neurobehavioral adversity in environmentally exposed children?" Terri Damstra, WHO (PICS/IRRU), USA - "Potential Health Effects of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in Children" Dirk Pallapies, Occupational Medical and Health Protection Department, BASF AG, Germany: "Endocrine active substances (EASs) - potential effects on children's health?"
11.30 - 12.30 Room: Bennet	Symposium "Water and other issues" (chair: Lilian Corra) Sheridan Bartlett, Children's Environments Research Group, City University of New York, and International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), "London: Water and sanitation: the implications for children" Timothy J. Gibb, Department of Entomology, Purdue University, USA: "Implementing Safe and Effective Practices for Pesticide Use in Public Schools in the United States" Junko Kawahara, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo: "Young children's exposures to organophosporus pesticides in an agricultural area in Japan" R. Sukanya, Thanal Conservation Action and Information Network, Kerala, India: "Saving children from pesticide exposure: lessons from the endosulfan tragedy in India"
12.30 - 13.30	Lunch
	Open workgroup meetings of PINCHE network
13.00 - 14.30	Poster session-presentations - Group 1
13.30 - 15.30 Room: Goldsmith	PINCHE meeting on Theme Air pollution Including presentation from Sam Pattenden on EU project "PATY - (Pollution And The Young)"
13.30 - 15.30 Room: Bennet	PINCHE meeting on Theme Neurotoxicants
15.30- 15.45	Break
15.45 - 17.45 Room: Goldsmith	PINCHE meeting on Theme Carcinogens
15.45 - 17.45 Room: Bennet	PINCHE meeting on Theme Noise
Thursday night: 20.00 - ?	Conference Dinner in Restaurant The People's Palace overlooking the river Thames
Friday 2nd of April 2004
08.30 - 09.00 Room: Goldsmith	General Introduction activities from INCHES Global activities , Peter van den Hazel, co-ordinator INCHES, Netherlands Activities in Europe, Marie Louise Bistrup, National Institute of Public Health, Denmark Activities in Germany , Erik Petersen (presented by Rainer Guettler), Oekologischer Aertzebund, Germany Activities in Italy and about RISBA , Roberto Romizi, Scientific Office ISDE Italy Activities in Latin America , Lilian Corra, AAMMA, Argentina Activities in the Russian Federation , Maria Cherkosova, Centre for Independent Ecological Programs, Russia
09.00 - 10.00 Room: Goldsmith	Symposium "Priorities in children's environment and health" (chair: David Gee) Yasmin von Schirnding and Bruce Gordon, World Health Organisation, Switzerland: "Healthy Environments for Children Alliance - HECA: Overview and Background" Peter van den Hazel, INCHES: "Childrens Environmental Health in HECA: a Global NGO Perspective" Leda Nemer, WHO European Centre for Environment and Health, Italy: "Implementing the Children's Environmental Health Action Plan in Europe, with reference to the role of NGOs: a Regional Perspective" Lilian Corra, Argentinean Society of Doctors for the Environment: "Addressing CEH issues in Latin America, and the Role of Paediatricians: A Country and Regional Perspective" Ondine S. von Ehrenstein, University of California, Berkeley, USA: "CEH Research and Training: the Role of Academia in HEC" Peter Illig, ISDE: "The Role of Public-Private Partnerships in Addressing CEH, and its relevance to HECA"
09.00 - 10.00 Room: Bennet	Symposium "Open Presentations" (chair: Rainer Guettler, German Network on children's Health and Environment) Lisbeth E. Knudsen, University of Copenhagen: "EU-project ChildrenGenoNetwork" Stelios. M. Piperakis, DNA Repair Laboratory, Institute of Biology, NCSR "Democritos", Greece: "Comparison of DNA sensitivity, repair efficiency, apoptosis and necrosis between lymphocytes from child and adult populations exposed to external agents" Raul A. Montenegro, National University of Cordoba and President of FUNAM,Argentina: "The "Cocktail of Pollutants Principle" could help explaining of complex health effects over large exposed populations" Roberto Ronchetti, Cattedra di Pediatria, university of Rome, Italy: "Environmental causes of allergy-atopy in children include procedures used in agroalimentary industrial processes"
09.00 - 10.00 Room: Lucas	Symposium "Children and Noise" (chair: Wolfgang Babisch, Federal Agency, Germany) Charlotte Clark, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, United Kingdom: "RANCH study" Staffan Hygge, Laboratory of Applied Psychology, Centre for Built Environment, University of Gävle, Sweden: "Possible policy implications of noise research on children" Irene van Kamp, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, The Netherlands: "Effects of Aircraft noise and Road Traffic noise on annoyance, sleep quality and perceived health in children; the RANCH study"
10.00 - 10.30	Break
10.30 - 12.30 (Double session!) Room: Goldsmith	Workshop "Capacity building in children's environment and health" (moderator: Terri Damstra, World Health Organisation) Jenny Pronczuk, World Health Organisation, Switzerland: "Training of Health care providers" Peter Ohnsorge, DBU, Germany: "A common European Education in Environmental Medicine" Stephan Boese-O'Reilly/Thomas Lob-Corzilius, German Network on Children's Environment and Health: "Upgrading paediatric nurses in preventive and environmental Health" Kathy Shea, Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina, USA: "Creating an 'Environmental Safety Net' for Children - Successful Capacity Building" Ondine von Ehrenstein, University of Berkeley, California, USA: "Arsenic problems in children in India and Bangla Desh"
10.30 - 11.30 Room: Bennet	Symposium "Open presentations - 2" (chair: Jonathan Grigg, University of Leicester) Gail Charnley, Health Risk Strategies, Washington D.C., USA: "Science, Policy, and a New Children's Environmental Health Strategy" Alla Dudnikova, Legal group of the Euro-Asian chapter of International Network on Children's Health, Environment and Safety (INCHES): "Review of Current Situation with Defence of Children's Rights to Healthy Environment in Russia"and Their Children" Irma Makalinao, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of the Philippines
11.30 - 12.30 Room: Bennet	Symposium "New research on air pollution and implications policy" (chair: Tony Myres, Canada) Sarah McDonald, He Kainga Oranga Research Group, Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Science, University of Otago, New Zealand: "The Impact of Insulating Homes on the Respiratory and General Health of Children" Jonathan Grigg, Leicester Children's Asthma Centre, University of Leicester, United Kingdom: "Assessing individual exposure to particles" Vincent Nedellec, Conseils, Santé Environnement, France: "Transport Related Health Impacts, Costs and Benefits with a Particular Focus on Children" Álvaro Osornio, Instituto Nacional de Cancerología, Mexico: "Particulate Matter Air Pollution. Does Composition Count?"
11.30 - 12.30 Room: Lucas	Symposium "Children and safety and children's occupational exposure" (chair: Paul Saoke, Kenya/Inci Sieber, German Network on children's health and environment) Joanne Vincenten, Director European Child Safety Alliance, The Netherlands: "Policy driven actions to reduce childhood injuries in Europe" Alessio Pitidis, Superior Health Institute, Italy Lillian Corra, AAMMA, Argentina
12.30 - 13.30	Lunch
13.00 - 14.30	Poster session-presentation - Group 2
13.30 - 14.30 Room: Goldsmith	Symposium "Children and indoor air exposure": Environmental tobacco smoke, biomass, indoor allergies (chair: Lorenzo Tomatis, Scientific Committee ISDE) Edith Rameckers, EFA, The Netherlands: "Indoor air pollution and schools" H. Paramesh, Lakeside Medical Center and Hospital: "Children And Indoor Air Exposure" Wojtek Hanke, Nofer Institute for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Poland: "Prenatal and postnatal environmental tobacco smoke exposure and children health" Julie Gillespie, Wellington Asthma Research Group, Department of Medicine,Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Otago University, New Zealand: "Endotoxin: a link between the indoor environment and early childhood wheezing"
13.30 - 14.30 Room: Bennet	Symposium "Heavy metals" (chair: Peter Ohnsorge, German Network on children's environmental health, Germany) Stephan Boese-O'Reilly, Institute of Forensic Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Germany: "Mercury as a health hazard for children in gold mining areas in Indonesia and Tanzania" Ondine von Ehrenstein, University of Berkeley: "Arsenic problems in children in India and Bangla Desh" Tina Kold Jensen, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark: "Emerging scientific evidence and controversy about low-level mercury toxicity and policy implications"
13.30 - 14.30 Room: Lucas	Symposium "Maternal and paternal exposures" (chair: Margaret Saunders, University of Bristol) Alex Burdorf, Department of Andrology and Public Health, University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands "A case-control study on cryptorchidism and hypospadias in newborn boys: are endocrine disrupters involved?" Pau-Chung Chen, Institute of Occupational Medicine and Industrial Hygiene, National Taiwan University College of Public Health, Taiwan: "The effect of maternal exposure to outdoor air pollution during the first trimester of pregnancy on intrauterine growth retardation in Taiwan" Margaret Saunders, University of Bristol, UK: "In utero exposure to environmental chemicals and the risk to the unborn child" Hisham H. Jamal, Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine, Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia "A Study of Lead Exposure and Its Health Effects Among Female Electronic Workers"
14.30 - 15.30 Room: Goldsmith	Symposium "Environmental health regulation for children" (chair: ) Nicki Sims-Jones, Health Canada: "Canadian Regulatory Approaches to Protecting Children from Environmental Hazards" Gernot Klotz, Bayer: "Environmental health regulation for children in a global perspective" Tony Myres, Environmental Contaminants Bureau, Health Canada: "Regulatory Science and Reducing the Health Risk of Environmental Chemicals in Canada"
14.30 - 15.30 Room: Bennet	Symposium "Environmental tobacco smoke" (chair: Wojtek Hanke, Nofer Institute for Occupational and Environmental Medicine) Lesley Rushton, MRC Institute for Environment and Health, UK: "Investigating the Barriers to reducing the exposure of infants and young children to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) in the home" Kinga Polanska, Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Poland: "Post-delivery relapse into smoking among women covered by smoking cessation intervention during pregnancy" Thomas Armstrong, ExxonMobil Biomedical Sciences, USA: "Assessing Childrens'Exposure methods and data for a tiered approach" Hanns Moshammer, Institute for Environmental Health, Medical University of Vienna: "Environmental Tobacco Smoke: toxicological and psycho-social considerations"
14.30 - 15.30 Room: Lucas	Symposium "Socio-economic factors and community based assessment" (chair: Gabriele Bolte, University of Ulm) Gabriele Bolte, Department of Epidemiology, University of Ulm, Germany: "Socioeconomic factors in studies of children's environmental health: Examples for their consideration and impact in EU-funded research and from a systematic literature review" Raul A. Montenegro, National University of Cordoba and President of FUNAM, Argentina: "Latin American Experiences in community based Assessments. Joint works with Ituzaingo Anexo Neighbours in Cordoba" Gretchen Latowsky, JSI Center For Environmental Health Studies, USA: "Casa de Salud: A Model for Engaging Community Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA"
15.30 - 16.00	Break
16.00 - 17.00 Room: Goldsmith	Conclusions and Future activities Ype Schat, Director Public Health Services Gelderland Midden Irma Makalinao, University of the Philippines Lilian Corra, Argentinean Society of Doctors for the Environment Peter van den Hazel, INCHES and PINCHE
17.00 - 17.15 Room: Goldsmith	Closing session Peter van den Hazel, INCHES and PINCHE Presentation of future International Conference on children's health and environment

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