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Newsletter No 03 – November 2020
After the 16th World Congress on Public Health 2020
Read the abstracts of the 16th World Congress on Public Health 2020 Public Health for the future of humanity: analysis, advocacy and action.
Proceeding of our section’s workshops and skill building seminar:
Workshop: Climate change, energy issues and air pollution – as a triad of health priorities
Abstracts in EJPH
Workshop: SDGs in the focus of environmental and health issues
Abstracts in EJPH
Workshop: Healthier populations through addressing environmental health topics and the SDGs
Abstracts in EJPH
Skills building seminar: Design for mental health integration through built environment interventions
Abstracts in EJPH
Environment and Health (EUPHA ENV) – Statement
We have launched the EUPHA Section on Environment and Health (EUPHA ENV) – Statement during the 16th World Congress on Public Health 2020 conference. The statement is calling on the action to health risk reduction from a polluted environment and to put the environmental health protection and evidence-based disease prevention at the heart of the world’s and EU’s Covid-19 recovery process.
You can read the statement
https://db.eupha.org/repository/advocacy/EUPHA%20ENV%20STATEMENT%20final%20October%202020.pdf
Please consider supporting the statement as individual or institution via this link shorturl.at/oCLU3
Follow us on twitter
We are pleased to announce that our Section has a twitter account. Follow us @EUPHA_ENV
to be up-to-date with news and announcement of the Section.
Upcoming Conference
10th International Conference on Children’s Health and the Environment
http://inchesnetwork.net/conference-2020/
The scope of the conference will include but is not be limited to the following topics:
- Threats to children’s and adolescent’s environmental health – Focus on issues related to climate change.
- Challenges in children environmental health – Cohort studies, endocrine disorders, neurodevelopment disorders, urban development, air pollution, noise.
- Roadmap – biomonitoring, exposome, clinical tools, environmental health, healthy school environments.
Programme: http://inchesnetwork.net/programme-conference-2020/
The registration of the (accredited) conference can be found on:
https://www.activacongresos.com/forms/inches2020
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
Next Meeting of the Environment and Health Section is scheduled for 1st December 2020 at 17.15. via zoom link
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87163308637?pwd=NXhmUWxwS2ZOdm1qTnJ6VFFFS0tNUT09
Meeting ID: 871 6330 8637; Passcode: INCHES2020
We are inviting all members to participate. Welcome! Our host will be the 10th International Conference on Children’s Health and the Environment.
Information about call for Public Consultation:
European Commission launched a new Public Consultation called ‘EU Action Plan Towards a Zero Pollution Ambition for air, water and soil ‘. They are calling on all relevant stakeholders, including the health ones, to express their views by answering a questionnaire.
https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/12588-EU-Action-Plan-Towards-a-Zero-Pollution-Ambition-for-air-water-and-soil
Information: European Climate Pact
As part of the European Green Deal, the Commission will launch a European Climate Pact to give everyone a voice and space to design new climate actions, share information, launch grassroots activities and showcase solutions that others can follow. The European Climate Pact aims to engage citizens and communities in action for our climate and environment. The European Climate Pact aims to inform, inspire and foster cooperation between people and organisations ranging from national, regional and local authorities to businesses, unions, civil society organisations, educational institutions, research and innovation organisations, consumer groups and individuals.
https://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/eu-climate-action/pact_en
https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/12219-European-Climate-Pact
Information: World Sustainable Development Teach-In Day 2020 –
December 4
https://esssr.eu/events/world-sustainable-development-teach-in-day-series-2020-2030/
Academic staff from universities all over the world, are encouraged to hold a Teach-In-Day lecture on 4th December 2020, becoming a part of a global sustainability movement.
Stay healthy and environmentally friendly,
Dr Vlatka Matkovic, secretary Prof. dr Marija Jevtic, president
Dr Peter van den Hazel, vice president
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