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Dear HIA section members,
The World Congress on Public Health ist fast approaching and will take place from 12th – 16th of October (www.wcph.com). We will not meet in person, but everything will be organized online. A novelty for all of us!
Many of you will have either presentations and or posters. In addition, the HIA section (co-)organizes several workshops:
Tue 13th 12:15-13:15
4.D. – Workshop: Health Impact assessment of chemical exposure: state of the art and challenges
Organized by: EUPHA-HIA, EC JRC, ibs.GRANADA (Spain), EASP (Spain)
Chairperson(s): Piedad Martin-Olmedo – Spain, Stephanie Bopp – Italy
Burden of cancer and human exposure to chemicals Raquel Carvalho – Italy
The challenge of combined exposure to multiple chemicals: scientific and regulatory approaches to protect human health Stephanie Bopp – Italy
Data for characterizing human exposure to chemicals and their contribution to human diseases: IPCHEM, HBM4EU Stephanie Bopp – Italy
Carcinogenicity assessment: technical and political challenges Federica Madia – Italy
Integrated approaches for the assessment of health impacts of environmental chemicals: our experience in the GraMo cohort study Juan Pedro Arrebola – Spain
Wed 14th. 9:45-10:45 (Room 4)
10.D. – Workshop: Health Impact assessment of climate change: monitoring and experiences
Organized by: EUPHA-HIA, EUPHA-PHMR, Public Health Wales.
Chairperson(s): Piedad Martin-Olmedo – Spain, Liz Green – United Kingdom
Assessing the public health impact of Climate Change in Wales. Liz Green – United Kingdom
Impacts of climate change on Public Health of the Mediterranean population Shlomit Paz – Israel
Understanding vulnerability in the context of climate change – a Health impact Assessment Framework. Fiona Haigh – Australia
Indicators to monitor policy progress in health adaptation to climate change: do they really do the job? Gerardo Sanchez Martinez – Denmark
Wed 14th. 19:45-20:45 (Room 4)
16.D. – Workshop: The Place Standard Tool around the world – experience on impact, equity aspects and transferability
Organized by: BZgA (Germany), Scottish Government, Public Health Scotland (UK), EUPHA-PHMR, EUPHA-HIA, JAHEE
Chairperson(s): Christina Plantz – Germany, Kat Hasler – United Kingdom
Creating healthy places with the Place Standard Tool – An Introduction. Kat Hasler – United Kingdom
The Leefplekmeter – Capacity-building for municipalities with the Dutch Place Standard Tool. Annelies Acda – Netherlands
Equity in local health: participatory tool to assess physical and socioeconomic settings in Spain. Ana Ocaña – Spain
The potential of the Place Standard Tool to foster healthy urban & rural development with an equity lens. Heike Köckler – Germany
Fri 16th. 15:45-16:45 (Room 4)
30.K. – Round table: What is and what is not HIA; expectations and realities
Organized by: EUPHA-HIA
Chairperson(s): Gabriel Gulis – Denmark, Jean Simos – Switzerland
Health impact assessment in Portugal. Teresa Almeida – Portugal
Opportunities and strategies for HIA implementation – from a public health perspective. Odile Mekel – EUPHA (HIA)
Building human capacities for HIA. Fiona Haigh – Australia
Opportunities for achieving the sustainable development goals through assessing health in environmental assessments. Julia Nowacki – Germany
HIA and the standard public health licensing control and supervision. Jana Loosova – Czechia
The Join the Network meeting of the HIA section will also be online. We will have section president election and discussion of future section activities. This network meeting will be held on Thursday 15th. 11:00-12:00 via Zoom. Access codes are only available in the online Congress environment, so only registered participants have access. So, don’t forget to register!
We are looking forward to ‘see’ you soon.
Best wishes and take care!
Odile Mekel & Piedad Martín-Olmedo presidents of the HIA section
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