INTARESE ISEE Pre-Conference Workshop
2 September 2006 - 2 September 2006
Austria
In examining the current methods of risk assessment in the field of environment and health, the workshop will aim to explore how these methods might usefully be improved by adopting a more integrated approach. Over the course of the day, members of the FP6 funded project, Integrated Assessment of Risks to Health from Environmental Stressors in Europe (INTARESE), will present a proposed integrated risk assessment framework and approach based on the early results of the project, exploring how this can be used to address different types of environmental health issue and discussing the methods, tools and research developments needed to apply the framework and approach. Presentations from EU policy makers, NGO and Industry representatives will offer a reflective and critical look at risk assessment methods from a user’s perspective.
AUDIENCE
National and EU policy makers, industry representatives, researchers and practitioners in the areas of health risk assessment, environmental epidemiology, exposure assessment and environmental health policy.
PROGRAMME
A detailed programme can be found at http://www.intarese.org(opens in new window) .
PARTICIPATION
Advanced registration is required for participation in this workshop. To register your interest to attend this workshop, http://www.intarese.org(opens in new window) or contact Samantha Udondem at s.udondem@imperial.ac.uk. Registration will close on 22 August 2006.INTARESE is a 5-year Integrated Project funded under the 6th Framework Programme of the European Union. It comprises of 33 partners from many of the leading research and user organisations in Europe. Expertise covers all the relevant areas of science, including environmental science, epidemiology, toxicology, information technology, geography and GIS, statistics and modelling. The project began in 2005 and will run to 2010.
The project is designed to make a major and practical contribution to the implementation of the European Action Plan on Environment and Health adopted in 2004. The key aim of INTARESE is to develop and test methods for integrated assessment of risks to health from environmental stressors, in order to improve decision-making by governments, industry and individuals, and to interlink policies more effectively. It is also clear that many of these issues are complex and inter-dependent: sometimes we might be able to take action to solve several problems at once; sometimes, in solving one problem we might make others worse. It is therefore crucial that we can evaluate the risks properly and prioritise our actions in a sensible way when faced with environmental complexity.
The project will address many stressors (air pollution, water pollution, climate change etc), settings (outdoor, domestic, occupational), and agents (chemicals, solid wastes, natural hazards, noise etc) and consider a wide range of different health outcomes. In the process, we will develop both methods and indicators for integrated risk assessment, try to address existing gaps in data and monitoring, develop a toolbox for integrated risk assessment, and use the methods to assess risks in a series of key policy areas: transport, housing, agricultural land use, water, chemicals in household products, waste and climate.
AUDIENCE
National and EU policy makers, industry representatives, researchers and practitioners in the areas of health risk assessment, environmental epidemiology, exposure assessment and environmental health policy.
PROGRAMME
A detailed programme can be found at http://www.intarese.org(opens in new window) .
PARTICIPATION
Advanced registration is required for participation in this workshop. To register your interest to attend this workshop, http://www.intarese.org(opens in new window) or contact Samantha Udondem at s.udondem@imperial.ac.uk. Registration will close on 22 August 2006.INTARESE is a 5-year Integrated Project funded under the 6th Framework Programme of the European Union. It comprises of 33 partners from many of the leading research and user organisations in Europe. Expertise covers all the relevant areas of science, including environmental science, epidemiology, toxicology, information technology, geography and GIS, statistics and modelling. The project began in 2005 and will run to 2010.
The project is designed to make a major and practical contribution to the implementation of the European Action Plan on Environment and Health adopted in 2004. The key aim of INTARESE is to develop and test methods for integrated assessment of risks to health from environmental stressors, in order to improve decision-making by governments, industry and individuals, and to interlink policies more effectively. It is also clear that many of these issues are complex and inter-dependent: sometimes we might be able to take action to solve several problems at once; sometimes, in solving one problem we might make others worse. It is therefore crucial that we can evaluate the risks properly and prioritise our actions in a sensible way when faced with environmental complexity.
The project will address many stressors (air pollution, water pollution, climate change etc), settings (outdoor, domestic, occupational), and agents (chemicals, solid wastes, natural hazards, noise etc) and consider a wide range of different health outcomes. In the process, we will develop both methods and indicators for integrated risk assessment, try to address existing gaps in data and monitoring, develop a toolbox for integrated risk assessment, and use the methods to assess risks in a series of key policy areas: transport, housing, agricultural land use, water, chemicals in household products, waste and climate.