EPSRC-funded PhD studentship on "Human exposurei to indoor air pollution"

Public & Environmental Health Research Unit, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, University of London, U.K.

INTARESE and HEIMTSA will present a joint symposium entitled 'HEIMTSA-INTARESE – A European center stage for developing integrated assessmenti methodologies for environmental health policy' at the ISEE/ISEA Conference (12 -16 Ocotber 2008) in Pasadena (for more information on the conference please visit http://secure.awma.org/events/isee-isea/).

Symposium outline

The 7th International Conference on Air Quality - Science and Application (formerly Urban Air Quality Conference) will take place in Istanbul from the 24-27 March 2009, http://www.airqualityconference.org/. This is a very well established conference covering all aspects of air quality, including impacts on human health, ecosystems and built environment. Selected papers from previous conferences have been published in special issues of high impact factor journals (such as Atmospheric Environment).

The online registeration is now open for INTARESE's annual conference 2008 in Bonn, Germany. To find out more about the conference and to register online click here. 

The technical workshop organised by the EC on 'Connectivity between Environment and Health Information Systems: Supporting Synergy Between Environment and Health Research and Policies' has been postponed to the 4th July 2008. For further details please visit the website http://envihealth.jrc.ec.europa.eu/CEHIS/workshop_stakeholder.htm

CEN (European Committee for Standardization), ETPIS(European Technology Platform on Industrial Safety) and EU-VRi (European Virtual Institute for Integrated Risk Management)have decided to join their efforts to perform a survey which is aimed at identifying the needs and expectations in the area of Risk Assessment related to:

The INTARESE 3rd Annual Meeting will take place from 11 - 13 November 2008 in Bonn

We currently have a vacancy for a PhD student on Monetary and Non-monetary Quantification of the Environmental Health Impactsi of Transport. The candidate will be employed by the Institute of Risk Assessmenti Sciences - IRAS at Utrecht University and stationed at RIVM National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, about 5 km. from IRAS

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To ensure appropriate participation in the Second Programme of Community action in the field of Health (2008-13) and fulfilment of all the programme objectives, a wider variety of financing mechanisms are offered... read more