Source: 'Science for Environment Policy', issue 140, European Commission, Environment DG

A recent study suggests that a more inclusive and integrated approach to assessing environmental health risks and policies is needed to deal with the increased complexity and systemic nature of the risks.

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On 26 and 27 March 2009, the NoMiracle 5th public workshop Cumulative Risk Assessmenti: a Challenge for Science and Management will be held in the Study Centre Soeterbeeck, Ravenstein, the Netherlands.

We would like to urge you to join us. Through lectures and interactive discussion we will explore the following topics:

1. Regulatory state of the art : Why is cumulative risk assessment required and what are the priorities/needs from a regulatory perspective?
2. Scientific state of the art : what are the advances in assessment of cumulative exposurei, effects and risks?

LRI Innovative Science Award - The European Chemical Industry Council is offering a €100,000 award to support innovative research in the field of exposurei sciences. For more information please visit the website http://www.cefic-lri.org/index.php?page=awards

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).