The 6th International Conference on Children's Health, Environment and Safety is taking place in Lodz, Poland at 14-16 November 2011
This conference - the sixth after Amsterdam (1998), Washington (2001), London (2004), Vienna (2007) and Bangalore (2010) offers a world-wide platform dealing with health problems of children caused by important environmental influences.
The objectives of this conference are:
· to provide an international forum for the latest research findings in children’s environmental health;
· to define the relationship between environmental contaminants and children's health;
· to strengthen the importance of prenatal exposure to environmental factors on pregnancy outcome and children’s health
· to identify opportunities to minimise childhood prenatal and postnatal exposure to environmental contaminants;
· to provide insight in the activities in the field of science and policy interface;
· to build a platform of knowledge at an international level;
· to develop a greater awareness among health professionals about children's health and the environment;
· to initiate future directions in research in the field of children's environmental health
Scientific and organizing committee
Wojciech Hanke, NIOM, Poland
Peter van den Hazel, INCHES, the Netherlands
Stephan Boese-O’Reilly, LMU, Germany
Ondine S. von Ehrenstein, University of California, USA
Ruth Etzel, WHO, Switzerland
Hanns Moshammer, Medical University, Austria
Dorota Jarosinska EEA, Copenhagen
Kinga Polańska, NIOM, Poland
Joanna Jurewicz, NIOM, Poland
Who should attend?
This cross-sectional conference is intended for health professionals, scientists and policy makers who have a special interest in children's environmental health, as well as leaders from the private sector, non-governmental organizations and community organizations, and all levels of government.
Contact information
Department of Environmental Epidemiology
Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine
8 Teresy St.
91-348 Lodz, Poland
Tel.: +48 42 6314 569
Fax: + 48 42 6314 562
e-mail: inches2011@wp.pl
What is INCHES?
INCHES is a global network of people and organizations interested in promoting the protection of children from environmental and safety hazards. INCHES represents many interests and will speak from the experience and expertise of members of the network, of science and of the best practices in policies and programmes. Promoting children's health requires protecting them from harmful environmental exposures. These exposures include: harmful physical, chemical and biological microorganisms and pollutants in water, air, soil and food.
INCHES will disseminate information and initiate research on the relationship between environmental factors and child health. Solid facts and good examples will be made easily available on the Internet as the network develops. Parents, researchers and scientists, children's organizations, children themselves are all potential partners with a stake in INCHES. Children are more susceptible to environmental hazards than previously thought. Children are in a dynamic state of growth, as many vital systems such as the nervous, immune, and respiratory systems are not fully developed at birth. Because children are still developing, exposure to environmental hazards may result in disruption of their normal development and may cause damage.
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Previous conference
The conference in India was a great success. The host organisation, the Lakeside View Hospital Foundation did a great job in organising the 5th International conference in Bangalore, India
Organized by
International Network on Children’s Health Environment and Safety (INCHES)
Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine (NIOM)
WHO Country Office in Poland
Polish-Norwegian Research Programme
Official Language
The official language of the conference is English.
No simultaneous translation service will be available.
Registration fee
The registration fee for the conference "Children's Health and the Environment" is € 150,00 and includes entrance to the conference, all coffee/tea breaks and Conference Dinner. A limited number of fellowships are available for those with accepted abstracts to cover registration fees and/or travel/accommodation. Priority will be given to those from developing countries and students. A request for a fellowship should be emailed to inches2011@wp.pl with a cover letter explaining why the fellowship is necessary and describe the support from other sources to cover other cost. The registration form can also be found in attachment and need to be send to inches2011@wp.pl
Call for abstracts until 16th of September 2011
All participants are invited to submit an abstract for an oral or poster presentation during the conference. The abstracts will be reviewed by the scientific committee. Each presenter will receive a confirmation letter of acceptance and the decision if the presentation is accepted as a poster or oral presentation.
Abstracts should preferably address the conference themes:
· Children’s health, environment and policies
· Exposure assessment studies
· Epidemiological longitudinal studies (Birth cohort studies)
· Children and the health effects due to climate change
· Children and water related problems
· Obesity
· Children and heavy metals
· Childhood-based cancer causes
· Children and air pollution
· Neurodevelopmental effects in children
· Endocrine Disrupters
· Children as risk group and cross-cutting issues
· Children and noise
· Risk communication
Abstracts have to be submitted by E-mail (inches2011@wp.pl) in attached abstract form. No fax submissions will be accepted. Abstracts of no more than 250 words should include: a) objectives, b) methods, c) results, and d) conclusions.
o to abstract formSelected papers can be published in International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Heath. The Scientific Committee will ask selected authors of presentations to prepare full text of the manuscript.
The winners of the world’s first environmental health film
competition are known.
At the prize winning sessions at the Leids Film Festival (31 st of October 2009, 13.00 -15.00 hours in Leiden) the prizewinners were announced. The winner in the category films 1 minute to 5 minutes: the film IVO by Rihards Olmanis from Latvia. The winner in the category films 5 minutes to t15 minutes: the film Blackrainbow by Ji-Suk Jung from Korea.
As part of the 10th Anniversary celebrations starting from 15 September 2008, the International Network on Children’s Health, Environment and Safety (INCHES) worked on this competition. The Network will use the films in the near future at trainings, seminars and conferences. INCHES showed a selection of films at the last Ministerial Conference on Health and Environment in Parma in March 2010. <<read previous messages>>
Winner Rihards Olmanis from Latvia
Prize winner Ji-Suk Jung from Korea
Handing nomination to Mehmet Genç
chair Peter van den Hazel Handing nomination award to GAurav Cchabra
