Ramazzini Days
RAMAZZINI DAYS 2015: Living in a Chemical World (IV edition)
22-25 October 2015
Carpi, Italy
SUMMARY SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
THURSDAY, 22 OCTOBER 2015
| 15:00-19:00 | Conference check-in |
| 19:30 | Welcome dinner |
FRIDAY, 23 OCTOBER 2015
| 9:00-10:30 |
Living in a Chemical World Session I
THE RAMAZZINI INSTITUTE: ADVANCING CANCER PREVENTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SINCE 1969
The Ramazzini Institute: advancing cancer prevention and environmental health since 1969
Large-scale projects of the Ramazzini Institute on carcinogenic effects of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation on Sprague-Dawley rats
Ramazzini Institute/Mount Sinai School of Medicine: in vivo bioassay model for endocrine disruptive chemicals (EDCs) studies
Ramazzini Institute/National Toxicology Program: the added value of immunohistochemistry in the diagnosis of lymphoma and leukemia in experimental models
Ramazzini Institute/Johns Hopkins University: the role of the Ramazzini Institute in the development of systematic reviews in environmental health
Carcinogenic effects of sucralose administered in feed to male and female Swiss mice from prenatal life until spontaneous death |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee |
| 11:00-12:30 |
Living in a Chemical World Session II
THE GLOBAL BURDEN OF CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE (COPD)
The global burden of COPD
A case-control study of airway obstruction among construction workers: implications for OSH Policy
Biological basis of COPD from Vapors/Gas/Dust/Fumes(VGDF)
Occupational exposures to Vapors/Gas/Dust/Fumes (VGDF) and dust not otherwise specified (NOS): control strategies and policy needs
Assessment of exposure to occupational particulates: research and policy needs |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00-16:00 |
Living in a Chemical World Session III
POLLUTION FOLLOWS THE PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE
Pollution follows the path of least resistance
Adaptation of methodologies to implement a coordinated environmental and health response to the worst outbreak of childhood lead poisoning in modern history in Nigeria
Lead pollution in Nigeria and Zambia: two different remedial strategies and public health outcomes
Lessons learned in environmental regulation and remediation: industry's agenda, public health battles and the global consequences
Collateral damage of metal mining in Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo
Mining old and new in Mongolia
The buck stops there: challenges to holding extra-national corporations and global financial institutions responsible for the environmental and health consequences of their operations in developing countries |
| 16:00-18:30 | Free time |
| 18:30 | Special Award honoring the volunteers of the Ramazzini Institute |
| 20:00 | Dinner |
SATURDAY, 24 OCTOBER 2015
| 9:00-12:30 | Council of Fellows |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 14:30-15:15 |
WORK OF THE FELLOWS ATTENDED POSTER SESSION
Integrated risk and impact assessment of industrial emissions: the cases of Brindisi and Taranto in Italy
Mercury contaminated rice causes severe mercury intoxication: case report from the small-scale gold mining village of Cisitu, Indonesia
Harassed early warning scientists and the proposed Ibsen award
Lead-free kids: two perspectives from two different schools in New Delhi, India
The urgent need for expanded training in global occupational and environmental health
Shifting paradigms: making the case of nuance wearable technologies use in the field of occupational and environmental medicine
Czech criteria for occupational chronic lumbar vertebral column diseases due to overload of the spine
Raman microspectroscopy of exhaled breath condensate and urine in workers exposed to fine and nano TiO2 particles
From "heating the heads" to zero tolerance for incitement: a call to action against "word pollution†to prevent genocidal terror and genocide
Make way for the microbiome: a provocative review
Cumulative impacts mapping: the California communities environmental health screening tool
Long-term mortality in a residential cohort exposed to inorganic hexavalent selenium through drinking water
Passive exposure to agricultural pesticides and risk of childhood leukemia in an Italian community
Chemicals, pollution and perception: how mothers-to-be and midwives perceive and manage the risk to reproduction from chemicals and other hazards in Scotland's central belt
Occupations in the 21st century as described by Ramazzini in the 17th century |
| 15:15-17:00 |
ADVOCACY PLANNING AND DISCUSSION ELIMINATING OCCUPATIONAL CANCER
Some recent developments and evaluations from the IARC monographs pertinent to the estimation of the global burden of occupational cancer
Social attention on Asbestos-related disease (ARD) in Japan: 10 years from the Kubota shock
Eliminating occupational cancer
Collegium Ramazzini Standing Committee Meetings |
| 17:00-18:30 | Free Time |
| 18:30-19:30 |
The 2015 Ramazzini Award will be conferred upon Philippe Grandjean (Denmark) for his long career conducting and promoting environmental health research, especially his groundbreaking work on the effects of methylmercury and other environmental toxins affecting children and for his tireless advocacy of the need to protect future generations from the devastating effects of neuro- and developmental toxins. Professor Grandjean will deliver the 2015 Ramazzini Lecture entitled "Learning from Bernardino Ramazzini". download |
| 19:45 | Direct departure for social dinner |
SUNDAY, 25 OCTOBER 2015
| 9:30-11:00 |
WORK OF THE FELLOWS ORAL PRESENTATIONS PART I
Advocating exposure assessment in postgraduate training
Training occupational safety and health in Latin America: an example
Cumulative impacts: approaches to environmental justice
New data streams in toxicity testing: limitations and uses in decision-making
Ban of asbestos in Sweden has saved lives
Health effects of manganese exposure in welders in Qingdao City, China |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee |
| 11:30-13:00 |
WORK OF THE FELLOWS ORAL PRESENTATIONS PART II
Environmental justice - disaster and disparity: access to federally-qualified health centers and Superstorm Sandy Naresh Gupta (India) download
Is hypothyroidism the mechanism behind the reported reduction in IQ among populations living in areas with higher fluoride in the drinking water?
A case for creating a new Nobel prize in transdisciplinary science
Cognitive functions of schoolchildren are compromised by lifetime exposure to organophosphorous pesticide drift
Investigating epigenetic mechanisms for cancer prevention |
| 13:30 | Farewell Lunch |