5th International Academic Conference on

Environmental and Occupational Medicine

7-10 April 2010

Howard Johnson Conference Resort Chengdu, Dujiangyan, Sichuan Province China

 

Agenda 

7  April  Registration  all day

8  April  Plenary all day

Opening ceremony  Moderator: WU Fan

9:00-9:30                 Opening Remarks:

1. Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau

2. Director General, Dujiangyan Health Bureau

3. Richard Kreutzer, California Department of Public Health, USA

4. Prof. Brent Powis, Consultant for Environmental Health, WHO China Office

9:30-9:45                 Introduction

Harmony between Man and Environment:: Dujiangyan’s History and Culture

Mayor of Dujiangyan city

9:45-10:15              Keynote speech

Public Health Impact of Climate Change     (Presentation PPT)

Dr Mark Keim,  Senior Advisor, Centers for Disease and Prevention National Center for Environmental Health   

10:15-10:30            Tea break   

                                              

Presentation           Moderators: LU Wei, Amit PRASAD

10:30-11:15            A Common Infection Pool: The Spread of Pathogens into Humans from other Animals Due to Ecological Change 

Aaron BERSTEIN, MD MPH     (Presentation PPT)
Faculty, Center for Health and the Global Environment  and Instructor in Medicine Harvard Medical School

11:15-11:45            China's Occupational Health: Status, Challenges and Responses Tool

LI Tao, Institute for Occupational Health and Poison Control, ChinaCDC        (Presentation PPT)

11:45-12:15            Making Healthy Community Development Choices  (Presentation PPT)

                                     Richard KREUTZER, Chief, Division of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control, CDPH, CA,USA

12:15-13:50            Buffet lunch

 

Presentation           Moderator: Richard KreutzerZHANG Sheng-nian

14:00-14:30            World Expo's Impact on City and Its Evaluation

WU Fan, Director, Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (Presentation PPT)

14:30-15:00            Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool  (Presentation PPT)

Megumi KANO  WHO Centre for Health Development (WHO Kobe Center)

15:00-15:30            Long-term Exposure to Industrial Dust and Major Causes of Death in Chinese Workers

                                     CHEN Wei-hongSchool of Public Health Huazhong University of Science   

                                     & Technology       (Presentation PPT)

15:30-16:00            Investigtion of Birth Defects Cluster

Edwin TREVATHAN, Director, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities , USCDC                                        

16:00-16:15            Tea break

 

Presentation           Moderator: JIN Tai-yi, Hugh TILSON

16:15-16:45            Capacity Development for Managing Climate Change Mitigation, Adaptation and Health Impact

                            Prof. Brent Powis, Consultant for Environmental Health, WHO China Office    (Presentation PPT)

16:45-17:15            Food Security: Climate Change and Agricultural Production

                                     John Petterson  Director. Sequoia Foundation       (Presentation PPT)

17:15-17:45            A Global Vision for Advancing Public Health in the 21st Century (Presentation PPT)

Dr William GREENLEE, President and CEP, The Hamner Institute for Health Sciences, USA

18:00                         Dinner

20:30                         Workshop

                                     Manuscript Processing at Environmental Health Perspectives

                                     Hugh A Tilson     (Presentation PPT)

                                     How to increase the odds of your ariticle being accepted.?

                                     Hui HU, Junyan HONG

 

Morning  9  April  Sub-plenary

 = 1 \* ROMAN I. Ecology, Climate and Health sub-plenary

Moderator: Mark KeimYUAN Dong

9:00-9:30                 Outdoor Air Pollution and Population Health in China: A Critical Review

                                     Kan Hai-dong, Professor, Public Health School, Fudan University     (Presentation PPT)

9:30-10:00              Public Health, Urbanlization, and Climate Change: The Common Thread of Public Health Emergencies

Dr. Frederick Burkle, MD, MPH, Senior Fellow with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University       (Presentation PPT)

10:00-10:30            Study on the Goal of  Ecological Rehabilitation and Related Management

                                     Technology in Suzhou Creek

YIN Hao-wenShanghai Academy of Public Management      (Presentation PPT)

10:30-10:45            Tea break

 

Moderator: KAN Hai-dong, Mark Keim

10:45-11:15            Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Different Scenarios in the year of 2000~2006 Shanghai

                                     YUAN Dong, Director, Office of International Cooperation, Shanghai CDC

11:15-11:45            = 1 \* ROMAN IHumanitarian Future

                                     Eric K. NOJI  Senior Vice-President for Global Health All Humanity Group

11:45-12:15            Typical Features of Air Pollution Process in Yangtze River Delta Cities

CHEN Chang-hongShanghai Academy of Environmental Sciences   (Presentation PPT)

 

 = 2 \* ROMAN II . City and Health sub-pleanary

Moderator: JIN Yin-longRichard Kreutzer

9:00-9:30                 Indoor Air Pollution and Lung Cancer in Chinese Population

                                     Zuofeng ZHANG, Professor, Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of

                                     Public HealthUCLA Center for Environmental Genomics     (Presentation PPT)

9:30-10:00              Multi-sectoral Collaboration in the Process of Health Promotion---based on

                                     Empirical Analysis of the Relationship between Government, Society and

                                     Individuals       (presentation PPT)            

                                     LIANG Hong LI JuanSchool of Social Development and Public Policy,   Fudan University

10:00-10:30            Pattern of Changing Incidence of Thyroid Cancer and its Time Trend

                                     before and after Universal salt iodization in Shanghai      (Presentation PPT)

                                     ZHENG Ying, Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention

10:30-10:45            Tea break

 

ModeratorZuofeng ZHANGLI Min

10:45-11:15            Smoking trend and intervention strategies for urban population

                                     FU Hua, Professor, Public Health School, Fudan University   (Presentation PPT)

11:15-11:45      Health and the Built Environment   

                                     Vikrant Sood, American MIG Inc.    (Presentation PPT)

11:45-12:15            Fatty Acid Composition of Diet, Cord blood and Breast milk in Chinese

                                        Mothers with Different Dietary Habits

                                     PENG Yong-mei, Children's Hospital of Fudan University      (Presentation PPT)

                                    

 = 3 \* ROMAN III. Occupation and Health sub-plenary

Moderator: LI Tao, Ignatius Tak-sun YU

9:00-9:30             Diagnosis of Occupational Benzene Poisoning---Achievements and Challenges

                                     ZOU He-jianHuashan Hospital of Fudan University

9:30-10:00              Occupational Health for Firefighters

                                     JIA Xiao-dong, Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention    (Presentation PPT)

                                    

10:00-10:30            Workplace Environmental Tobacco Smoking and Adenocarcinoma of the

                                     Lung among Nonsmoking Men  (Presentation PPT)

                                    Lap Ah TSESchool of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, China

10:30-10:45            Tea break

 

Moderator: Lap Ah TseJIA Xiao-dong

10:45-11:15            Occupational Exposure Assessment and Genetic Damage in Vinyl Chloride monomer- Exposed Workers     (Presentation PPT)

                                     XIA Zhao-linProfessorPublic Health School, Fudan University

11:15-11:45            Establishement of Job-exposure Matrix of Silica dust, 1953-2000, Shanghai    (Presentation PPT)

ZHU Su-rong, Institute of Public Health Inspection, Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau

11:45-12:15            Status and Direction of Mental Health and Stress Research of Working

                                     Populations in China    (Presentation PPT)

                                     YU Shan-fa, GU Gui-zhen He’nan Provincial Institute for Occupational Diseases

                 

. Exposure and Evaluation sub-plenary

Moderator: Junyan HONGXIAO Ping

9:00-9:30                 Children’s exposure to environmental chemicals: Priority of Cause

                                     and Susceptibility      (Presentation PPT)

Chensheng (Alex) LU, Dept. of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health

9:30-10:00              Establishment of the JEM for Occupational Hazards, 1953-2000, Shanghai   (Presentation PPT)

                                     XUE Shou-zheng, Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention

10:00-10:30            Can whole blood transcriptome analysis provide mechanistic insight

                                     into  drug-induced liver injury?    (Presentation PPT)

                                     Tong ZHOUThe Hamner Institute for Health Sciences

10:30-10:45            Tea Break

 

Moderator:JIN Tai-yiXIAO Ping

10:45-11:15            Identification of Biomarkers in Environmental and Occupational Health: The “omics” approach.

Prof Choon Nam ONG Director, NUS Environmental Research Institute & Professor, Epidemiology and Public Health National University of Singapore      (Presentation PPT)

11:15-11:45            Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) enhance metastatic properties of

                                     breast cancer cells by activating Rho-associated kinase (ROCK) 

                                     LIU Si-jinState Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and

                                     Ecotoxicology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese

                                     Academy of Sciences

11:45-12:15            .Environmental Disease Susceptibility with Genetic Polymorphism Data: Are We There Yet?

                                     Junyan HONGUniversity of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey    (Presentation PPT)

12:15-12:45           

 

 = 5 \* ROMAN V.Environmental Lead Exposure and Health sub-plenary:

Moderator: JIN Tai-yi, Perry Gottesfeld

9:00-9:30                 Childhood Lead Poisoning: A Preventable Environmental Health Disease  (Presentation PPT)

                                     Mary Jean Brown  Chief, U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention

                                     Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch

9:30-10:00              Lead limits and lead pollutions in housing paint of China   (Presentation PPT)

LIN Guo-zhen, Director, Department of Non-communicable Diseases, Guangzhou CDC

10:00-10:30            International efforts to address lead paints and exposures from industrial 

                                     sources  (Presentation PPT)

                                     Perry Gottesfeld, Executive Director, Occupational Knowledge

                                     International

10:30-10:45            Tea Break

 

Moderator: Perry Gottesfeld,  LINGuo-zhen

10:45-11:15            Children Lead Poisoning in China   (Presentation PPT)

YAN Chong-huai, Xinhua Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong Uninverisity

11:15-11:45            Lead Poisoning Prevention in Housing in the U.S.: Implications for Research And Policy

                                     Dave Jacobs  Associate Clinical Professor, University of Colorado Denver and Colorado School of Public Health      (Presentation PPT)

11:45-12:15            Recommendations for the Medical management of Adult lead Exposure

                                     from Occupational Environment Sources     (Presentation PPT)

                                     Michael Kosnett  Associate Clinical Professor, University of Colorado

                                     Denver and Colorado School of Public Health

 

 

12:30-13:50            Buffet lunch

 

Afternoon, 9, April  Plenary

14:00-16:00            Brainstorming

                                     Topic: Harmony between Man and Environment: Role of Public Health

                                     Chair: CHEN Bing-heng,

                                     Rapporteur: John PETTERSON, KAN Hai-dong, SU Jin

16:00-16:15            Tea Break                                              

 

Presentation

Moderator:              Mark KEIM,  ZHOU Zhi-jun

16:15-16:45            Environmental and Health Challenges Facing China and Suggestions

JIN Yin-long, Institute for Environment Hygiene and Health related products, China CDC

16:45-17:15            Recent Perstectives on Environmental Health Perspectives

                                     Hugh Tilson , Editor-in-chief, EHP

Closing ceremony

Moderator:  LU Wei

17:15-17:45            1. Summary

                                     2. Closing remarks

Mark KEIM Senior Advisor, Centers for Disease and Prevention National Center for Environmental Health

18:00                         Dinner

                              

 

10 April             Post conference sightseeing