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14 January 2012 Save the Date > June 28, 2012, Benzene Conference New York On June 28, 2012 the Collegium Ramazzini and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine will host a one-day conference on "BENZENE, CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIAS AND HEMATOPOIETIC LYMPHORETICULAR CANCERS" in honor of Collegium co-founder Irving J. Selikoff. The event will be held in the Goldwurm Auditorium at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. Download scientific program.
Symposium Chairman:
Myron A. Mehlman
Scientific Committee:
Myron A. Mehlman,
Eula Bingham,
Philip Landrigan,
Peter Infante,
Nachman Brautbar,
Morando Soffritti,
Melissa McDiarmid
Steven Markowtiz
Registration information:
Ms. Alvara McBean
Executive Assistant to Philip Landrigan, MD, MSc
Chairman, Dept. of Preventive Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
One Gustav L. Levy Place, Box 1057
New York, NY 10029-6574
Tel: 212-824-7018;
Fax: 212-996-0407
Email: alvara.mcbean@mssm.edu
Registration fee: $80.00 US
Collegium Fellows: No charge
Students: No charge
For special hotel rates near Mt. Sinai, contact Ms. Bean.
Requests to submit Poster Presentations should double spaced on one page and sent to:
Myron Mehlman
7 Bouvant Dr.
Princeton NJ 08540-1208
Phone: 609-683-1493
FAX: 609-683-0838
email: mehlman@comcast.net
10 December 2011New website for Montevideo conference > 22-24 March 2012 Visit the new website of the upcoming meeting on "Environment and health in political agenda" to be held Montevideo, Uruguay from March 22-24, 2012: www.ciat.hc.edu.uy/. The conference is jointly organized by the Collegium Ramazzini and the Universidad Republica Oriental de Uruguay in honor of Dr. Jenny Pronczuk De Garbino (1947-2010), Fellow of the Collegium Ramazzini, who dedicated her professional life to the prevention of child diseases in the world. A preparatory symposium is also planned in Buenos Aires on March 20th.
Major themes of the conference will include:
1) embryonic and fetal exposure to environmental pollutants;
2) universal issues in environmental contamination (water contaminants, pesticides, atmospheric pollutants in metropolitan areas, environmental persistent pharmaceutical pollutants);
3) "Hot issues" in occupational and environmental health today (nuclear plants, volatile chemicals, fibres, non-ionizing EMF, drug exposure of workers in clinical oncology);
4) health impact of nanomaterials (in pesticides, household products, drugs, food, etc).
The event will conclude with a roundtable on current policy governing each of these areas; a statement of recommendations will be proposed.
1 December 2012Save the Dates Ramazzini Days 2012 The 2012 edition of the Annual Ramazzini Days will be held in Carpi, Italy on October 27th and 28th. Fellows should plan to arrive at the Bologna International Airport or Modena/Carpi train stations on Friday 26 October. Departures should be scheduled on Sunday afternoon October 28th or Monday October 29th. Online registration will open in July 2012. Questions may be directed to Conference Manager Federica Scagliarini events@ramazzini.it. View Ramazzini Days 2011 presentations. Program and abstracts also available for download.
24 October 2011CR Statement on the Safety and Health of Migrant Labour The Collegium Ramazzini has just released its 16th statement: "The Safety and Health of Migrant Labour: A Call to the International Community for Action". The abstract of this statement is published below, the full text may be downloaded here.
As part of its core mission to disseminate information to concerned stakeholders, the Collegium regularly releases "Collegium Ramazzini Statements" on topics of particular interest. These statements are used as reference points for governments and international agencies as well as by physicians in occupational medicine. Statements reflect the official orientation of the Collegium on topics of major interest. They are adopted in full independence and are exclusively based on scientific knowledge and ethical principles.
Abstract
While workers have traveled from their place of residence in search of employment throughout history, labour migration has increased dramatically in the last two decades with recent liberalization of global trade. Today, one-third of the world's population depend on remittances from migrant workers for a significant part of their livelihood. A growing part of this migration is within countries, from rural areas to the burgeoning industrial centers. While the international finance institutions have heralded the benefits of migrancy, much less attention has been given to the health needs that are created by migrancy.
The health and safety needs that arise from migrancy affect workers, workers' families and workers' communities. They come in the form of abuse, malnutrition, transmission of infectious diseases and mental disorders. Female migrant workers and the children of migrant workers are especially vulnerable to health effects. Although poorly quantified, these health effects are a major cause of world-wide morbidity and mortality.
The Collegium Ramazzini calls upon the international community to give special attention to this issue, by urging employers, governments and international organizations to provide migrant workers and their families the safety and health protections that to which they are entitled. Specifically, we urge the WHO and ILO to launch an international movement focused on reducing the health needs that arise from reliance on migrant labour. We also urge the United Nations to adopt a Convention on the Safety and Health of Migrant Labour, in which member nations commit to establishing both domestic and international protections against the abuse of migrant workers and their families.
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