I Environmental Health Interamerican Congress
Program
Day 27 April Tuesday
08:00 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 10:30 Key note:
Dr. Paulo Buss
- FIOCRUZ President -Brazil
Development, Environment and Health
10:30 - 13:00
Session 1: Specific Environmental Risks
Volney de Magalhães Câmara - UFRJ - Residues and the Health Sector -Brazil
Margaret Weidenbach -Gerbase - Geneve University - Urban Health Effects of Air Pollution -Switzerland
Paulo Teixeira - PAHO/WHO - Exposure to Organic Dust Particles -Guyana
Eduardo de Mello Capitani - UNICAMP - Exposure to Inorganic Dust Particles -Brazil
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:30
Session 2: Waterborne Diseases
Léo Heller - UFMG, Belo Horizonte - Sanitation and Health -Brazil
Ernesto de Titto - AIDIS - Environmental Health in Argentine: From Theorie to Practice -Argentine
Carl-Axel Soderberg .- EPA - Recreational Waters - Risk Control in Puerto Rico -Puerto Rico/USA
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 - 19:30
Session 3: Risk Exposure in Occupational Environments
Elizabeth Costa Dias - Fac. Medicina - UFMG - Occupational Pathologies Related to Environmental Quality -Brazil
Flavio Zambrone - WCC/clorosur - Unicamp - Chemical Risks Evaluation - Basis for Control Programs -Brazil
Berenice Goelzer - WHO - Occupational Risks’ Identification, Evaluation and Prevention -Switzerland
Alberto Nicolella - CIT/RS - Rural Occupational Risks - Accidents With Poisonous Animals -Brazil
Day 28 April Wednesday
08:30 - 10:30
Session 4: Health and Chemical Assurance
Coordinator Guilherme Franco Netto - SVS/MS -Brazil
Henrique Brandão Cavalcanti - FISQ - Chemical Assurance and Sustainable Development -Brazil
Marijane Lisboa - Environment Ministry - Chemical Assurance National Plan Construction -Brazil
Luiz Cláudio Meirelles - ANVISA/MS - Regulation and Strategies for Agrotoxic Control in Brasil -Brazil
Marco Antônio Gomes Pérez - Health Ministry - Chemical Assurance and the Workers Health -Brazil
Fernanda Gianassi - ACPO - Human Exposure: The Amianthus Case -Brazil
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Technical Presentation
Leandro Dhein - Plastisul -Porto Alegre - Use of PEAD Geomembrane for Contention of Health Sector Residues -Brazil
11:00 - 13:00
Session 5: Environment, Food and Health
Claudio Almeida - INPAZ/OPS, Buenos Aires - Food Safety and Diseases Transmission -Argentine
Albino Belotto - OPS, Washington - The Chain of Food Production – Perspectives and Impact on Public Health and the Environment -USA
Sílvio Vale - FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro - Risks and Benefits of Foodstuff that is or Contains GMO -Brazil
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:30
Session 6: Environmental Exposition and the Effect of Pollutants on Children AND Elderly
Coordinator: Hermano Castro - FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro -Brazil
Mayra Ojeda - INHEM - Children’s Environment Health - Health Risk Factors -Cuba
Irva Hertz-Piciotto - Davis University - Chemical Pollutants of the Environmental and Maternal and Child Health -USA
Clarice Freitas - CVE, São Paulo - Epidemiological Surveillance on the Population Exposed to Air Pollution -Brazil
Luis Augusto Galvão - OPS, Washington - PAHO’s Regional Program for Environmental Health-USA
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 - 19:30
Session 7: Sick Buildings and Environmental Health
Carlos Barceló - INHEM - Forecasting and Avoiding the Risk Factors - The Physical View -Cuba
Berenice Goelzer - OMS - Home as a Working Place -Reckoning and Controlling the Environmental Risks -Switzerland
Carlos Nunes Tietboehl - HCPA - Detecting the Exposure Effects - the Medical View -Brazil
Paulo Beyer- UFRGS - Air Quality Optimization - the Engineering View -Brazil
21:00 Best Poster Prize - Environmental Health PETROBRAS Prize. Dinner (by subscription)
Day 29 April Thursday
08:30 - 10:30
Session 8: Environmental Health National Policies Construction: The Importance of an Inter-Sector Approach
Coordinator Ary Carvalho de Miranda - FIOCRUZ -Brazil
Guilherme Franco Netto - SVS/Health Ministry - The Construction of a Environmental Health National Policy -Brazil
Cláudio Langone - Environment Ministry - Environment and Health: Inter-Sector Approach -Brazil
Abelardo Oliveira Filho - Cities’ Ministry - Sanitation, Environment and Health: Inter-Sector Approach -Brazil
Arline Sydneia Abel Arcuri - MTE - Work, Environment and Health: Inter-Sector Approach -Brazil
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 13:00
Session 9: Environmental Health Information System: A Pending Question
Marco Antonio Ratzsch de Andreazzi - IBGE - Socio-environmental Information: IBGE Data Bank Usage -Brazil
Jacques Levin - Depto. de Informática - SUS/MS - The Health Information National Systems -Brazil
Diego Gonzalez - CEPIS/OPS - Network of Intox Centers in the Americas (Information Basis) -Perú
Jorge Luiz Sayde de Azevedo - ANVISA/MS - Intox Control Centers Network in Brasil -Brazil
Marylin Disirio - ATSDR, Atlanta - Toxic Substances Registry in the USA -USA
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:30
Session 10: Presentation of the Winning Posters
I: Third Best Poster
II: Second Best Poster
III: Best Poster (Environmental Health PETROBRAS Prize)
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 - 19:30
Session 11: Impact of Environmental Sanitation on the Health Sector
Coordinator Antônio César da Costa e Silva - ABES President -Brazil
Horst Otterstetter - AIDIS, Washington - Social Impacts of Environmental Health Programs -USA
Jorge Ossanai - International Consultant - Health Impact Assessment of Environmental Polutants -USA
Alex Chechilnitzky - AIDIS’ President-elect, Santiago - The Impact of Water Supply and Sanitation Programs - The Case of Chile -Chile
Antonio Carlos Rossin - FSP/USP - Impact Evaluation Procedures - Lessons Learned -Brazil