PBC 2009 Program

Training Workshops

Children’s Environmental Health

Children's Health and the Environment

Why Children?

Vulnerability of Children to Air Pollution

Susceptibility of Children to Environmental Pollutants

Environmental Health Risk Assessment

Environmental Health Risk Assessment and Communication

Climate Change and Biosecurity in the Asian Pacific Region
Session Chair: Prof. Peter Sly

Climate Change and Health: New Environmental Hazard, or Risk Amplifier, or Systemic Disruptor – or All of the Above?
Professor Tony McMichael

The effect of environmental factors on the emergence of viral diseases in the Asia-Pacific region
Professor John Mackenzie

Lead Symposium
Session Chairs: Dr. William Suk and Dr. Andrea Hinwood

The Lingering Legacy of Lead Toxicity: A Call for the Global Elimination of Lead Exposure
Professor Bruce Lanphear

Risk assessment and risk communication; lessons learned after lead dust pollution in Esperance, WA
Professor Alison Jones

Environmental lead contamination around Mount Isa City, Queensland, Australia: Naturally occurring or the result of mining activity
Mark Taylor

Chronic low levels of lead exposure and neurocognitive development in children: Implications for prevention, management and policy
Dr. Carolyn A. Schniering

Assessing community health risks: Proactive vs Reactive Sampling
Sarah Taylor

Bird Kills in Esperance WA: a case of “canaries in the mine”
Professor Brian Gulson

Water – remediation and recycling
Session Chairs - Dr. Robert Arnold and Dr. Jane Heyworth

Water: Conservation and Recycling in Queensland - working towards a sustainable future?
Professor Phil Weinstein

Fluoride removal from drinking water in rural areas of China
Prof. Bo Ling

Okra leaves as an economical sorbent for the removal of nickel, copper, lead and cadmium from drinking/waste water
Saima Q. Memon

Fluoride in drinking water: Environmental hazards and control measures
V. Murugesan

Recovery of quality water for reuse from domestic and industrial waterwater - recent realitis
S. Rajamani

Augmenting Perth’s drinking water supplies with recycled water
Clemencia Rodriguez

Is drinking untreated rainwater a risk to health? Consumption of tank rainwater and the risk of gastroenteritis among young children in Rural South Australia
Jane Heyworth

Geochemical Factors Controlling the Occurrence of High Fluoride Groundwater in the Thar Desert, Pakistan
Tahir Rafique

Wastewater-Recycling, Reuse and Remediation for Sustainable Agriculture
R. Raman

Human Algal Blooms, The Philippine Red Tide Experience and Climate Change?
Irma Makalinao

Hazardous Waste Remediation
Session Chairs - Dr. Mahmood Khwaja and Dr. Rajendra Prasad

Environmental Pollution Due to Hazardous Chemicals (POPs) Releases from Wastes Incineration in Pakistan
Dr. Mahmood Khwaja

Activated Carbon Amendment & DDT Contaminated Soil
Asma Younas

The involvement of stakeholders in the improvement of healthcare waste management in Indonesia
Sri Irianti

Reducing environmental exposures by teaching and practicing the management of pollutants
Margaret-Ann Armour

Review of soil remediation technologies through patent analysis
Rajendra Prasad

Defining appropriate options for post-closure land-use of the Tamala Park landfill: A community participation process
Marie Lourdes Raphael

The role of black carbon for the fate and behavior of organic pollutants in the environment
Dr. Thomas D Bucheli

Reduction of dieldrin uptake from contaminated soil by cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) using activated charcoal amendment
Isabel Hilber

Photocatalytic reduction of chromium (VI) over nano size Nd doped Ti02 under UV light illumination
Selvaraj Rengaraj

Emerging Issues in the Pacific Basin
Session Chairs - Dr. Kirpal Singh and Dr. Graeme Zosky

The Role of the Australian Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre (AB-CRC) in combating Emerging Infectious Disease threats in the Pacific Basin
Professor Malcolm Nairn

Nanotechnology and Manufactured Nanoparticles – Are They important for Children’s Environmental Health?
Professor Peter Sly

Passive Sampling – What we are doing in the aqueous environment
Professor Jochen Mueller

PCB exposure as a risk factor for hypertension, cardiovascular disease and diabetes
Dr. David Carpenter

Spatial analysis of environmental factors for leptospirosis outbreak during the February 2007 floods in Jakarta, Indonesia
MK Sudaryo

Emerging POPs in Australians - Models and Measurement
Professor Jochen Mueller

Mining- Exposures of workers and surrounding communities
Session Chairs - Dr. Margaret-Ann Armour and Dr. César Paz-y-Miño

Community Exposure in a Mining Area As a Result of Mine industrial Activities
Dr. Zhang Xin-ying

Marinduque (Philippines) 11 years after the Marcopper mining incident
Sharon M. Manalac

Occupational health and safety issues in mining industry - an overview
Mumtaz Hussain

Health outcomes of Children exposed to crocidolite at Wittenoom, Western Australia
Alison Reid

Metal and Metalloid Contaminants in Atmospheric Aerosols from Mining Operations
Janae Csavina

Air Pollution
Session Chairs - Dr. Budi Haryanto and Dr. Peter Franklin

Atmospheric Brown Clouds: implications on climate and health
Dr. Daam Settachan

Concentration of polcyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in indoor and outdoor air in different seasons of rural India
Ajay Taneja

Review of soil remediation technologies through patent analysis
Gavin Pereira

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in China - from emission to lung-cancer risk
Shu Tao

Dissipation of household pyrethriods pesticide following application in troplical home
Prapat Pentamwa

Impact of transporation on indoor air quality and children’s health
Bijaya Kumar Padhi

Persistent Organic Pollutants/PTS in the Pacific Basin
Session Chairs - Prof. Irma Makaliano and Dr. David Carpenter

Persistent Organic Pollutants: A Poorly Known Challenge to Future Public Health
Dr. Jenny Pronczuk

Environmental and health impact ofglyphosate spraying in north of Ecuador
César Paz-y-Miño

Regional versus local variations of selected organochlorine pesticides and distribution of polychlorinated biphenyles in the atmosphere of coastal and inland cities in India
Paromita Chakraborty

Arctic as an Indicator for Environmental Processes and Effects -a need for global cooperation?
Prof. Jon Øyvind Odland

Arsenic and Heavy Metals
Session Chairs - Prof. Bo Ling and Dr. Kyoung-Woong Kim

Multidisciplinary Strategies for Reducing Arsenic Exposures
Dr. Bill Suk

Personal and Socio-economic characteristics, status of fruit and vegetable intake and health related problems of the peoples in arsenic contaminated regions of Bangladesh
Shamim Ahmed Khan

Alteration in pulmonary structure and function following in utero and early postnatal arsenic exposure
R. Clark Lantz

(Mouse) Strain dependence of lung responses to in utero arsenic exposure
Graeme Zosky

Exposures of Cd, Pb, As to the inbahitants near a non-ferrous metal smelting plant in Guangxi, South China
Tang Zhenzhu

Arsenic Geochemistry and Human Health Issue in Southeast Asia
Dr. Kyoung-Woong Kim

Arsenic Exposure and the Potential Health Impact in the Pacific Basin Countries
Dr. Kathleen McCarty

Acid Sulphate Soils Disturbance, Heavy metals and Human Exposure - Preliminary Investigations
Dr. Andrea Hinwood

Removing old and preventing new sources of arsenic water contamination
Wendell P. Ela

Environmental Exposures in Indigenous Communities
Session Chair - Prof. Peter Sly

Indigenous Health in Canada: Addressing the Inequities Through Research
Professor Malcolm King

Environmental Exposures in Indigenous Communities - Indigenous Health
Ken Wyatt

Environmental Health Issues and Vulverable groups in Latin America - Do we need a new agenda?
Presentation given by Professor Peter Sly on behalf of Professor Fernando Diaz-Barriga

PCBs and Pesticides in Alaskan Native and Native American Communities: Routes of Exposure and Health Effects
Dr. David Carpenter

Children’s Environmental Health and Climate Issues
Session Chairs - Dr. Jenny Pronczuk and Ms. Tania Gavidia

Jatropha curcas: Its Potentials and Threats
Dr. Irma Makalinao

National birth cohort study on children’s health and environment in Japan
Fujio Kayama

Impacts of climate change and local adaptation strategies of various soceoeconomic groups in Isabela, Northen Philippines
Eileen C. Bernardo

The impact of climate factors on the prevalence of dengue fever in Cairns and Townsville, North Queensland, Australia
Amalya

The changing of Pandanus Amaryllifolius’ effectiveness as larvacide for Aedes Aegypti after climate change
Yunita

Managing Climate Risks in the Pacific Region: Why Science Alone Won’t Solve the Climate Crisis
Melissa L. Finucane

Biofuels and Carbon Reduction Technology
Session Chairs - Dr. Mariano Cebrian and Dr. Peter Franklin

Biofuels, air quality, and human health
Dr Tom Beer

Viable development of new and renewable energy generation to control carbon emmissions from power plants in India
Siva Sakthi Raj R

Development and characterisation of a murine model of diesel exhaust particle exposure and its effects on lung function
Catherine Boylen

Carbon Capture and Storage in Australia
David Hilditch