Welcome 
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
On behalf of the Pacific Basin Consortium for Environment and Health (PBC) 2009 organising committee it gives me great pleasure to invite you to our 13th International Conference to be held in Perth, Western Australia. The conference will run for 3 days from the 20th-22nd November 2009.
The PBC Conference provides a unique forum where scientists and medical professionals from around the world have the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas and information in the field of environmental health and climate change.
The objectives of the conference are to:
- Present research related to characterisation and sources of environmental pollutants, human exposure to pollutants and the health effects of exposure
- Describe advances in reducing the generation of hazardous chemical pollutants, methods for destroying or capturing them and technology for remediating contaminated soils and ground water,
- Increase interdisciplinary and international cooperation in understanding and addressing threats to human and environmental health in the region,
- Motivate discussion of risks to human and environmental health within a larger context which addresses issues of equity, poverty, development and sustainability,
- Encourage student and young scientist participation, and
- Offer training opportunities in areas related to protection of health and the environment.
Specific topic areas expected to be covered in plenary sessions, technical sessions and a poster session at the conference include: health effects of persistent organic pollutants in the environment; genotoxic effects and remediation; water conservation, recycling and remediation; hazardous waste management and health; indoor and outdoor air pollution and health; children’s environmental health; water pollution and health; bioremediation and environmental health and vulnerable populations.
Professor Peter D. Sly
PBC Chair
