Inaugural Conferences June 2009

ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH THROUGH A POVERTY LENS

In June 2009 the Network held two inaugural conference events, under the joint title Environment and Health Through a Poverty Lens.

E-conference 10-23 June, web-based

Symposium 15-17 June, held at University of East Anglia, UK

The parallel conferences formed an opportunity to discuss the critical linkages between environment, health and development, explore different research approaches and their analytical value, identify research priorities and shape ongoing plans for the Network.

Outputs from the conferences comprise: a summary report synthesizing discussions across the two conferences; a detailed report of the symposium proceedings; and a report on the e-conference contributions. These are accessible below:

Conferences Summary

Symposium Report

E-conference Report

EHDnet symposium participants

Symposium presentations

Copies of the following presentations from the Symposium have kindly been made available (please note that photographic slides from some of the presentations have been removed in order to reduce download times):

‘Connecting environment, health, and development: the case of urban African slums’	Jonathan D. Mayer
‘Environment, health, poverty: research to action to face challenges in Bangladesh’	Abbas Bhuiya
‘Nutrition, health and environmental issues in a country in transition, Morocco’	Sabah Benjelloun
‘Impact of deforestation on malnutrition and child mortality in poverty affected tribal belt in western part of India’	Nagesh Tekale
‘Micronutrient deficiency in maternity and child health in Malawi: exploring agricultural, medical and social influences on Fe and Zn deficiencies’	Andrew Hursthouse
‘Vulnerability to the health impacts of climatic hazards’	Roger Few
‘Equity, health and environment: the Indian scenario’	Kunniseri Vaidyanathan
‘Health security and disaster resilience’	Andrew Collins
‘Arsenic poisoning and health behaviour in rural Bangladesh: an empirical study’	Bimal Kanti Paul
‘Malaria control and poor: generating adaptive environment through proactive public’	Soorya Vennila Jeganathan
‘The impact of agricultural practices on environmental health: a comparative analysis in India’	Atanu Sarkar
‘Methodology for integrated environment and health assessment in Latin America and the Caribbean (GEO Health)’	Ana Rosa Moreno
‘Environmental threats to children: focus on lack of safe water and sanitation’	Tarek Hussain
[Emerging Health Threats Forum]	Anita Makri
[Enhancing Learning & Research for Humanitarian Assistance (ELRHA)]	Jess Camburn
‘Environmental justice and a long term perspective on environmental health transitions’	Gordon McGranahan
‘Resilience and adaptive capacity: integrating environment, health and development’	Kate Brown
‘Fatal neglect: how health systems are failing to comprehensively address child mortality’	Ian Ross
‘Exclusionary urbanisation and environmental health: a case study of peri-urban water management in India’	Fiona Marshall
‘Interdisciplinary research: experiences from a study of micronutrient deficiencies in Malawi'	Natalie Dickinson
‘Inter-disciplinary research challenges: an epidemiological perspective. Thoughts bearing on collaboration (TBC)’	Paul Wilkinson
‘Integration in practice: challenges for research and policy’	Meg Huby
[Economic and Social Research Council]	Paul Rouse
[DelPHE, British Council]	Stephen Dunnett
‘SSRC China Environment and Health Initiative’	Jennifer Holdaway

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