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Sponsors of the IFEH
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World Environmental Health Day, President of the International Fedreation of Environmental Health - IFEH, Dr. Henroy Scarlett has sent this message to all. Look up the message of the IFEH President: Further information about the WEHD 2023 an how to contribute can be found on: www.ifeh.org/wehd 16.09.2023 |
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Report from NEHA representation at workshop on EH in Accra, Ghana David Dyjack, CEO NEHA, has participated as invited speaker at a workshop in Accra, Ghana arranged by Ensign Global College, Ghana. 08.09.2023 |
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IFEH World Congress 2024 The 17th IFEH World Congress on Environmental Health will be hosted in Perth, Western Australia, on 20 - 24 May 2024 by EHA - Environmental Health Astralia. Perth is the capital city of Western Australia. Both EHA and IFEH are looking forward to welcoming you to the IFEH World Congress in Perth by May 2024. The conference venue will be the Pan Pacific, Perth. The EHA organizing committee has sent out a call for papers to be presented at the IFEH World Congress on Environmental Health. Look up further details on how to participate and how to submit papers for the congress at the congress website: Information from the IFEH on the Congress can be found on this page:
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Wildfire Response
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ONE HEALTH
LOOK UP THE CONFERENCE
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World Environmental Health Day 2023
Theme for the 2023 Follow WEHD 2023 activities and how to contribute:
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IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC has by March 20, 2023 released: AR6 Synthesis Report, Climate Change 2023.
The Synthesis Report is based on the content of the three Working Groups Assessment Reports: WGI – The Physical Science Basis, WGII – Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, WGIII – Mitigation of Climate Change, and the three Special Reports: Global Warming of 1.5°C, Climate Change and Land, The Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate.
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Review of the UN’s disaster prevention framework The International Science Council (ISC) has finalized a mid-term review of the UN’s disaster prevention framework (2015-2030). The ISC in the review has found that a lack of long-term planning and investment has put the world off track for reducing the impact of shocks and hazards by 2030. The IFEH is upholding a formal partnership with the UNDRR - United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. The partnership is on Science and Technology - S&T Partnership.
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Update from NEHA NEHA Annual Report NEHA webinar
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IFEH 2024 World Congress on Environmental Health Link to expression of interest: Link to flyer for the Congress
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IFEH Magazine 08.02.2023 |
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IFEH World Congress on Environmental Health The 16th IFEH World Congress on Environmental Health 2022 hosted by The Malaysian Association of Environmetal Health- MAEH - was a great success. The IFEH wants to thank the organizor MAEH of this great event which attracted speakers and partioners from the whole globe to discuss important matters on EH in regard to Climate Change which is affecting all lives and in partiular the effects of COVID-19 pandemic.
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During the latest 2 years Prof. Susana Paixao in her IFEH presidency has among other of her presidential duties worked tiredless to engage with the UN WHO and also to engage with UN COP meetings on Climate Change in order to get environmetal health even more integrated in the overall agenda. 08.09.2022
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New IFEH President Dr. Henroy Scarlett (Jamaica Association of Public Health Inspectors) took over as new IFEH President at the Kuala Lumpur IFEH meeting. The IFEH congratulates Dr. Henroy Scarlett in his new position. Dr. Henroy Scarlett who the previous 2 years has been President Elect will hold the IFEH Presidency until 2024.
Look up a short Bio of Henoy Scarlett 08.09.2022
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New IFEH President Elect Dr. Bruno Cvetkovic (Croatian Chamber of Health Professionals) - was elected as new IFEH President Elect at the Kuala Lumpur IFEH meeting. The IFEH congratulates Dr. Bruno Cvetkovic in his new position. Dr. Bruno Cvetkovic will serve as President Elect until 2024 at which time he will take seat as IFEH President to serve in the period 2024 - 2026.
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New IFEH Honorary Secretary Mr. David Nemakonde (South African Institute of Environmental Health) was elected as new Hon. Secretary of the IFEH. The IFEH congratulates Mr. David Nemakonde in his new position.
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IFEH ERIC FOSKETT AWARD At every IFEH World Congress the IFEH Eric Foskett award is presented a person inside the IFEH who has done an outstanding effort in regard to all the ideas that the IFEH is based upon. This year Eric Foskett Award has been awarded: 08.09.2022
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IFEH ROY EMERSON AWARD The winner of IFEH Roy Emerson Essay Award 2022 was Emmauel Kakraba, Ghana Emmanuel Kakraba is a student and holds a Second year Diploma (2022) in Environmental Health Student School of Hygiene, HO, MOH, Ghana. Look up the winning essay by Emmanuel Kakraba 08.09.2022
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Statement to the 75th WHO World Health Assembly
Through IFEH partnership with the World Federation of Public Health Associations (WHPHA) the IFEH by the IFEH president has contributed with important messages regarding EH in the statement brought forward by WHPHA supported by IFEH to the
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IFEH Magazine 24.05.2022 |
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16th IFEH World Congress on Environmental Health
The IFEH 16th World Congress on Environmental Health is now open for call for abstracts and registration for participation.
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Update from IFEH participation at COP26 The World Health Organization (WHO), in close collaboration with the Research Subcommittee of the WHO-Civil Society Working Group to Advance Action on Climate and Health, which IFEH is part of, attempted to map out the trends and gaps in current research on climate and health over the past decade by implementing a comprehensive review of existing literature in this area. This exercise provided an overview of the current state of knowledge on climate and health, as well as geographic distribution of the studies, and outlined the new emerging fields of research.This report also presents recommendations for future research, with the aim of improving the evidence base for policies to protect health from climate change. It serves as an update of the WHO publication "Protecting health from climate change: global research priorities” released in 2009, and was launched today, November 9, at the WHO pavilion at COP26, where IFEH was represented by its President Professor Susana Paixão and Secretary Mr. Martin Fitzpatrick. WHO has informed the IFEH and others that joined for the WHO 2021
Global Conference on Health and Climate Change in connection with COP 26 that recordings of the
2021 Global Conference on Health and Climate change are now available from here:
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Portrait of the Environmental Health Profession NEHA (National Environmental Health Association-US) has produced a short film movie which very briefly describes the manifold of responsibilities relying with the EH profession - and why EH professionals are important.
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Re-visit the very succesful World Academic Conference on Environmental Health hosted by Tartu Health Care College, Estonia, very succesfully and professionally conducted on-line the 4th World Academic Conference on EH 4 - 6 May 2021.
Did you miss the Conference? Or do you want to re-visit the whole or parts of the conference? Well, Tartu Health Care College has now made it possible for you to re-visit the Conference:
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CIEH Environmental health workforce survey report CIEH - Chartered Institute of Environmental Health - has conducted a survey for England on the environmental health workforce. While in its nature focused on England, the methodology and their findings contain interesting aspects that could well have relevance beyond the border.
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Podcast on Environmental Health This is the second and final episode in the two-part series on environmental health (broadcasted March 9 2021) as described in the IFEH news message 25.02.2021 (see below). Select the link below to listen!
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International Women’s Day 2021
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Press Release
On February 11, 2021, the World Federation of Public Health Associations hosted a historic meeting to initiate a coalition amongst leaders from international NGOs who share a common interest in equitable access for vaccines and treatment during COVID-19. All these organizations, including the IFEH, call on the World Health Assembly, the G20, every government, and all organizations that engage in public health, social policy, and advocacy to make the ethical choice now for the health and the economic well-being of all populations globally, especially the most vulnerable — leaving no one behind. Select the link below to read the full statement
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Podcast on Environmental Health
30 minute interview with Dr David Dyjack and Jesse Bliss from the NEHA exploring the global environmental health work force-questions asked by Ellis Turner, Environmental Health Lecturer, University of the West of England (UWE Bristol UK) Select the link below to listen!
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Podcast on Environmental Health
Representatives of NEHA are participating in two podcasts on environmental health. The first episode in this two-part series is titled: "Introduction to the Role of Environmental Health in Local Communities." Guests include Dr. David Dyjack, Executive Director at the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA); Jesse Bliss - Director of Programs and Partnerships at NEHA; and Tim Hatch, Assistant Administrator at the Alabama Department of Public Health (East Central District). In this episode, they discuss what exactly the environmental health field contains, the many types of responsibilities of environmental health professionals, and the role environmental health professionals play during a disaster. Select the link below to listen!
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How can Environmental Health Practitioners contribute to ensure population safety and health during the COVID-19 pandemic? In a great article published through Elsevier - Safety Science, Volume 136, April 2021, the role of Environmental Health Practitioners (EHPs) during pandemic is discussed. The article is authored by researchers and EH professionals from several parts of the World - and many of those are well known in the IFEH community.
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