IFEH Magazine



IFEH
Disaster Risk Reduction Committee


IFEH is a member of the UNDRR - United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - partnership on Science and Technology

All IFEH members are welcomed to participate.


Photo courtesy: CDC/ Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAMS










Sponsor of the IFEH Hedgerow Bursary
Link



Sponsors of the IFEH
Roy Emerson Award

Link



IFEH World Congress 2022

23 - 25 August 2022
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Was kindly hosted by:
Malaysian Association of Environmental Health



Early bird registration for the World Congress on Environmental Health 2024
Call for Speakers closing soon




The organizer Environmental Health Australia has informed that
Early bird registrations for the 17th IFEH World Congress on Environmental Health, to be held in Perth, Australia on 20-24 May 2024, are now open!

Registrations can be completed on the congress website https://www.wceh2024perth.com/

Early bird pricing is available until Friday, 9 February 2024 (GMT+8).
See the full list of registrations fees

The 2024 IFEH World Congress will have a diverse program under the theme Environmental Health In The New Era.

Call for Speakers closing soon!
Call for Speakers closing soon – 8 December 2023 (GMT+8).  Submit your abstract by 7 December to ensure it makes the cut-off.

Look Up Call for Speakers Flyer
Look up the World Congress Topic Scopes

26.11.2023



IFEH Magazine
Environment & Health International



The IFEH Magazine
Environment & Health International
October 2023 Edition is now available.

Look up the IFEH Magazine

20.10.2023



World Environmental Health Day,
26 September 2023


Message from the IFEH President

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:
Link

Further information about the WEHD 2023 an how to contribute can be found on: www.ifeh.org/wehd

16.09.2023



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.

David Dyjack has produced a short outline of his participation and most importantly a brief description of the EH challenges in Ghana - and why international co-operation is important.

Look up his interesting report on the NEHA website:
Link

08.09.2023



IFEH World Congress 2024
Call for papers

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 tittle of the Conference is: Environmental Health In The New Era

The EHA organizing committee has sent out a call for papers to be presented at the IFEH World Congress on Environmental Health.
Deadline for submissions is: Friday, 8th December 2023 (GMT +8)

Look up further details on how to participate and how to submit papers for the congress at the congress website:
Link: https://www.wceh2024perth.com

Information from the IFEH on the Congress can be found on this page:
Link


05.04.2023




Wildfire Response
Guide for Environmental Public Health Professionals

NEHA - National Environmental Health Assiciation (US) has released a new Wildfire guide for EHOs

Even though the guide naturally has its offset in US settings - the guide provides lots of important information, guidance and systematics which can be relevant to all parts of the Globe where such disasters occur.

The full guide is available from the NEHA website
Link

Wildfire Response
Guide for Environmental Public Health Professionals
NEHA - 2023


12.07.2023



 

ONE HEALTH
One Global Environment
Conference


ORGANIZED BY:
IFEH Americas Region

CIPHI (Canada); JAPHI (Jamaica);
NEHA (USA).

HOSTED BY JAPHI.

LOOK UP THE FLYER

LOOK UP THE CONFERENCE
WEBSITE:
onehealthconference.com

 

 

 

17.04.2023



World Environmental Health Day 2023
26 September

Message from the IFEH President Dr Henroy Scarlett
addressing World Environmental Health Day 2023

Link

Theme for the 2023
World Environmental Health Day:


Global Environmental Public Health:
Standing up to protect everyone's Health each and every day

Follow WEHD 2023 activities and how to contribute:
www.ifeh.org/wehd

Further information about the theme of 2023


05.04.2023




IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6)

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC has by March 20, 2023 released: AR6 Synthesis Report, Climate Change 2023.

Link to the report: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/

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.

An overview of the reports can be found here:
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-cycle/

30.03.2023



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 ISC report is a contribution to the Mid-Term Review (MTR) process led by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR).

The full report can be downloaded directly from this
link
Further summarizing details etc can be found through this link

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.

30.03.2023



Update from NEHA

NEHA Annual Report
The NEHA has published their Fiscal Year 2022 Annual Report. This report summarizes the activities of NEHA from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022.
Link

NEHA webinar
NEHA has provided access for all interested to their Nail Salon Webinar. This 1-hour program describes the environmental health, occupational health and social determinants of health related to the blossoming global nail salon industry.

Watch the webinar on YouTube through this link.

30.03.2023



IFEH 2024 World Congress on Environmental Health
Perth, Western Australia
20 – 24 May, 2024


Link to the congress video on YouTube:
Welcome to Western Australia -
17th IFEH World Congress

Link to expression of interest:
2024 IFEH World Congress - Environmental Health Australia (Western Australia) Inc (ehawa.org.au)

Link to flyer for the Congress

26.02.2023



IFEH Magazine
Environment & Health International



The IFEH Magazine
Environment & Health International
January 2023 Edition is now available.

Look up the IFEH Magazine

08.02.2023



IFEH World Congress on Environmental Health
Kuala Lumpur 2022

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.


08.09.2022


Handover of IFEH Presidency


Prof. Susana
Paixao - outgoing IFEH President (Portugal) is passing over the IFEH Precidency to Dr. Henroy Scarlett (Jamaica).

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



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.


Dr. Henroy Scarlett

Look up a short Bio of Henoy Scarlett

08.09.2022



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.


Dr. Bruno Cvetkovic

08.09.2022



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.


Mr. David Nemakonde

08.09.2022



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:
Dr. Selva Mudaly , South Afracian Institute of Environmental Health


Dr. Selva Mudaly
Hon Vice President IFEH

Read about the nomination

08.09.2022



IFEH ROY EMERSON AWARD

The winner of IFEH Roy Emerson Essay Award 2022 was Emmauel Kakraba, Ghana


Emmanuel Kakraba

Emmanuel Kakraba is a student and holds a Second year Diploma (2022) in Environmental Health Student School of Hygiene, HO, MOH, Ghana.
He responded to the IFEH call for an essay on this year's topic :
“Strengthening Environmental Health Systems for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals”” and won the price which included a free travel and stay at the IFEH World Congress - and giving a presentation on the topic.

Look up the winning essay by Emmanuel Kakraba

08.09.2022



Statement to the 75th WHO World Health Assembly
WHA75

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
WHO World Health Assembly (WHA75)
taking place in Geneva 22 - 28 May 2022

Look up the WHPHA statement supported by IFEH

Look up all Statements by non-State actors in official relations with WHO at the WHO governing bodies meetings
(WHA75 Constituency Statmements)

Look up further info about the WHO World Health Assembly
The theme of this year’s WHO Health Assembly is:
Health for peace, peace for health.


24.05.2022



IFEH Magazine
Environment & Health International



The IFEH Magazine
Environment & Health International
April 2022 Edition is now available.

Look up the IFEH Magazine

24.05.2022



16th IFEH World Congress on Environmental Health
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 23 - 25 August 2022



The IFEH 16th World Congress on Environmental Health is now open for call for abstracts and registration for participation.
The 2022 IFEH World Congress is kindly hosted by the
Malaysian Association of Environmental Health - MAEH.

Look up the formal Congress website for further info

Look up the poster for the Congress

Look up further info on the IFEH website


28.04.2022



IFEH President Statement



06.03.2022



IFEH Magazine
Environment & Health International



The IFEH Magazine
Environment & Health International
December 2021 Edition is now available.

Look up the IFEH Magazine

30.12.2021



Update from IFEH participation at COP26
(as of 09.11.2021 and updated by 16.01.2022)

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.
Download the report from the WHO website


Recordings from the WHO 2021 Global Conference on Health and Climate Change
(amended to the IFEH update by 16.01.2022)

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:
Recordings from the 2021 Global Climate and Health Conference



09.11.2021 / updated 16.01.2022



Portrait of the Environmental Health Profession

(Now in Spanish as well as English version)

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.

Look up movie (YouTube) (English version)

Look up movie (YouTube) (Spanish version)


01.11.2021 / 20.07.2021




Re-visit the very succesful World Academic Conference on Environmental Health hosted by
Tartu Health Care College

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:
From this page you can find all relevant links

17.05.2021



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.

Look up the full report:
Environmental health workforce survey report: local authorities in England

Look up an overview of CIEH key findings and recommendations

Look up CIEH Press Release


03.05.2021




Podcast on Environmental Health
Environmental Health: Challenges of the Profession
and COVID Response

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!
Link to the Podcast #2 of 2


10.03.2021




International Women’s Day 2021

IFEH President prof. Susana Paixão has sent a video message in connection with
International Women's Day 2021 March 8



Watch the video message from the IFEH President


08.03.2021




Press Release

Coalition of International NGOs including the IFEH
call for Equitable access for vaccines and treatment during COVID-19 pandemic

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
Press Release - full statement


04.03.2021




Podcast on Environmental Health
Environmental Health Global work force

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!
Link to the Podcast


04.03.2021




Podcast on Environmental Health
Environmental health emergency preparedness and response

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.

The second and final episode in this series will air Tuesday, March 9, 2021 - titled:
Environmental Health: Challenges of the Profession and COVID Response

Select the link below to listen!
Link to the Podcast #1 of 2


25.02.2021 / 10.03.2021




IFEH Statement
Statement on Universality of Vaccine Distribution

The President of the IFEH Prof. Susana Paixão has issued a statement on the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine.


Look up the IFEH Statement


20.01.2021




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.

Look up the article (link to Elsevier ScienceDirect)


08.01.2021




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