Symposium Announcement and Call for Abstracts
NCP / AMAP Symposium on Human Health and Arctic Environmental Contaminants
Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada
10-12 June 2009
Poster Abstract Submission Deadline: Friday, 1 May 2009
For further information, including information on abstract submission,
please go to: http://www.amap.no/conferences/hhsymposium2009/
Or contact:
Tara Leech
Email: tara_leech [at] hc-sc.gc.ca
The Northern Contaminants Program (NCP) and Arctic Monitoring Assessment
Program (AMAP) are hosting a joint symposium in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada
from 10-12 June 2009. The results of the two assessments on human health
effects of environmental contaminants during the past 6 years will be
presented and discussed, engaging health professionals, indigenous and
local people, scientists, policy-makers, and young scientists. Local
indigenous perspectives on contaminants and health will be addressed, as
well as human exposure to environmental contaminants, health effects
studies, plus risk-benefit assessment, and communication.
Participants are also invited to submit abstracts for poster
presentations and will be given the opportunity for short oral plenary
presentations of these. Proposals for poster sessions should be
submitted in the form of an abstract (max 300 words) no later than
Friday, 1 May 2009.
To (provisionally) register your interest in attending the symposium, to
submit an abstract, or for further information please contact:
Tara Leech
Health Canada
Email: tara_leech [at] hc-sc.gc.ca
Phone: 613-960-1789
Fax: 613-948-8485
Please visit the conference website at:
http://www.amap.no/conferences/hhsymposium2009/.