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PROGRAMME OF EVENTSA5 | SYMPOSIAIntegrating Ecohealth and watershed management approaches:potential and progressChair: Martin J. Bunch, York University, Canada Priorities and state of the art in integrating ecohealth and watershedmanagement approaches - Martin J. Bunch, York University, Canada Links between the wise use of wetlands and poverty alleviation- Pierre Horwitz, Edith Cowan University, Australia Integrated Enteric Disease Surveillance, QMRA and EcosystemHealth: How does it all fit together? - A Canadian perspective -David Waltner-Toews, University of Guelph, CanadaA6 | SYMPOSIAROSEBRADFORDInnovative community-centred Dengue vector control in urbanecosystems in Asia: preliminary results of the research initiativeon eco-bio-social research on Dengue in South East Asia (India,Indonesia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand and the Philippines)Chair: Johannes Sommerfeld, TDRCo-chair: Olaf R Horstick, Special Programme for Research and Trainingin Tropical Diseases, World Health Organisation The concept of eco-bio-social research and the researchframework/methodology adopted by the multi-country studyPat Kittayapong, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand Site-specific approaches to community-centred dengue vectorcontrol, results from the situation analysis - Fe Espino,Department of Parasitology Research Institute for Tropical MedicineFCC; Manila, The Philippines Preliminary results of the implementation - Natarajan Arunachalam,Centre for Research in Medical Entomology, Madurai, Tamil Nadu,India & Susilowati Tana, Center for Health Policy and Social Change,Yogyakarta, Indonesia Research-to-Policy linkages - Wimaladharma Abeyewickreme,Department of Parasitology and Molecular Medicine Unit, Faculty ofMedicine, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka1.10 Lunch, exhibition and attended poster sessionEcoHealth Journal Executive Editorial Board Meeting2.30-4.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS BB1 | PAPERSIndigenous peoples and minority perspectives on biodiversityChair: Carolyn Stephens, IAEH As sacred as cedar and salmon: understanding the meaning of'resources' - perspectives from Huu-Ay-Aht first nation, BritishColumbia - Heather Castleden, Dalhousie University, School forResource and Environmental Studies, Halifax, Canada Heavy metas in indigenous communities of the Corrientes riverbasin - Peru. What are the sources? - Cynthia Anticona, UmeaUniversity, Sweden, Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Lima, Peru "Re/presenting" indigenous health: the intertwining of ethics andmethodology - Coll Hutchison, LSHTM, UK "Ain't Gots No Skidoo": Social class, Differential Access toResources and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) in aLabrador Inuit Community - Joshua Moses, Graduate Center CityUniversity of New York, USAB2 | PAPERSROSECURTISHazards from miningChair: TBC Current scenarios of human exposure to metals in mining in thewestern Brazilian Amazon -Sandra Hacon, FIOCRUZ, Endemias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Eight years of research using ecohealth approach in the Molangomining region, Mexico: Lessons learned - Horacio Riojas-Rodriguez,Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica, Salud Ambiental, Cuernavaca, Mexico Gold mining reducing mercury methylation? An example fromSouthern Equador - Jean Remy Guimaraes, Universidade Federal do Riode Janeiro, Brazil Small-scale Gold Mining: Seasonal variations and metalcontamination in Puyango River Basin - Ecuador - Jean RemyGuimaraes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Perception of health in the cassiterite mining of Bom Futuro,western Brazilian Amazon - Ludmilla Jacobson, BrazilB3 | PAPERSZoonotic diseasesChair: Peter Daszak, IAEH Biological and social dimensions of human-primate interactionand disease transmission in UgandaTony Goldberg, University of Wisconsin, USA Local knowledge and perception of zoonotic disease risk inWestern Uganda - Sarah Paige, University of Washington, Seattle, USA Yaws, an emerging zoonosis in gorillas?Aubrey Tauer, Lincoln Park Zoo, Davee Center for Epidemiology andEndocrinology, Chicago, USA The most important zoonosis in the worldJeff Gilbert, Project Coordinator, International Livestock ResearchInstitute, Lao People's Democratic Republic Equipping epidemiological research to study environmentalinfluences on zoonotic diseases from bats in AustraliaRo McFarlane, Australian National University, National Centre forEpidemiology and Population Health, Hall, AustraliaB4 | PAPERSJOHN SNOWMANSONEnvironmental justiceChair: David Waltner-Toews, University of Guelph, Canada A Systematic Review of the Literature on Environmental Justice:What about Ecological Integrity? - Aelita Neimanis, DalhousieUniversity, Halifax, Canada Linking Nature and Human Well Being to Drive Climate Action:the view from California - Louis Blumberg, The Nature Conservancy,California, USA Climate Justice in relation to Adaptation and Ecohealth inSouthern South Asia - Lareef Zubair, Foundation for EnvironmentClimate & Technology, Rajawella, Sri Lanka4

Global Ecohealth Challenges; Multiple PerspectivesPROGRAMME OF EVENTSB5 | SYMPOSIAResilience thinking and eco-healthChair: Marta Berbés-Blázquez, York University, Canada, (CoPEH-CAN) A network perspective to ecohealth approaches and resiliencethinking - Frédéric Mertens, Universidade de Brasília; Brazil On conflict, cooperation and resilience in Costa Rican ecohealtheducation policy - Álvaro Fernández, Universidad de Costa Rica,Costa RicaB6 | PANELLUCASBENNETTOne Health: The potential of closer cooperation of human andanimal healthChair: Jakob Zinsstag, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute From “one health” to health in social-ecological systemsJakob Zinsstag, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute “One health” a vision from the SouthBassirou Bonfoh, Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d'Ivoire “One health” the potential of closer cooperation betweenhuman and animal health in industrialized countries - AndreaMeisser, Swiss Tropical and Public Health InstituteB7 | PANELBRADFORDMulti-sectoral and multi-disciplinary regional collaborativeresearch to understand avian influenza policies in AsianChair: Frank Wenjun Liu, Director, Center for Molecular Virology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy ofSciences, Beijing, China Similarities and differences of AI policies and their impactson backyard and small producers - Wang Libin, Professor,College of Humanities and Development, China AgriculturalUniversity, Beijing, China How avian influenza policies were implemented by farmer'perspectives - Kreingkrai Choprakarn, Department of Animal Science,Faculty of Agriculture, Ubon Ratchanthani University Effectiveness of the policies for Avian Influenza - Suwit Chotinun,Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, ChiangMai University, Thailand How policies for Avian Influenza were formulatedWiku Adisasmito, Department of Health Policy & Administration,Faculty of Public Health, University of Indonesia4.00 Refreshments, exhibition and poster sessionPLENARY SESSION 2: Youth Perspectives4.30 PANEL DEBATEChair: Carolyn Stephens, LSHTM Nelson Sivalingam, young filmmaker and activist Stephen Spencer, Student Biologist, Aston University, Birmingham Hilda Zara, Phd Student, Venezuela (Inverness)JOHN SNOW LECTURE THEATRE6.00 Conference reception and attended poster sessionPress conference and launch of declaration6.30 Additional receptionsStudent section AGM, reception and World Cafe - AtriumMeet the Editors and Publishers of the journal EcoHealth - Reception7.30 Social events or site visits Guided walking and history tour around local area of Bloomsbury (ticket only) Departs LSHTM at 7.30pm5

PROGRAMME OF EVENTSTHURSDAY 19 AUGUST8.00 Registration, refreshments, exhibition and poster sessionPLENARY SESSION 3: Biodiversity and EcoHealth9:00 Chair's introductionPeter Daszak, President, Wildlife Trust, USA9:10 Keynote 1- From gorillas to bats: health threats to biodiversityJonathan Sleeman, Director of the USA Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center, USA9:30 Keynote 2 Ecological correlates of wild life diseasesMilind Watve, Professor, Indian institute of Science Education and Research, Delhi, India9:50 Keynote 3 Future malaria risk: will the UK be affected?Steve Lindsay, Professor of Public Health Entomology, LSHTM, UK10:10 Keynote 4: Food chains the long and the short of itRaul Montenegro, Professor of Evolutionary Biology, University of Cordoba, Argentina10.30 Discussion10.40 Refreshments, exhibition and attended poster session11.10-12.40 PARALLEL SESSIONS CJOHN SNOW LECTURE THEATREC1 | PANELEcohealth, One Health and the value of integrated approachesto sustainable healthChair: Sarah Olson, IAEH One Health Approach to Global Health Challenges and Trainingof Future Leaders - Patricia Conrad, University of California, Davis,VM:PMI, Woodland, USA Linking human, animal and ecosystem health in Madagascar: Theimportance of a One Health perspective - Meredith Barrett, DukeUniversity, University Program in Ecology, Durham, USA Examining the Links Between Anthropogenic Stressors, Biodiversity,and Infectious Diseases: Science to Policy - Montira Pongsiri, US EPA,Washington, USA Difficult Discourses for Public Health: From Anthropocentrism toEcocentrism Implications for Global Public Health - Giselle Corincigh,Brunel University, School of Health Sciences and Social Care London, UK Ecosystems, change processes & the human sustainabilitydilemma! - Mary McIntyre, University of Otago Wellington, PublicHealth, Wellington, New ZealandC2 | PAPERSDengue Fever: assessing prevention strategies….Chair: Sophie Vanwambeke, IAEH The use of a teaching sequence in educational processes for dengueprevention - Yoseth Ariza-Araújo, Universidad del Valle, Escuela de SaludPública. Grupo Epidemiología y Salud Poblacional, Bogotá DC, Colombia Knowledge and perceptions of responsibility for prevention andcontrol of dengue in Cali - Colombia - Yoseth Ariza-Araújo,Universidad del Valle, Escuela de Salud Pública. Grupo Epidemiología ySalud Poblacional, Bogotá DC, Colombia Vulnerability assessment of climate variability on dengue vectorsand epidemiology in Malaysia - Rozita Hod, National University ofMalaysia (UKM), Environmental Health Program, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Effectiveness of Dengue Prevention through CommunityParticipation and Environment Friendly Solid-wasteManagement: Sri Lankan Experience - Kankanige Karunathilake,University of Kelaniya, Department of Sociology, Kelaniya, Sri LankaC3 | PAPERSMANSONCURTISROSEEcohealth in the policy arenaChair: Bruce Wilcox, IAEH How can natural scientists be active participants in ecosystemapproaches to human health? - Céline Surette, Université deMoncton, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Monton, Canada Adapting the DPSEEA model to orient participatory action researchand guide eco-health interventions - Jerry Spiegel, University of BritishColumbia, Liu Institute for Global Issues, Vancouver, Canada Ecohealth and the philosophy of science - Karen Houle, AssociateProfessor in Philosophy, University of Guelph, Canada Ecological thinking in the United Kingdom's Public HealthOrganisations:The relationship between policy and practiceMaya Gislason, University of Sussex, UK People's Knowledge System and Ecohealth - common aims andapproach - Reetu Sogani, independent consultant, independentconsultant, Gurgoan, India (tbc)C4 | SYMPOSIAConvention on BioDiversity Indicators for EcoHealth: the 2010biodiversity indicators on human well-beingChair: Tristan Tyrrell, UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre; Health & well-being of communities directly dependent onlocal ecosystem goods & services - Monica Hernandez Morcillo,UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre; Biodiversity for food & medicine - Thomasina Oldfield, TRAFFICInternational; Indigenous peoples' well-being - Maurizio Fahran Ferrari, ForestPeoples Programme Living Planet Report: Using the Living Planet Index and theEcological Footprint to measure human well-being and ecologicalresource constraints - Louise McRae, Zoological Society of LondonC5 | SYMPOSIAClimate change and infection diseasesChair: Jan Semenza, Senior Expert, Scientific Advice, European Centrefor Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden ECDC activities on climate change and infectious diseases inEurope - Jan Semenza, European Centre for Disease Prevention andControl (ECDC), Sweden Dengue risk maps - David Rogers, Museum of Natural History, OxfordUniversity; Climate change and Lyme disease in CanadaNick Ogden, Public Health Agency of Canada; Climate change and water-borne diseases in the USJonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin, USA Climate change impact assessment of infectious diseases -Elisabet Lindgren, Karolinska Institutet, SwedenC6 | PANELLUCASBENNETTBRADFORDEcology, Public Health and the Law - indigenous panel Canada's Sydney Tar Ponds: A Case of Suppression Bias?"Colin Soskolne, Professor, School of Public Health, University ofAlberta, Canada Ecuador vs. Colombia: Constitutional and International Law inDefence of the Health of Local Indigenous PopulationsLaura Westra, Sessional Instructor, Faculty of Law, University ofWindsor, Ontario, Canada Climate Change and Public Health Concerns of The IndigenousPeoples of the Arctic - Brad Morse, New Zealand6

Global Ecohealth Challenges; Multiple PerspectivesPROGRAMME OF EVENTS12.40 Lunch, exhibition and poster session2.00-3.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS DD1 | PAPERSClimate Change and healthChair: Jonathan Patz, IAEH Interactions between human and mosquito responses to achanging climate - Harish Padmanabha, Instituto Nacional de Salud deColombia, Bogota, Colombia Climate change and biodiversity loss associated to the emergenceof tick-borne encephalitis in Italy - Annapaola Rizzoli, Edmund MachFoundation, Environment and natural resources, San Michele all'Adige, Italy Community-based research on adaptation to climate change westof the High Dam Lake, Aswan, Egypt - Ahmed Farouk, Near EastFoundation, Agriculture and New Land Development, Cairo, Egypt Linking Weather, Water Quality, and Health in the Context ofClimate Change in Nunatsiavut, Canada - Sherilee Harper, Universityof Guelph, Department of Population Medicine, Guelph, Canada Dengue fever and climatic factors in the Metropolitan Area ofMedellín, Colombia - Clara Arias, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USAD2 | PAPERSPollutants today - a global perspectiveChair: Alonso Aguirre, IAEH An up-to-date evaluation of air pollution health impacts and costs inSão Paulo, Brazil: a decade overview - Miraglia Simone Georges ElKhouri , Federal University of São Paulo, Osasco, Brazil 'Scaling up' Ecohealth: insights from the political ecology of pesticideexposure in Ecuador's banana industry - Ben Brisbois, University of BritishColumbia, School of Population and Public Health, Carrying Place, Canada Preliminary study of levels of selected persistent organic pollutantsin urban Monrovia, Liberia - Richard Nisbett, College of Public Health,University of South Florida, Department of Global Health, Tampa, USA Mercury distribution in bottom sediments from the PiabanhaRiver Basin, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Ricardo Cesar, Federal FluminenseUniversity, Environmental Geochemistry, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Pathogens, parks and people: community perspectives of diseaseand conservation in Southern Africa - Claire Geoghegan, Universityof Pretoria, South AfricaD3 | PAPERSJOHN SNOWLUCASBRADFORDAvian zoonosesChair: Andrew Cunningham, London Zoo An analysis of the effect of metapopulations of farm types frombackyard birds to industrial farms (CAFOs) on the dynamics of AvianInfluenza outbreaks - Parviez Hosseini, Wildlife Trust, New York, USA Epizootic of beak deformities in Alaskan birds: sentinels ofecosystem health? - Caroline Van Hemert, University of AlaskaFairbanks, Biology and Wildlife, Anchorage, USA Avian biodiversity as a determinant of West Nile NeurologicalSyndrome incidence in Saskatchewan, Canada (2003-2007) -David Roth, University of British Columbia, School of Population andPublic Health, Vancouver, Canada Characteristics and dynamics of backyard poultry raising systemin five Asian countries in relation to the reduction and managementof avian influenza risk - Kreingkrai Choprakarn, UbbonratchathaniUniversity, Animal Science, Ubonratchathani, ThailandD4 | SYMPOSIACommunities of Practice: their role in advancing ecosystemapproaches to healthChair: Ruth Francis, Editor, Nature,UK convened by internationalnetwork of Communities of Practice in Ecosystem Approaches to Health IAEH - Micah Hahn, The International Association for Ecology &Health (IAEH) Student Section CoPEH-Canada - Johanne Saint-Charles, University of Quebec, Montreal COPEH-MENA - Rima Habib, American University of Beirut, Lebanon COPEH-LAC - Horacio Riojas, National Institute of Public Health(INSP), Mexico COPES-AOC - Pascal Valentin Houenou, CoPES-AOC(West Africa) COPEH APEIR - Speaker tbcD5 | PANELEcoHealth and the arts: science, passion, creative expressionChair: Maya K. Gislason, University of Sussex, UK Passion and the hard cold facts: transdisciplinary futures forEcoHealth - David Waltner-Toews, University of Guelph, Canada Poetry in motion: indigenous knowledges, power and health -Carolyn Stephens, LSHTM, London, UK Ecohealth - Coll Hutchison, LSHTM, London, UKD6 | PANELCURTISBENNETTROSEIndigenous perspectives on the relationship between people,land and well-beingCo-chairs: Margo Greenwood, National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health,Canada & Margot Parkes, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada I am the land and the land is me. (Framing Maori Ecology) - HohepaTamehana, Mahitahi Trust - (Maori Mental Health Organization), New Zealand Ka Ora te Whenua, Ka Ora te Tangata (Healthy Lands, HealthyPeople) - Phillipa Pehi, LMK Consultants Ltd People, place and health - Helen Moewaka Barnes, Director, Wharikiresearch Group, Massey University, New Zealand Water, mauri and wellbeing - Benita Wakefield, Post Doc ResearchFellow, Te Manga Maori, Eastern Institute of Technology, Hawke's Bay,New Zealand3.30 Refreshments, exhibition and attended poster sessionPLENARY SESSION 4: Minority and Indigenous PerspectivesJOHN SNOW LECTURE THEATRE4:00 PANEL DEBATE:Chair: Carolyn Stephens, LSHTM Margo Greenwood, Academic Lead, National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health, Adjunct Professor, Northern MedicalProgram, Associate Professor, Education and First Nations Studies programs, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada Jianchu Xu, Professor, Kunming Institute of Botany, China Francesco Chaile, Casique of Quilmes, Tucuman, Argentina (video presentation)5.30 IAEH - Biennial General Meeting & ElectionsHand over to new EcoHealth Editor in Chief7.30 Conference Banquet and Ceilidh - London Zoo Supportded by7

PROGRAMME OF EVENTSFRIDAY 20 AUGUST8.00 Registration, rereshments, exhibition and poster sessionPLENARY SESSION 5: Sustainability and future priorities for Ecohealth9:00 Chair's introductionJonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin, USA9:05 Keynote 1 - Climate change and health: a paradigm shift for public health research and policyRoberto Bertollini, Senior Officer in Environmental Health, WHO Geneva, Switzerland9:25 Keynote 2 - One health & the developing worldNitish Chandra Debnath, Vice-Chancellor, Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (CVASU), Bangladesh9:45 Keynote 3 - Urban sustainabilityJan Semenza, Senior Expert, Scientific Advice, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden10.05 Discussion10.30 Rereshments, exhibition and poster session11.00-12.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS EJOHN SNOW LECTURE THEATREE1 | PAPERSRural Ecohealth challengesChair: Jacob Songsore, Ghana Human-elephant conflict as a major concern of the ruralpopulation living in the buffer zone of Gorongosa National Park,Mozambique - Sam Holzman, Mount Sinai School of Medicine,Department of Emergency Medicine, New York, USA Deforestation as a major ecohealth concern in communitiesliving in the buffer zone of Gorongosa National Park,Mozambique - Sigrid Hahn, Mount Sinai School of Medicine,Department of Emergency Medicine, New York, USA Linking landscape and Nipah Virus spillover: application oflandscape ecology principles to public health research - MicahHahn, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Center for Sustainability andthe Global Environment, Madison, USA Economic development on the periphery: health and socialconditions of Ugandan pastoralist communities bordering LakeMburo National Park - Amber Pearson, University of Canterbury,Christchurch, New ZealandE2 | PAPERSWater resources, health and aquatic ecosystemsChair: Martin Bunch, IAEH Wetlands, ecosystem services and human health - Pierre Horwitz,Edith Cowan University, Consortium for Health and Ecology,Joondalup, Australia The water's edge: landscape epidemiology of small water bodiesfor multipurpose use and conservation - David Bradley, OxfordZoology Department, UK An Ecohealth Approach to Flood Recession (Molapo) Farming toReduce Climate Change Vulnerability in the Okavango Delta,Botswana - Moses Chimbari, University of Botswana, HarryOppenheimer Okavango Research Centre (HOORC), Maun, Botswana From well to fountain: managing diarrhoeal diseases in asettlement of Yopougon (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire) - Brama Koné,Swiss Centre for Scientific Research, Environment and Health, Abidjan,Cote D'IvoireE3 | PAPERSROSEMANSONLUCASEcology of infectious disease transmissionChair: Peter Daszak, IAEH Landscape and tick-borne encephalitis in Sweden: decomposingland cover and land use - Sophie Vanwambeke, Université catholiquede Louvain, Belgium Hydrographic basins and mortality by diarrheal diseases inMexico - Magali Hurtado,, National Institute of Public Health,Environmental Health Department, Cuernavaca, Mexico Understanding anthropogenic influences on disease ecologythrough long-term monitoring: A pilot study - Katharine Pelican,University of Minnesota, Veterinary Population Medicine, St. Paul, USA Australian vector-borne viral diseases: old foes, new threats andchanged ecologies due to human activities - John Mackenzie,Curtin University, Division of Health Sciences, Malvern, Australia Social-ecological consequences of infectious disease epidemicsand indigenous cultural-demographic collapse - Bruce A Wilcox,Global Health Program, Office of Public Health Studies, University ofHawaii, Honolulu, USAE4 | PAPERSVideo: Public Health and EcohealthChair: Jakob Zinsstag, IAEH Is progress always progressive? Addressing the environmental,social, health and economic concerns of women who make theirliving from solid waste disposal sites in Ecuador - a multimediapresentation - Annalee Yassi, University of British Columbia, Collegefor Interdisciplinary Studies, Vancouver, Canada Designing transdisciplinary approach to identify unintendedconsequences in development projects: the case of Ruhiira,Uganda - Shai Andre Divon, Norwegian University of Life Sciences,Department of International Environment and Development Studies,Aas, Norway Human carrying capacity: a controversial and complex concept.Might its study become commonplace? - Colin Butler, AustralianNational University, National Centre Epidemiology, Canberra, AustraliaE5 | BOOK PANELJOHN SNOWBRADFORDEcohealth research can change the world, one action at a timeModerator: Dominique Charron, IDRC Ecohealth research for development - Dominique Charron, IDRC Improving health, food security and soil fertility - Lizzy ShumbaSFHC Project, Malawi & Rachel Bezner-Kerr, University of WesternOntario, Canada Reducing airborne Manganese in Molango Mexico - HoracioRiojas, National Institute of Public Health (INSP), Mexico Broadening malaria control policies to include environment inTanzania - Leonard Mboera, National Institute for Medical Research,Tanzania Re-building Urban Ecosystems for Better Community Health inKathmandu - D Joshi, Executive Chairman, National Zoonoses andFood Hygiene Research Centre (NZFHRC), Kathmandu, Nepal8

PROGRAMME OF EVENTS3.20 Refreshments, exhibition and attended poster sessionCLOSING PLENARY SESSION 6: Civil Society Perspectives3:50-5.20 Panel debateChair: Margot Parkes, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada, and IAEH Anne Stauffer, Policy Manager, Health & Environment Alliance, Brussels Chris Church, Chair, UK Low Carbon Communities Network Environmental justice movements in Scotland and India - Eurig Scandrett, Formerly Head of Community Action at Friends of the EarthScotland; Lecturer in Sociology and Coordinator of Environmental Justice programmes at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh5:20 Closing remarksCarolyn Stephens and Jonathan PatzAnnouncement of IAEH student awards5:30 CloseJOHN SNOW LECTURE THEATRE10

Global Ecohealth Challenges; Multiple PerspectivesGENERAL INFORMATION11AccessLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is fullyaccessible in a wheelchair to all public areas by ramp or lift. If youhave any special needs or require assistance please contact a memberof staff at registration.Admission to conference sessionsAdmission to any conference session is by badge only. Please ensureyou are in your seat at least five minutes prior to the start of eachsession and that your mobile or smart phones are turned to silent.BadgesIn the interest of security please make sure that your badge is clearlyvisible at all times during the conference. If you loose your badge thenplease report immediately to the Registration Desk in the upper foyerand you will be issued with a replacement.Certificates of attandenceAn electronic certificate of attendance will be sent to you as proof ofyour participation at this conference after the event. Certificates willonly be sent to those delegates who complete an online conferenceevaluation www.surveymonkey.com/ecohealth2010Conference dinnerThe conference dinner will be hosted at London Zooin Regent's Park, the International Association ofEcology and Health (IAEH) would like to thank ZSLfor their support.Directions to the Zoo can be found at the registration desk, weencourage delegates to walk to and from the zoo. Pre-dinner drinks willbe hosted in the gardens from 7.30pm. National dress welcome.EmergenciesIn the event of an emergency please contact a member of staff fromProfile Productions, or report any incidents to the front desk in themain foyer of LSHTM, located on the ground floor. In all otherinstances, please dial 999.ExhibitionA variety of stands are located in the LSHTM foyers during theconference, please take the time to visit these stands. The exhibitionwill remain open until 3.50pm on Friday 20 AugustLondon Photographic AssociationThe London Photographic Association (LPA), a membership organisationpromoting the work and interests of international photographers,photography students and lens-based artists, will be providing athought-provoking exhibition at Ecohealth 2010. The exhibition willconsist of images selected from the LPA's 2010 "Landscape" and"Urbanscape" competitions. LPA Managing Director, Kevin O'Connor,comments on the Association's involvement with Ecohealth 2010."The LPA is very pleased to be involved with the Ecohealth 2010conference and applauds its goals of biodiversity and sustainability,"he says. "We live on the most unbelievably beautiful planet and andall need to play our part in looking after it so we can hand it on tofuture generations. Photographers are a group of people who examinenatural beauty, decay and destruction in minute detail and focus onnew ways of looking at everyday things."It is therefore our hope that the exhibition of images from the LPA's"Landscape" and "Urbanscape" competitions will act as a vivid reminderof the natural beauty of our planet and illustrate man's intervention."LunchLunch will be served in the refectory of LSHTM, you were providedwith three 'Luncheon Vouchers' in your delegate pack. Please use thesevouchers in exchange for lunch. If you have any specific dietaryrequirements and have not notified the organisers then please do so.LSHTM fully supports Fair trade products for refreshment breaks andlunches. Each day seasonal produce for lunch will reflect some localdishes from around the UK, including Scotland and Wales.Parallel sessionsParallel sessions will take place in a number of different rooms withinLSHTM. Please refer to the programme pages in this handbook forroom allocations. All parallel sessions will be chaired by someone withstrong links with IAEH.Poster displayThe poster display area is located in the foyer areas of LSHTM and willfeature approximately 80 posters of research, initiatives anddevelopments from around the globe. A number of prizes will beawarded for posters during the final plenary session.RefreshmentsRefreshments will be available to you during the breaks as indicatedon the programme. LSHTM have sourced both local and fair tradeproducts for use during this conference.Registration deskIf you have any enquiries please make your way to the RegistrationDesk in the upper foyer of the School, where you will find eithermembers of Profile Productions or members of the IAEH who will beat hand to help.Official opening times are as follows:TuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday4.30pm - 6.30pm8am - 6.00pm8am - 6.00pm8am - 6.00pmWelcome receptionYou are officially invited to join us at the Welcome Reception onWednesday 18 August from 5.30pm to be held in LSHTM. This is theideal opportunity to catch up with friends and colleagues as well asnetwork with other delegates at conference, it also gives you extratime to view the poster presentations.

PLENARY BIOGRAPHIESWEDNESDAY 18 AUGUSTCarolyn StephensLSHTM, London, UKCarolyn's first degree, from Cambridge University, isin English Literature; followed by an MSc and aPh.D. in Environmental Epidemiology (LondonSchool of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Universityof London). She is now a Reader in InternationalEnvironmental Health at LSHTM and Full Professorof Indigenous Health in the National University of Tucumán (UNT),and the National University of Cordoba (UNC), in Argentina.Carolyn is based fulltime in Argentina living in the ReservaExperimental de Horco Molle of the UNT in Tucumán, and workingwith the indigenous communities of Diaguita Calchaqui in Tucumán,and the Mbya Guaraní of Misiones. Her long-term interest is in equityand sustainable development, and her research focuses on health andenvironmental inequalities internationally, and the links of biodiversityand human health. For over 20 years, Carolyn has lived and workedlong-term in India, Africa (Liberia, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania) and mostrecently Latin America (principally Argentina, Brazil).Carolyn is a Fellow by distinction of the Faculty of Public HealthMedicine of the Royal College of Physicians and an InternationalFellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. She has been on the boardof the IAEH since its inception, and is on the editorial board of 6international peer-reviewed journals related to ecosystems,environmental research and health, including Ecohealth. Alongside herroutine scientific work Carolyn has led many participatory projectswith young people and disadvantaged communities, engaging them instudies of their environment and health. In 2007 she won both theRoyal Society Kohn Award for excellence in science communication,and the London Education Partnership Award for individual academicexcellence, for the LSHTM's science engagement work.Jonathan PatzProfessor, University Wisconsin, USAJonathan Patz, MD, MPH, is a Professor & Directorof Global Environmental Health at the University ofWisconsin in Madison. He Co-chaired the healthexpert panel of the US National Assessment onClimate Change and was a Convening Lead Authorfor the United Nations/World Bank MillenniumEcosystem Assessment. For the past 15 years, Dr. Patz has been a leadauthor for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on ClimateChange (or IPCC) – the organization that shared the 2007 NobelPeace Prize with Al Gore.He is President of the International Association for Ecology and Healthand has written over 90 peer-reviewed papers and a textbookaddressing the health effects of global environmental change. He hasbeen invited to brief both houses of Congress, served on severalscientific committees of the National Academy of Sciences, andcurrently serves on science advisory boards for both CDC and EPA. Inaddition to his sharing in the 2007 Nobel Prize, Dr. Patz received anAldo Leopold Leadership Fellows Award in 2005, shared the ZayedInternational Prize for the Environment in 2006, and earned thedistinction of becoming a UW-Madison Romnes Faculty Fellow in 2009.He has earned medical board certification in both Occupational/Environmental Medicine and Family Medicine and received his medicaldegree from Case Western Reserve University (1987) and his Masterof Public Health degree (1992) from Johns Hopkins University.Nigel ReeveHead of Ecology, The Royal Parks, LondonNigel joined The Royal Parks in 2002. Formerly, hewas a Principal Lecturer in the School of LifeSciences, University of Roehampton where heremains an Honorary Research Fellow. He is knownmainly for his research on hedgehogs and other smallmammals, and his 1994 monograph Hedgehogs inthe Poyser Natural History series. He is an active Member of theMammal Society and European Hedgehog Research Group.Nigel's role as Head of Ecology is to provide The Royal Parks withexpertise on a wide range of ecological and wildlife conservationmanagement issues. All the Royal Parks are Sites of MetropolitanImportance for Nature Conservation and Richmond Park is a NationalNature Reserve and European Special Area of Conservation. He leads ateam of two staff as well as managing contract work and volunteers.The team's work include a number of key elements: the developmentand implementation of a Parks-wide biological recording andmonitoring programme; to work with wildlife volunteers; to conductand commission surveys and impact assessments; to respond toplanning proposals; to co-ordinate and review research; to take anactive role in public liaison, communication, interpretation andeducation initiatives; to work with partner organisations in the LondonBiodiveristy Partnership and in Local Biodiversity Action Plans.David SatterhwaiteSenior Fellow, Human Settlements Group, InternationalInstitute of Environment & Development, UKDavid Satterthwaite is a Senior Fellow at theInternational Institute for Environment andDevelopment (IIED) and editor of the internationaljournal Environment and Urbanization.A development planner by training with a doctoratefrom the London School of Economics, he has alsobeen working with the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Changesince 1998 and teaches at the Development Planning Unit, UniversityCollege London. He was awarded the Volvo Environment Prize in 2004and is an honorary Professor at the University of Hull.Most of his work has been on poverty reduction in urban areas inAfrica, Asia and Latin America, undertaken with local teams. He hasadvised various international agencies including UNICEF, World HealthOrganization, OECD, the Swedish International DevelopmentCooperation Agency (Sida), the European Commission, DFID, DANIDAand the Brundtland Commission. He has written and edited variousbooks on urban issues, including Squatter Citizen (with Jorge E.Hardoy), The Earthscan Reader on Sustainable Cities, EnvironmentalProblems in an Urbanizing World (with Jorge E. Hardoy and DianaMitlin) and Empowering Squatter Citizen; Local Government, CivilSociety and Urban Poverty Reduction (with Diana Mitlin), which arepublished by Earthscan, London. He is also editor of Adapting Cities toClimate Change (with Jane Bicknell and David Dodman) published byEarthscan in April 2009.12

PLENARY BIOGRAPHIESTHURSDAY 19 AUGUSTPeter DaszakPresident, Wildlife Trust, USADr Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance(formally Wildlife Trust), is a leader in the field ofconservation medicine and a respected diseaseecologist. EcoHealth Alliance is a global organizationdedicated to innovative conservation science linkingecology and the health of humans and wildlife.EcoHealth Alliance's mission is to provide scientists and educators withsupport for grassroots conservation efforts in 20 high-biodiversitycountries in North America, Asia, Africa, and Latin America.Dr Daszak was formally the Executive Director of EcoHealth Alliance'sConsortium for Conservation Medicine (CCM) - a collaborative thinktankof institutions including Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School ofPublic Health, The University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of PublicHealth, The University of Wisconsin-Madison Nelson Institute forEnvironmental Studies, Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary MedicineCenter for Conservation Medicine, and the USGS National WildlifeHealth Center. The CCM is the first formal inter-institutionalpartnership to link conservation and disease ecology. Dr Daszak'sresearch has been instrumental in revealing and predicting the impactsof emerging diseases on wildlife, livestock, and human populations.His recent work includes identifying the first case of a species extinctiondue to disease, the discovery of chytridiomycosis, the major cause ofglobal amphibian declines, publishing the first paper to highlight emergingdiseases in wildlife, coining the term 'pathogen pollution,' discovery of thebat origin of SARS-like coronaviruses, identifying the drivers of Nipah andHendra virus emergence, and producing the first ever emerging disease'hot spots' map. Dr Daszak holds adjunct positions at three U.S. andtwo U.K. universities and serves on the National Research Council'scommittee on the future of veterinary research in the U.S.A member of the Council of Advisors of the One Health Commission,Dr Daszak is also Treasurer of DIVERSITAS (ICSU), a member of theInternational Standing Advisory Board of the Australian BiosecurityCRC, a past member of the IOM Committee on global surveillance foremerging zoonoses and the NRC committee on the future ofveterinary research. He is co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal EcoHealth,and Treasurer, and a founding director of the International EcoHealthAssociation. In 2000, he won the CSIRO medal for collaborativeresearch in the discovery of amphibian chytridiomycosis.He has published over 120 scientific papers including papers in Science,Nature, PNAS, The Lancet, PLoS Biology and other leading journals.His work has been the focus of articles in The New York Times, The WallStreet Journal, The Economist, Washington Post, US News & WorldReport, CBS 60 Minutes, CNN, ABC, NPR's Talk of the Nation, MorningEdition & Fresh Air with Terri Gross. He worked at the CDC where heassisted in the pathology activity during the 1999 Nipah virus outbreak.His work is funded in part by the John E. Fogarty International Center ofNIH, NIAID, NSF, USAID, Google, Rockefeller and other foundations.To date, EcoHealth Alliance is one of the few organizations to havebeen awarded three prestigious NIH/NSF 'Ecology of InfectiousDisease' awards, and is one of four partners to share a recent multimilliondollar award from USAID (“PREDICT”) with the goal ofpredicting and preventing the next emerging zoonotic disease.Jonathan SleemanDirector of the USA Geological Survey's NationalWildlife Health Center, USAJonathan is currently the Center Director for the USGeological Survey's National Wildlife Health Centeras well as dedicating time to his second role as anAdjunct Professor, University of Wisconsin School ofVeterinary Medicine. Jonathan is also theimmediate Past President of the AmericanAssociation of Wildlife Veterinarians.Jonathan's professional career began in 1995 as the Director of theMountain Gorilla Veterinary Center, following his studies at the Universityof Cambridge where he graduated with an MA in Zoology in 1989 and aVetMB in 1992. Jonathan then continued both his studies and careerdevelopment holding positions as an Instructor and Post Doctoral Fellow atthe Colorado State University as well as more recently a Wildlife Veterinarianfor the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries until 2009.His studies in the past few years have rewarded Jonathan with RoyalCollege of Veterinary Surgeons Recognized Specialist in WildlifeMedicine (2003) as well as Diplomate of the European College ofZoological Medicine (2009)From gorillas to bats: health threats to biodiversityHistorically, infectious diseases were not considered threats to wildlifepopulations, and in fact were thought to be another populationregulator. However, there is an increasing body of evidence illustratingthe role of pathogens and pollutants in the declines of wildlife species.Previous work has documented the unprecedented increase in thenumber of emerging infectious diseases, of which a majority is ofwildlife origin. Examples of health threats to biodiversity include the“spill over” of human diseases to great ape populations, the nearextirpationof the black footed ferret from canine distemper, andthreats to Hawaiian forest birds from introduced pathogens such asavian malaria and avian pox. Contaminants also threaten thepersistence of wildlife species; for example, lead continues to be animpediment to the recovery of the California condor, and vulturepopulations in Asia have declined dramatically as a result of theconsumption of carcasses containing diclofenac acid, a previouslycommonly used non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug.Furthermore, some diseases such as chronic wasting disease in elk anddeer may represent a threat as much from the negative economic impactof these diseases on wildlife management agencies' abilities to manageand conserve wildlife. Additionally, there are also several newly discoveredpathogens or diseases that have resulted in population declines, andpossible global extinctions of several species. Examples includeBatrachochytrium dendrobatidis, which causes a fungal cutaneousinfection of amphibians and is linked to declines of amphibians globally;recently discovered Geomyces destructans, the presumptive etiologicagent of white nose syndrome which has caused precipitous declines ofNorth American bat species; as well as Tasmanian Devil facial tumordisease which is an infectious cancer threatening the Tasmanian devil withextinction. Many of these health threats are the consequence of humanactivities that result in the introduction or spill-over of known pathogensinto wildlife populations, so called “pathogen pollution.” Of increasingconcern are the novel pathogens and diseases that have emerged withoutovert human intervention or involvement as they are particularlydevastating as well as challenging to predict and manage.14

Global Ecohealth Challenges; Multiple PerspectivesPLENARY BIOGRAPHIES15To address these threats, smarter, more integrated active diseasesurveillance and increased wildlife disease diagnostic capacity areneeded. Specifically, new molecular diagnostic techniques have openedup avenues for pathogen discovery and the application of spatiallyreferenced databases allows for risk assessments that can assist intargeting surveillance. Integration and analysis of real-time data froma variety of sources including human and animal health data withclimatic, ecologic, hydrologic, geologic and socio-economic data, amongother sources, will assist in generating predictive models of “hot spots”of disease emergence. Multidisciplinary research programs in wildlifedisease epidemiology and ecology should also be expanded to increaseour understanding of the drivers of emerging diseases and allow for thedevelopment of better disease prevention and management tools.Milind WatveProfessor, Indian institute of Science Education andResearch, Delhi, IndiaDr Milind Watve began his studies in the 1970's andwas awarded a B.Sc and M.Sc in Microbiology from theUniversity of Poona. Throughout his career Milind hascompleted many research papers and has had numerouspieces of his research works published including morerecently 'A method of treatment for metabolic syndrome'.Dr Watve received his Ph.D from the Indian Institute of Science,Bangalore in 1994 where his thesis "The Ecology of Host ParasiteInteractions in a Wild Mammalian Host Community in the MudumalaiWild Life Sanctuary Southern India" received great press coverage inmany journals, including Science. Currently Dr Watve is a Professor inBiology at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune.Steve LindsayProfessor of Public Health Entomology, LSHTM, UKProfessor Lindsay studies some of the world's mostimportant vector-borne diseases; chiefly malaria. He isa public health entomologist who develops new toolsto reduce the transmission of vector-borne diseases.He was a member of the team in the 1980s thatshowed that insecticide-treated bednets reducedmalaria deaths. More recently, his team demonstrated the importance ofhouse screening to reduce anaemia in children, and that larval control canbe an extremely effective method of malaria control in specific situations.He is a strong advocate of the use of Integrated Vector Management.He has studied vector-borne diseases for nearly 30 years and hasworked in The Gambia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Pakistan, Tanzania, Thailandand Uganda. He has published over 130 peer-reviewed papers, manyin major international journals.Raul MontenegroProfessor of Evolutionary Biology, University ofCordoba, ArgentinaDr Montenegro was born in Cordoba, Argentina andhas written and published a huge variety of worksboth in his home country and on an internationallevel. Currently with various academic posts, Raul isa Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the NationalUniversity of Cordoba, Argentina and a DoctorHonoris Causa for the National University of San Luis (Argentina), aswell as being an advisor of menaced indigenous peoples andmarginalized neighborhoods both in Argentina and other countries.Raul Montenegro has made many appearances as a guest speaker at GuestSpeaker at Harvard University/Coolidge Centre, Berkeley University andGeorgetown University (USA): University of Stockholm (Sweden); Universityof Jena and University of Ilmenau (Germany); University of Salzburg(Austria); University of Queen´s (Canada). He is an invited Professor atthe University of Helsinki, Finland as well as a Fellow, Universiti SainsMalaysia, Right Livelihood College, Malaysia. Raul is also a Member of theBoard at the “Master on Engineering Sciences, Environmental Section”(Faculty of Engineering, National University of Cordoba, Argentina).In recognition of his dedicated work, Raul has been awarded manyprizes including: Alternative Nobel Prize 2004 (RLA, Stockholm, Sweden). Global 500 Award from United Nations (UNEP, Brussels, Belgium) Nuclear Free-Future Award (Salzburg, Austria)Raul has also been actively involved with the direction of over 30relevant television documentaries within Argentina.Margo GreenwoodAcademic Lead, National Collaborating Centre forAboriginal Health, Adjunct Professor, NorthernMedical Program, Associate Professor, Education andFirst Nations Studies programs, University of NorthernBritish Columbia, CanadaDr Margo Greenwood, Academic Leader of the NationalCollaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health, is anIndigenous scholar of Cree ancestry with more than20 years' experience in the field of early childhoodeducation. Professionally and personally, children havebeen the focus of her life. She has worked as a front linecaregiver of early childhood services, designed early childhood curriculum,programs, and evaluations, and taught early childhood education courses atboth the college and university levels. As a mother of three, she is personallycommitted to the continued well-being of children and youth in Canada.While Margo's focus has been on all children, she is recognizedregionally, provincially, nationally and internationally for her work withAboriginal children. She has served with over 30 national and provincialfederations, committees and assemblies, and has undertaken work withUNICEF, the United Nations, and the Canadian Reference Group to theWorld Health Organization Commission on Health Determinants. Inrecognition of her years of work to promote awareness and policyaction on the rights and well-being of Aboriginal children, youth andfamilies, Margo Greenwood was the recipient of the Queen's Jubileemedal in 2002 and was recently awarded the Confederation ofUniversity Faculty Associations' Academic of the Year Award (2010).Currently, Margo is an Associate Professor in both the Education andFirst Nations Studies programs and Adjunct Professor in the NorthernMedical Program at the University of Northern British Columbia. Hercurrent research interests include the structural impetus for thedevelopment and subsequent implementation of early childhooddevelopment programs and services in Canada and with the Kohangareo in New Zealand; the social determinants of health with particularemphasis on colonialism and early childhood, specifically thedevelopment of Indigenous children's identity; and cross-culturalcommunication. Her scholarship and research also includes issuespertaining to Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing. In additionto her teaching and service commitments, Margo also directs a numberof research institutes, including Aboriginal ActNow BC, a Ministry ofHealth-funded collaborative health promotion initiative, and theNational Consortium on Aboriginal and Rural Public Health Education.

PLENARY BIOGRAPHIESJianchu XuProfessor, Kunming Institute of Botany, ChinaProf Jianchu Xu is the head of World AgroforestryCentre, East Asia Program, as well as working forKunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy ofScience and former Head of Water and Hazards atthe International Centre for Integrated MountainDevelopment in Kathmandu and former Director ofthe Center for Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge, a NGO based inSouthwest China for working with indigenous people for culturalsurvival, intercultural dialogues, forest management, land use transition,ecosystem and human health, community-based biodiversityconservation, sustainable livelihood and watershed governance.Xu is also a filed traveler with great interest in climate change inTibetan Plateau or the “Third Pole of the World”. He has stuck his noseinto soils, rivers and wetlands all over the Himalayan region. He hasexpressed the indigenous people's voices of climate change impactsand local adaptations through his photography. He is a keen travelerand researcher with an impressive reference list.FRIDAY 20 AUGUSTJonathan PatzSee page ?Roberto BertolliniSenior Officer in Environmental Health, WHO Geneva,SwitzerlandSince October 2007, Roberto Bertollini, M.D.,M.P.H. is Senior Adviser of the WHO Departmentof Public Health and Environment in Geneva andcoordinator of the Evidence and Policy forEnvironment and Health unit with the special taskto develop the WHO global policy and response tothe health impacts of global climate change. Prior to thisappointment , he was Director of the Division for Technical Support“Health Determinants” at the WHO Regional Office for Europe basedin Copenhagen, DEN, since December 2000 and subsequently sinceOctober 2004 Director of the WHO EURO Special Programme onHealth and Environment, with offices in Copenhagen (DEN), Rome(ITA) and Bonn (GER).Earlier in his career he was Director of the Rome Division of the WHOEuropean Centre for Environment and Health since 1993. Beforejoining WHO he worked at the Epidemiology Unit of the Lazio Regionof Italy. During his professional experience he has carried out missionsin several European and African countries, supporting theimplementation of health cooperation projects.Dr Bertollini holds a degree in medicine and a postgraduate degree inpediatrics, as well as a Master in Public Health which he obtainedfrom the Johns Hopkins University in 1983. His main professionalinterests concern the environmental influences on health, with specialreference to the effects of emerging threats such as climate change,health effects of lifestyle and socioeconomic determinants includingtobacco, alcohol and nutrition, the use of epidemiology for publichealth policy development and evaluation of public healthprogrammes and practices.During the years he has been involved in the development andprogress of the environmental health agenda in Europe and at theglobal level. In addition, he has led the organization of a number ofmajor scientific and political events including Ministerial Conferences,such as the one on Tobacco, held in Warsaw in February 2002, and theone on Environment and Health, held in Budapest in June 2004.Dr Bertollini has written many scientific articles, book chapters, hasgiven interviews and participated to various TV and RadioBroadcasts related to Public Health issues both in Italian andInternational networks.Nitish DebnathVice-Chancellor, Chittagong Veterinary and AnimalSciences University (CVASU), BangladeshProfessor Nitish C Debnath is a Vice Chancellor ofChittagong Veterinary and Animal SciencesUniversity(CVASU), Bangladesh. He graduated withveterinary degree-DVM from BangladeshAgricultural University, an MSc in Tropical VeterinaryMedicine from the University of Edinburgh and thenPh D in animal virology from the University of Surrey. He spent 18years as veterinary researcher in the Bangladesh Livestock ResearchInstitute and the Department of Livestock Services. In 1996 he movedinto a newly founded Chittagong Government VeterinaryCollege(CGVC) as Vice- Principal and then became Principal. He ledthe development and implementation of a new veterinaryundergraduate curriculum with a new element of 40-week long workbasedlearning programme at CGVC in collaboration with RoyalVeterinary College, London. In 2006 CGVC was transformed toChittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University and Dr Debnathwas absorbed as a Professor of Microbiology and made ViceChancellor of the CVASU.He has extensive experience in developing research programme,having led the establishment of Poultry and Livestock ResearchCentre(PRTC) at CVASU with support of DANIDA and chaired zoonosisresearch group. He pioneered a One Health movement in Bangladeshjointly with medical profession and environmental scientists andlaunched a new professional organization called One World OneHealth Bangladesh Initiative(One Health Bangladesh). He has beenchairing One health Bangladesh for the last two and a half years andorganized two international conferences at CVASU on One Health. Hisleading role in research and educational networking and collaborationwith RVC, London, University of Copenhagen, Tamil Nadu Veterinaryand Animal Sciences University, Wildlife trust, CDC, CommonwealthVeterinary Association, DANIDA, DFID and British Council, is givingshape of CVASU as a leading centre for veterinary studies. Hisinterests lie in one health based public health research and education,curriculum development based on integration and problem basedlearning and, networking.16

Global Ecohealth Challenges; Multiple PerspectivesPLENARY BIOGRAPHIES17Jan SemenzaProfessor Jan C. Semenza, PhD, MPH, MS, EuropeanCentre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC),Stockholm, SwedenProfessor Jan C. Semenza is a Section Head at theEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control(ECDC), a new public health agency in Europe,where he directs the climate change activities. Heconducted his PhD at the Medical Research Councilin Cambridge, UK in molecular cell biology wherehe isolated the receptor for heat-shock proteins, which wasnominated “the receptor of the year” at the time. Subsequently, heobtained an MPH in environmental health with a focus on toxicologyfrom UC Berkeley. Professor Semenza was a faculty member at UCBerkeley, UC Irvine, Oregon Health and Science University, and atPortland State University where he taught in the Oregon MastersProgram of Public Health. He has conducted a number of high profileinvestigations in environmental, cancer, and infectious diseaseepidemiology. He was also an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer atthe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 1995, whenhe led the CDC response to the heat wave in Chicago for which hereceived a Certificate of Commendation.Urban sustainabilityThe unpredictable nature of climate change poses considerablechallenges to public health because it acts as a multiplier on existingexposure pathways and thus exacerbates existing vulnerabilities.Urban settings are particularly susceptible to the impacts of extremeweather events due to high population densities with shared exposurepathways. Moreover, metropolitan areas tend to be at increased riskfrom heat waves because urban climates are often warmer thanun-built surroundings. Urban adaptation to climate change calls for:1) Social interventions that advance bonding, bridging, and linkingsocial capital in order to enhance community capacity and resilience.2) Interventions of the urban environment that attenuate thenegative consequences of climatic events by physically improvingthe built environment.These adaptation strategies in urban environments illustrate the needfor trans-disciplinary cooperation and community-based participation.In order to mount an effective response, public health practitionersneed to transcend the traditional disciplinary boundaries. Thisframework farms out public health action to other sectors of society,as well as community members of at risk populations, in order topromote sustainable adaptation.Anne StauferPolicy Manager, Health & Environment Alliance, BrusselsAnne is the Health and Environment Alliance ( HEAL)Policy Manager, coordinating the organisationsoverall policy input into the EU decision-makingprocess. HEAL raises awareness of howenvironmental protection improves people's health,and works to strengthen European policies. HEAL is adiverse network of over 60 citizens', patients', health professionals',women's and environmental groups. Members include international andEurope-wide organisations, as well as national and local groups.Before joining HEAL, Anne worked as a research and policy coordinatorin the European Parliament on environmental health issues. She holdsan M.A. in Sociology and Political Science from the University ofFreiburg, Germany, and has completed graduate work in GenderStudies in the United States.www.env-health.orgEurig ScandrettFormerly Head of Community Action at Friends of theEarth Scotland; Lecturer in Sociology and Coordinatorof Environmental Justice programmes at QueenMargaret University, EdinburghEurig Scandrett has degrees in EnvironmentalBiology, Community Education and Contextual andLiberation Theology. After an initial career inscientific research he spent 15 years in adulteducation and campaigning on environmental,peace and gender issues. For eight years he wasHead of Community Action at Friends of the Earth Scotland,developing education and support for local environmental justiceactivists. He is currently a lecturer in Sociology at Queen MargaretUniversity and programme leader for courses in social justice, genderjustice and environmental justice. His research interests focus onknowledge generation and distribution in environmental justicemovements and he has published on lifelong education andenvironmental justice. He is coordinator of the Bhopal Survivors'Movement Study and edited Bhopal Survivors Speak: emergent voicesfrom a People's Movement (2009, Word Power Books). He is a Fellowof the Centre for Human Ecology.Chris ChurchChair, UK Low Carbon Communities NetworkChris Church works on ways in which policy andpractice around environment, health and sustainabledevelopment issues translate into action at the localand community level. His work includes research,training, evaluation and project management. Chrisis Chair of the UK Low Carbon CommunitiesNetwork and manages the Community Environment Associatesconsultancy. He is also a director of social enterprise Mapping forChange, which works on local mapping and GIS use with civil societyorganisations. He is an Honorary Research Associate at UniversityCollege London (UCL), and a member of the London SustainableDevelopment Commission appointed by the Mayor of London.Chris has worked on environment and health links for a number ofyears and co-authored a manual for WHO on local project work andwrote 'Healthy people, healthy planet' for the UK Chartered Instituteof Environmental Health. He is actively involved in UK work onenvironmental justice and inequalities. Chrischurch@cooptel.net

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