3 days ago - Online registration is mandatory and free. Details on the programme are presented on the following page and
30 NOVEMBER 2017 SYMPOSIUM: SOLVING TOMORROW’S TOXIC PROBLEMS TODAY AUDITORIUM 0|2 BUILDING VU AMSTERDAM
The VU’s newly established Department of Environment and Health invites you to its debut symposium on Thursday 30 November 2017 in the new O|2 Building on the VU campus in Amsterdam. Entitled ‘Solving tomorrow’s toxic problems today’ this symposium engages speakers and audience members regarding contemporary questions in environmental health and chemical (and plastic) pollution. Topics include toxic chemicals in products, waste streams and secondary materials and the links between chemical exposure and negative public health outcomes.
Considering these topics, we will ask the question what criteria are important for the chemicals of the future, and what paths we can take to solve toxicity and exposure issues in an earlier stage, before the contamination – and adverse health ramifications - go global. The full-day program is designed to pose thought-provoking questions, and will provide ample opportunity for discussion and networking with scientists, health professionals and other stakeholders. Online registration is mandatory and free. Details on the programme are presented on the following page and online.
INFORMATION Thursday 30 November 2017 from 9:30 to 17:00, followed by drinks. Auditorium, ground floor, O|2 Building, Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1108, 1081 HZ Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Click here for travel directions. Lunch: included Online free registration: Click here Extended registration deadline: 24 November 2017 Questions? Please contact Eva Sugeng
The symposium ‘Solving tomorrow’s toxic problems today’ is hosted by the recently established Department of Environment and Health, VU Faculty of Science, click here to visit the website.
PROGRAMME 9:30 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE 10:15 Opening and welcome - Jacob de Boer, Director of Department Environment and Health, VU
SESSION 1 - DO CHEMICALS CAUSE DISEASE? 10:30 Evidence base for industrial chemicals causing obesity and neurological disorders - Marijke de Cock, Department of Environment and Health, VU 10:50 Chemical pollution and increased cancer incidence: causally related or coincidence? - Marjolein van Egmond, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, VUmc 11:20 To be confirmed 11:40 Discussion
12:00 LUNCH BREAK
SESSION 2 - FUTURE CHEMICALS: WHICH CHEMICALS NEED TO GO AND WHICH NEED TO COME? 13:00 Chemical alternatives, is it so easy? - Pim Leonards, Department of Environment and Health, VU 13:20 It’s a matter of choice - Gavin ten Tusscher, Pediatrician at Westfriesgasthuis 13:40 Chemical prioritization using toxic profiling and effects-directed analysis - Timo Hamers and Marja Lamoree, Department of Environment and Health, VU
SESSION 3 - (TOXIC) PRODUCT TO (TOXIC) WASTE TO (TOXIC) RESOURCE - WHAT DO WE NEED TO GET MATERIAL STREAMS HEALTHIER? 15:00 Non-toxic material cycles in a circular economy: a policy perspective - Cees Luttikhuizen, Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment 15:20 Reimagining chemicals in a circular economy - Eva Gladek, Metabolic 15:40 Plastic emissions and health - Heather Leslie, Department of Environment and Health, VU
14:05 Discussion 16:00 Discussion 14:30 COFFEE BREAK 16:20 WRAP UP 17:00 DRINKS
Faculty of Science Department of Environment and Health
Auditorium, ground floor, O|2 Building
Contact:
[email protected] Website: science.vu.nl/environmentandhealth
