U.S.-Ukraine JCM, Health Component, Kyiv, 18 October, 2011

Current research priorities

in environmentalhealth research

Olena Turos, D.Med.ScO.M. Marzeiev Institute for Hygiene and

Medical Ecology of AMSU

Presenter: Oksana Voznyuk

Main directions Hygienic assessment of the quality of ambient air, water, soil,

industrial and communal waste utilization

Scientific backgrounds for development of systems of chemical, physic and biological safety

Study of the human health effects in relation to the environmental factors (environmental epidemiology)

Detection and analysis of the canrcer and mutagenic effects Radiation safety and anti-radiation protection Pollen monitoring Electromagnetic fields studies

Scientific questions of the children’s and teenagers’ hygiene

Issues of nutrition 

Development and practical application of various information technologies into practical hygiene and medical ecology 

Working out regulations, standards, and preventive programs of risk reduction for the purposes of practical hygiene and medical ecology

Institute’s Structure

Scientific staff - 282 members

Scientific fellows – 168

Academician – 1Professors – 11Doctors of science – 26PhDs – 57Young researchers – 41Engineers and laboratory assistants – 50

European project “Youth and Tobacco”, materials were published in the WHO Report, 2007; 2008.

IAEA UKR/9/021 “Intensification of the measures for nuclear and radiation safety”

EC – “Assessment of the consequences of the effects of technological residues of the uranium production”

Joint project with the Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki – study of the radiation risks

International Programs and Projects

Joint project with the Swedish radiation regulating body – RADON

Ukrainian – Russian project “Accidental reaction on the radiation accident at the NPP”

Agreement with the World Allergy Organization (WAO) – methodology of the pollen monitoring for EC

EPA, Environmental Defense– Human Health Risk Assessment methodology implementation

Project of the World Bank – ecological partnership (Zaporizhia)

Joint project with the Illinois University – ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH

Project of the CEN TC 216 International Organization, group for the investigations of chemical disinfectants and antiseptics, FRG

INSTITUTE FOR HYGIENE AND MEDICAL ECOLOGY IS A COLLABORATING CENTER OF THE WHO IN THE ISSUES OF AMBIENT AIR HYGIENE

Pollen monitoring Collaboration with WAO since 2006

- Pollen monitoring in the ambient air

- Development of the database of the micro objects of b biological contamination

Ambient Air Pollution and Risk Assessment Laboratory

EPA and Environmental Defense “Capacity Building for Environmental decision making in NIS”

EPA “Building Institutional Capacity of MENR”

World Bank “Ecological Partnership in Zaporizhia”

Ambient Air Pollution and Risk Assessment Laboratory

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Human Health Risk Assessment Studies in Relation to Ambient Air Pollution

Kyiv Zhaporizhia Druzhkivka Cherkasy

Odesa Lviv KharkivDnipropetrovsk

Identification of risk zones formed in the result of ambient

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Identification of risk zones formed in the result of ambient air pollution coming from mobile

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Thank YouFor

Attention!

Contacts

Olena TurosDoctor of Medical SciencesHead of Ambient Air Pollution andRisk Assessment Lab IHME AMSUeturos@mail.ru

Oksana VoznyukResearch fellowAmbient Air Pollution andRisk Assessment Lab IHME AMSUvoznyuk.oksana@gmail.com

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