Category: Site_visit

11-14 Jul 1998, Φ Rome, incl. WHO-ECEH preparatory meeting on transport, environment and health

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11.-14.7.1998, Rome, incl. WHO-ECEH preparatory meeting on transport, environment and health

WHO-Europe, European Center for Environment and Health (ECEH), Via Francesco Crispi, 10, 00187 Rome: Preparatory meeting for upcoming Vienna Forum 28.-31.7.1998 and London 1999 Ministerial conference on Environment and Health.

Discussion topics included the following: Physical exercise, Noise, Psychology, Accidents/Injuries, Vulnerable groups, Economic valuation.

LÖGD Bielefeld had been contracted to prepare a science based review on „Integrated Environmental Health Impact Assessment (IEHIA) of transportation activities“ as one of the substantiation papers for the „Transport, Environment and Health“ session of the London 1999 conference. The review was prepared in cooperation with RIVM (Bilthoven), U Basel, U Innsbruck [98-21].

Review, final version (15.4.1999):

1999_04_15 IEHIA lond53aDownload

11.7.1998 Rome, Santissima Trinità die Monti

12.7.1998 Rome, San Luigi dei Francesi, incl. momument to Claude (by Paul Le Moyne); Campo de Fiori; Galleria Doria Pamphilj.

30 Mar 1996, London, incl. Claude

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30.3.-6.4.96 London

31.3.96 National Gallery, incl. special exhibition “Doria Pamphilj Gallery” in the North Wing, Room 30 / Sonderausstellung “Doria Pamphilj Gallery” in der National Gallery; incl. Claude: View of Delphi with a Procession, 1650; Landscape with Watermill and Dancing Figures, 1649-50

31.3.96 Film “Toy Story”

1.4.96 British Museum

2.4.96 Courtauld Institute, incl. Claude

3.4.96 Planetarium, St.Martin-in-the-Fields, Bach: St. John Passion

4.4.96 Science Museum, incl. The Wellcome Museum of the History of Medicine; Galleries:

  • Glimpses of Medical History
  • The Science and Art of Medicine
  • Veterinary History

Highlights:

  • €1930s dentist’s surgery
  • €1905 Pharmacy
  • Childbirth in the 1860s
  • Open heart operation in 1980
  • The eradication of smallpox
  • Lister’s ward in 1868
  • 1641 drug jar
  • l6th century medicine chest
  • Jenner memorabilia
  • Laennec’s stethoscope
  • Pasteurs equipment
  • 192Os heart-lung apparatus
  • Anatomical model of a horse

Source: Trustees of the Science Museum (1991/1994): Guide to the Science Museum.

5.4.96 Kew Gardens; cf.: https://rfehr.eu/1991/12/22/22-dec-1991-3-jan-1992-england-wales/

4-20 Dec 1993, Φ San Francisco & Bay Area: Healthy Cities conference, Cal-EPA, ATSDR group, etc.

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4.-20.12.1993, San Francisco & Bay Area: Healthy Cities conference, Cal-EPA, ATSDR group, etc.

4.12.93, Departure from Bielefeld; 5.12.93, Take-off from Frankfurt/Main; Arrival at San Francisco

6.-7.12.93, Preconference

8.-11.12.93, Healthy Cities conference

14.12.93, UCB, Warren Winkelstein; topics included IEEI

14.12.93, Cal-EPA (discussion ctd. from August 1993); topics included:

  • CAPCOA Air Toxics “Hot Spots” Program (1993): Revised 1992 Risk Assessment Guidelines assessments and their scientific rationale
  • PC program “Health Risk Assessment” (HRA)
  • CalTOX program: developed by T.McKone (Lawrence Livermoore National Laboratory), currently under review.

15.12.93, UCB, discussion topics included the recent Healthy Cities conference, 8.-11.12.93, (e.g. as an opportunity for contact between scientists and politicians); and advanced Environmental Health information management

15.12.93, ATSDR group, California Department of Health Services, Emeryville; topics included:

  • Public Health assessments (ATSDR-type); cf. the book by ATSDR: Public Health Risk Assessment, Lewis Publishers
  • EPA: Superfund Exposure Assessment Manual
  • Fact sheets (in English, Spanish) are being sent out to residents

19.12.93, Take-off from San Francisco; 20.12.93, Arrival Frankfurt/Main -> Bielefeld.