School of Public Health and Community Medicine - University of Washington - Autumn 2007

International Forum

Professor David Eaton, who is also an associate vice provost in the UW Office of Research, along with Executive Vice Provost Ana Mari Cauce, represented the UW at the fourth international Science and Technology and Society Forum in Kyoto, Japan, in October.

This forum brought together about 600 invited leaders from industry, academia, and government to discuss how new advances in science and technology will impact global society. Of particular relevance to our department was a session that emphasized the importance of understanding the human health and environmental consequences of nanotechnology.

Vietnam Conference

Our department is cosponsoring the Third International Scientific Conference on Occupational and Environmental Health in Hanoi, Vietnam, Oct. 21-23. The theme is Occupational and Environmental Health: Challenges in Rapidly Industrializing Countries. Abstracts are due March 15. The call for abstracts can be downloaded at http://depts.washington.edu/cchwe/.

Sponsors are the Vietnam National Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health; Vietnam Association of Occupational Health; Vietnam Ministry of Health; Vietnam Ministry of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs; and our Collaborative Center for Healthy Work and Environment (formerly International Scholars in Occupational and Environmental Health).

Graduate Students and Alumni

Laura McLaughlin (MS 2006, Environmental Health) is back at UW after a year of international travel. She spent a year in Finland on a Valle fellowship, and then presented her results at a conference at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. Her travels to Finland, Siberia, the Gobi Dessert, China, and India are recorded on her blog, http://www.nomadiclaura.blogspot.com.

Jennifer Crowe (MPH, 2005, Environmental and Occupational Health) works at the National University in Costa Rica and is organizing two international conferences in June, on epidemiology in occupational health and neurobehavioral methods and effects. For information, visit http://www.epicoh-neureoh2008.com/.

Janessa Graves, an MPH student in our Environmental & Occupational Health program, manages an early childhood caries prevention project in the Pacific Islands for the UW's Dental Public Health Sciences, www.pieccpp.org. Before coming to the UW, she was a Peace Corps volunteer in the South Pacific, http://depts.washington.edu/envhlth/student_bio/graves.php.

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