On April 15-19, 2019, Nizhnevartovsk State University held the Final International Research and Practical Conference “Intercultural Dialogue and Collaboration of the European Union and Russia: Implementation of Jean Monnet Projects at Nizhnevartovsk State University”.
The Conference included the Panel Session “Interaction of environment and human health: Experience of the European Union” organized within Jean Monnet Module “Interaction of environment and human health: Experience of the European Union”, Project No. 2016-2592 / 001-001, 574826-EPP-1-2016-1-RU-EPPJMO-MODULE, supported by the European Commission.
More than 50 people attended the Session, including 6 reporting speakers.
The Session participants discussed the following issues:
- Trends in research of environmental impact on human health in Europe.
- Health 2020, the 21st century European policy framework and strategy.
- Chemical safety and public health issues in the EU countries and Russia.
- Monitoring of pollutants in the European Region of the World Health Organization.
- Global climate change, environmental impact, and prevention programs in Europe.
The Session was joined by Russian and foreign environmental experts, university professors, students, graduate students, members of the academic and professional community.
Keynote speakers and moderators included Denis Pogonyshev, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor, First Vice-Rector of Nizhnevartovsk State University; Fedor Petrovsky, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor at Khanty-Mansiysk State Medical Academy, and Irina Pogonysheva, Coordinator of the Jean Monnet Module “Interaction of environment and human health: Experience of the European Union”.
The event also involved summing up Jean Monnet Module “Interaction of environment and human health: Experience of the European Union” and discussing key problems of the environmental impact on public health, ways of using the EU experience in the Russian context of environmental protection and public health.
The conference shall be followed by a collection of papers and reports published online in the electronic library, official website of Nizhnevartovsk State University, and at the Erasmus + web-portal at Nizhnevartovsk State University.
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The project “Interaction of environment and human health: Experience of the European Union”, 574826-EPP-1-2016-1-RU-EPPJMO-MODULE, is co-financed by European Commission within the framework of Jean Monnet Actions. The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
