Linking Risk Assessment and Risk Communication

08 November 2023 Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa Michelle Embry (HESI Deputy Director) served as a lecturer for a training course hosted and organized by CropLife Africa Middle East that was held in Grand Bassam, Cote D’Ivoire. She gave a virtual lecture on “Linking risk assessment and risk communication.” The session was attended by delegates from…

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SETAC LATAM 2023

17 – 20 September 2023 Montevideo, Uruguay Ecological NAM presentation (Michelle Embry) RISK21 overview presentation (Eliana Munarriz) Attending the “Latin America Chemical Management Symposium” View conference details here.

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GRATC Training Course on Environmental Toxicology – Mongolia

23 – 27 June 2023 Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Course organized and led by the Chulabhorn Research Institute (Thailand) to provide training to scientists in Mongolia.Program Director: Professor Dr. HRH Princess Chulabhorn Mahidol Dr. Michelle Embry (HESI) is providing lectures on the ecological risk assessment components of the course.

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Risk Assessment Course on Agrochemicals – Rwanda

March 2023 Kigali, Rwanda Risk assessment course on agrochemicals held in Kigali, Rwanda led by the East Africa Community (EAC) with support from USAID Kenya & East Africa, USDA via U of Missouri, and Crop Life Africa Middle East (HESI not directly involved): Via Edward Chikwana (Corteva), RISK21 was introduced Output from the training course…

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UNESCO-IWRA Online Conference on Emerging Pollutants

17 – 19 January 2023 Virtual, Conference Presentation by Dr. Eliana Munarriz (U of Buenos Aires; HESI Board) on “How to prioritize agrochemical pollutant evaluation in drinking water? RISK21 tools provide a framework for chemical risk assessment”; this presentation highlighted work performed for a training course on prioritization of monitoring for pesticides in surface water…

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Practical Application of the Risk Assessment Paradigm to Solve Real-World Problems

6 -7 December, 2022 Bangkok, Thailand Modules taught by Dr. Michelle Embry (HESI) related to the Risk Assessment in the 21st Century (RISK21) Framework and included a hands-on interactive case studies based on real-world issues that were developed by the RISK21 team. There were sixty course participants from government and academic institutions hailing from sixteen…

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