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Risk Assessment Education Expands in Latin America
11-15 November 2024 Risk Assessment Course at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do NorteAn inaugural course was developed as part of an activity of the North Brazilian University Network that is based on RISK21 tools and case studies. The course is directed towards training future environmental regulators, and it is anticipated that the course will…
Read MoreBuilding Global Capacity in Environmental Toxicology
17-18 June 2024 Thailand Dr. Michelle Embry served as teaching faculty in a training course on Environmental Toxicology and Health at the Chulabhorn Research Institute, Thailand, for the second year. The course was attended by 29 international participants from 18 countries (Bhutan, Botswana, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, China, Ethiopia, India, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar,…
Read MoreLinking 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…
Read MoreSETAC 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.
Read MoreGRATC 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.
Read MoreLatin America Pesticide Residue Workshop (LAPRW)
21 – 24 May 2023 Panama City, Panama Presentation by Dr. Eliana Munarriz (U of Buenos Aires; HESI Board) on “Analytical Visualization Tool to Explore Pesticide Monitoring Data: Proof of Principle.”
Read MoreEvaluating Safety of Botanical Dietary Supplements
6 May 2023 ToxGuruKul Foundation Webinar, India Presentation by Dr. Cynthia Rider (NTP, NIEHS; Botanical Safety Consortium) and Ms. Connie Mitchell (HESI) on “Evaluating Safety of Botanical Dietary Supplements.”
Read MoreRisk 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…
Read MoreUNESCO-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…
Read MorePractical 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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