Building Global Capacity in Environmental Toxicology

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, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam). Eight Chulabhorn Graduate Institute students also participated in the course from various departments (Environmental Health and Environmental Toxicology).

HESI GRATC provided $12,000 to support travel fellowships for eight trainees from developing countries to attend the International Conference on Environmental Pollutants and Toxicants Affecting Health: Collaborative Efforts for Improving Quality of Life, to be held at the Convention Center, CRI, Bangkok, Thailand, from June 19–21, 2024. Six of these attendees will also be participating in the international training course on Environmental Toxicology and Health that will be held immediately following the conference at CRI from June 24–28, 2024. The eight trainees are all from the public sector (academia or government) and hail from Bhutan, Ethiopia, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, China, and Nepal.

The course was designed to provide participants with a background in environmental toxicology and risk assessment and was taught by several teaching faculty, including Professor Martin van den Berg (HESI Board of Trustees) and Professor Herman Autrup (former HESI Board of Trustees). Dr. Embry gave four lectures on ecological risk assessment and led a journal club discussion.