World Experts Kick Off Conference Focusing on Preventing Mesothelioma and Other Occupational Diseases
Experts from around the world including the United States, Japan, and Australia have arrived in New Delhi, India for the international conference on environmental hazards. The conference entitled “Preventing Emerging Occupational and Environmental Risks in South Asia and Beyond” is focused on helping Asia prevent occupational diseases as well as to help physicians better understand asbestos-related diseases and the treatment of mesothelioma.
Gujarat Cancer Research Institute (GCRI) of India announced in August that 39 cases of pleural mesothelioma and three of peritoneal mesothelioma, cancers caused by exposure to airborne asbestos fibers, were reported.
The conference being held December 17-19, 2009, at the Maulana Azad Medical College (Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health) in New Delhi, India, was organized in collaboration with the Drexel School of Public Health in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Collegium Ramazzini in Italy, and Maulana Azad.
The organizing schools have ties with the Maulana Azad Medical College’s Centre for organizing world class training in occupational and environmental health.
Topics to be addressed during the conference include:
- Occupational & Environmental Health and Corporate Social Responsibility
- Exposure Assessment
- Cancer in the Workplace
- Heavy Metal Exposure and Health Risks
- Noise & Health
- Risks in Health Care work
- Occupational Lung Disorders
Professor Arthur Frank, MD, PhD, from Drexel, one of the featured speakers, has spoken previously regarding the high rates of mesothelioma in many countries as well as the impact mesothelioma, and other similar diseases, has on a global scale.
