9:00 - 10:30 - Opening Session
Chair: Thomas Jakl [PDF, 124KB],
Deputy Director-General, Austrian Ministry for Sustainability and Tourism
Welcome by Austria
Josef Plank [PDF, 136KB],
Secretary General of the Austrian Ministry for Sustainability and Tourism
Welcome by the European Commission
Wolfgang Burtscher [PDF, 175KB],
Deputy Director-General, European Commission, DG Research and Innovation
Welcome by the Environment Agency Austria
Georg Rebernig [PDF, 134KB],
Managing Director of the Environment Agency Austria
European chemical policy and human biomonitoring
Kestutis Sadauskas [PDF, 115KB],
Director for Circular Economy and Green Growth, DG Environment, European Commission
Human Biomonitoring: an important tool to take evidence-based, targeted risk management measures and further improve food safety
Sabine Juelicher [PDF, 119KB],
Director for Food and Feed Safety, Innovation, DG Health and Food Safety, European Commission
Science and policy for a healthy future – HBM4EU, the European Human Biomonitoring Initiative
Marike Kolossa-Gehring [PDF, 164KB],
Head of Unit, German Environment Agency, Coordinator of HBM4EU
11:00 - 12:30 - Session A: How HBM contributes to policy making
Chair: Karen Van Campenhout [PDF, 157KB],
Head of Unit, Flemish Government, Department of Environment, Nature and Energy
Phthalates – HBM data used for risk management under REACH
Anna-Maria Andersson [PDF, 115KB],
Dept. of Growth and Reproduction, Copenhagen University Hospital; Joint presentation with the Danish Environment Agency
Role of HBM in responding to local contamination
Marco Martuzzi [PDF, 122KB],
WHO European Centre for Environment and Health, Programme Manager Health Impact Assessment
HBM Data and International Conventions
Katarina Magulova [PDF, 110KB],
Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm Convention
The added value of Human Biomonitoring for exposure analysis and risk assessment at work
Michael Bader [PDF, 118KB],
Professor (apl.), Vice President, Corporate Health Management, Human Biomonitoring & Industrial Hygiene, BASF SE, Germany
13:45 -15:15 - Session B: Shared knowledge for better science, better policies and informed citizens
Chair: Douglas Haines [PDF, 121KB],
Former Science Advisor for Health Canada
Building an European platform for Human Biomonitoring Surveys
Argelia Castaño [PDF, 162KB],
Director, National Centre for Environmental Health, Instituto de Salud Carlos
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HBM data and IPCHEM
Collecting and analysing EU wide HBM data and making them available through IPCHEM
Greet Schoeters [PDF, 133KB],
Programme Manager Environmental Health, Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Belgium
Creating impact: communicating HBM4EU results to end users
Catherine Ganzleben [PDF, 103KB],
Head of Group on Green Economy, Integrated Environmental Assessments Programme, European Environment Agency
A novel approach for risk assessment of chemical mixtures
Linking data from population based epidemiology and experimental toxicology by the use of new statistical tools
Carl-Gustaf Bornehag [PDF, 112KB],
Professor, Head of Public Health Sciences, Karlstad University, SwedenKarlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
15:45 -17:30: Session C: The future of HBM in Europe
Chair and discussion moderator: Georg Rebernig [PDF, 134KB]
Managing Director of the Environment Agency Austria
Scenarios for a sustainable next generation HBM
Robert Barouki [PDF, 116KB],
Director, Toxicology, Pharmacology and Cell Signalling, French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), France
High-Level Panel Discussion
Participants:
Hans Bruyninckx [PDF, 113KB]
Executive Director of the European Environment Agency
Lilian Busse [PDF, 142KB]
Head of Division Environmental Health and Protection of Ecosystems of the German Environment Agency
Bjørn Hansen [PDF, 127KB]
Executive Director of the European Chemicals Agency
Anne Paoletti [PDF, 129KB]
Scientific Director for Biology and Health, Directorate General for Research and Innovation, French Research Ministry
Kateřina Šebková [PDF, 202KB]
Director of the National Centre for Toxic Compounds and Stockholm Convention Regional Centre
Hans Verhagen [PDF, 136KB]
Senior Scientific Adviser, European Food Safety Authority
Open Discussion
17:30 - 17:45: Wrap up and Closing
Chair: Hanna Korhonen,
Ministerial Advisor, Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health
Closing words by the European Commission
Maria Pilar Aguar Fernandez [PDF, 191KB],
Head of Unit, Innovative Tools, Technologies and Concepts in Health Research, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
Closing words by the Austrian Presidency
Thomas Jakl [PDF, 124KB],
Deputy Director-General, Austrian Ministry for Sustainability and Tourism
Agenda [PDF, 1.8MB]