U.S.-Ukraine JCM, Health Component, Kyiv, 18 October, 2011

1. U.S.-Ukraine JCM, Health Component, Kyiv, 18 October, 2011 Current research priorities in environmental health research OlenaTuros, D.Med.Sc O.M. Marzeiev Institute for Hygiene and Medical Ecology of AMSU Presenter: OksanaVoznyuk

2. Main directions • Hygienic assessment of the quality of ambient air, water, soil, industrial and communal waste utilization • Scientific backgrounds for development of systems of chemical, physic and biological safety • Study of the human health effects in relation to the environmental factors (environmental epidemiology) • Detection and analysis of the canrcer and mutagenic effects • Radiation safety and anti-radiation protection • Pollen monitoring • Electromagnetic fields studies • Scientific questions of the children’s and teenagers’ hygiene • Issues of nutrition • Development and practical application of various information technologies into practical hygiene and medical ecology  • Working out regulations, standards, and preventive programs of risk reduction for the purposes of practical hygiene and medical ecology

3. Institute’s Structure Scientific staff - 282 members Scientific fellows – 168 Academician – 1 Professors – 11 Doctors of science – 26 PhDs – 57 Young researchers – 41 Engineers and laboratory assistants – 50

4. International Programs and Projects • European project “Youth and Tobacco”, materials were published in the WHO Report, 2007; 2008. • IAEA UKR/9/021 “Intensification of the measures for nuclear and radiation safety” • EC – “Assessment of the consequences of the effects of technological residues of the uranium production” • Joint project with the Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki – study of the radiation risks • Joint project with the Swedish radiation regulating body – RADON • Ukrainian – Russian project “Accidental reaction on the radiation accident at the NPP” • Agreement with the World Allergy Organization (WAO) – methodology of the pollen monitoring for EC • EPA, Environmental Defense– Human Health Risk Assessment methodology implementation • Project of the World Bank – ecological partnership (Zaporizhia) • Joint project with the Illinois University – ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH • Project of the CEN TC 216 International Organization, group for the investigations of chemical disinfectants and antiseptics, FRG INSTITUTE FOR HYGIENE AND MEDICAL ECOLOGY IS A COLLABORATING CENTER OF THE WHO IN THE ISSUES OF AMBIENT AIRHYGIENE

5. Ambient Air Pollution and Risk Assessment Laboratory • Pollen monitoring • Collaboration with WAO since 2006 - Pollen monitoring in the ambient air - Development of the database of the micro objects of b biological contamination

6. ї Ambient Air Pollution and Risk Assessment Laboratory • EPA and Environmental Defense “Capacity Building for Environmental decision making in NIS” • EPA“Building Institutional Capacity of MENR” • World Bank “Ecological Partnership in Zaporizhia”

7. Human Health Risk Assessment Studies in Relation to Ambient Air Pollution • Odesa • Lviv • Kharkiv • Dnipropetrovsk • Kyiv • Zhaporizhia • Druzhkivka • Cherkasy

8. Identification of risk zones formed in the result of ambient air pollution coming from industrial enterprises Cancer risk levels

9. Identification of risk zones formed in the result of ambient air pollution coming from mobile sources

10. Thank You For Attention!

11. Її Contacts OlenaTuros Doctor of Medical Sciences Head of Ambient Air Pollution and Risk Assessment Lab IHME AMSU eturos@mail.ru OksanaVoznyuk Research fellow Ambient Air Pollution and Risk Assessment Lab IHME AMSU voznyuk.oksana@gmail.com