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The Health Effects Institute
"A Partnership of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Industry"

Joint WHO/HEI Meeting on Particulate Air Pollution
Brussels, Belgium
6 and 7 March 2001

LIST OF POSTERS PRESENTERS AND POSTER TITLES

Exposure assessment
  1. Matti Jantunen, EC Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy and National Public Health Institute, Kuopio, Finland. Source apportionment of PM 2.5 exposures in EXPOLIS Helsinki
  2. Mihalis Lazaridis, Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU), Kjeller, Norway. Characterisation of Urban Air Quality – Indoor/outdoor particulate matter chemical characteristics and source-to-inhaled dose relationship

    Epidemiology
  1. Josep Antó, Institut Municipal d’Investigació Mčdica, Barcelona, Spain. Studies of persons with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  2. Tom Bellander, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Current air pollution research in Stockholm
  3. Alfred Bernard, Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium. Biomarkers for the non-invasive assessment of acute and chronic effects of air pollutants
  4. Peter Burney, Guy's and St. Thomas' Medical and Dental School, London, UK. European prospective study of environment, allergy, and the lung
  5. Aaron Cohen, Health Effects Institute, USA. Studies of the effects of air pollution in persons with cardiac disease
  6. Francesco Forastiere, Lazio Regional Health Authority, Rome, Italy. Health effects of air pollution on susceptible subpopulations – traditional air pollutants, ultrafine particles and myocardial infarction (HEAPPSS)
  7. Helger Hauck, University Vienna, Vienna, Austria. AUPHEP – An Austrian project on aerosol characteristics and health effects
  8. Gerard Hoek, University of Wageningen, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
    -  Long-term effects of traffic-related air pollution on survival in a Dutch cohort study
    -   Molecular changes and genetic susceptibility in relation to air pollution and environmental tobacco smoke
  9. Klea Katsouyanni, University of Athens, Athens, Greece. Air pollution and health
  10. Nino Künzli, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. Chronic mortality and morbidity
  11. Sylvia Medina, Institut de Veille Sanitaire (InVS), Saint Maurice, France. Surveillance of the health effects of air pollution in Europe (APHEIS)
  12. Mark Nicolich, Exxon Biomedical Sciences, Annandale, NJ, USA. How to demonstrate the utility of the PM/mortality time-series models.
  13. Juha Pekkanen, National Public Health Institute, Kuopio, Finland. Daily variation of particulate air pollution and cardiorespiratory health among elderly subjects with coronary heart disease: The Ultra study
  14. Jonathan Samet, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. The national morbidity, mortality, and air pollution study (NMMAPS)
  15. Radim Šrám, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic. Czech studies of reproductive effects of air pollution
  16. Stephan Weiland, University of Münster, Münster, Germany. PDCAAE: Prevalence and determinants of childhood asthma and allergies across Europe
  17. Eric Wichmann, GSF-Forschungszentrum Institute of Epidemiology, Neuherberg, Germany. Daily mortality and fine and ultrafine particles in Erfurt, Germany.
  18. Alette Willis, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. Reanalysis of the Harvard Six Cities Study and the ACS study of particulate air pollution and mortality

    19. Experimental
  19. Kenneth Donaldson, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK. The cellular and molecular mechanisms of PM-mediated lung injury and systemic effects with special reference to the role of ultrafines
  20. Janice Dye, US EPA, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park, NC. US EPA toxicologic studies of PM-associated metals
  21. Jean-Paul Morin, INSERM E9920, Rouen, France. In vitro lung toxicity of engine exhausts using continuous flow sampling and exposure devices for organotypic cultures of lung tissue. A suitable tool for screening the potential benefit of reformulated fuels and engine technologies with respect to health related modelised endpoints
  22. Ian Mudway, St Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK. Exposure of normal and asthmatic subjects to fresh diesel exhaust
  23. Ethel Brits, Vito (TOX - Environmental Toxicology), Geel, Belgium.  Genotoxicity and immunotoxicity of airborne particles from Flanders, Belgium

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