Programme-at-a-Glance
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12.00 – 17.00 |
Pre Conference Workshop |
Room 4 |
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13.00 – 17.00 |
Pre Conference Tour |
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18.00 – 21.00 |
Conference Opening Reception |
Rooms 1-3 |
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CONFERENCE DAY 1: 28 MAY 2020 |
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08.15 – 08.30 |
Conference Welcome Session |
Auditorium |
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08.30 – 09.15 |
Opening Keynote: Working and Breathing in Global Africa. |
Auditorium |
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09.15 – 10.45 |
Abstracts Session 1: Colonialism, Crossroads of Empires and Workers’ Health |
Auditorium |
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10.45 – 11.15 |
TEA and COFFEE |
Dining Room |
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11.15 – 12.00 |
Keynote 2: The Guardians of Workers’ Bodies: Rise and Fall of the Role of Unions in OEH |
Auditorium |
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12.00 – 13.30 |
Abstracts Session 2: Old Occupations: Mining History and Health |
Auditorium |
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13.30 – 14.30 |
LUNCH |
Dining Room |
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14.30 – 16.00 |
Panel Discussion: Historical perspectives of OEH in Africa – the tracing of the emergence of disciplines in occupational health |
Auditorium |
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16.00 – 16.30 |
TEA AND COFFEE |
Dining Room |
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16.30 – 17.30 |
Parallel Abstract Sessions 3.1: Truth, Hope and the Unknown |
Auditorium |
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16.30 – 17.30 |
Parallel Abstract Sessions 3.2: Organisation and Government |
Room 4 |
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17.30 – 18.15 |
ICOH SC Business Meeting |
Auditorium |
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19.00 – 23.00 |
Conference Dinner |
TBC |
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CONFERENCE DAY 2: 29 MAY 2020 |
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08.45 – 9.30 |
Keynote 3: Occupational Health as a Ligament of Empire: Histories from the Gold Coast (Ghana) & India |
Auditorium |
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09.30 – 11.00 |
Abstracts Session 4: Work processes and Occupational Diseases |
Auditorium |
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11.00 – 11.30 |
TEA AND COFFEE |
Dining Room |
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11.30 – 13.00 |
Parallel Abstract Sessions 5.1: Migration, Colonies and Worker Health |
Auditorium |
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11.30 – 13.00 |
Parallel Abstract Sessions 5.2: Informal Work, Migrant Workers and Women |
Room 4 |
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13.00 – 14.00 |
LUNCH |
Dining Room |
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14.00 – 15.00 |
Poster Presentation and Discussion (See Titles and Presenters below) |
Rooms 1 – 3 |
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15.00 – 15.45 |
Keynote 4: Immigration and Indentured Labour |
Auditorium |
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15.45 – 16.00 |
Presentation of International Award |
Auditorium |
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16.00 – 16.45 |
Closing Keynote: The Invisible aspects of OEH |
Auditorium |
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16.45 – 17.00 |
Conference Closure |
Auditorium |
Programme Detail
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PRE CONFERENCE WORKSHOP: 27 MAY 2020 |
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12.00 – 13.00 |
Workshop Social |
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Dining Room |
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13.00 – 15.00 |
Bootcamp: How to do history in OEH – Session 1 |
Catherine Burns, Thembisa Waetjen; Gabrielle Hecht, Keith Breckenridge |
Room 4 |
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15.00 – 15.30 |
Workshop Tea |
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Dining Room |
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15.30 – 17.00 |
Bootcamp: How to do history in OEH – Session 2 |
Catherine Burns, Thembisa Waetjen; Gabrielle Hecht, Keith Breckenridge |
Room 4 |
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PRE CONFERENCE TOUR: 27 MAY 2020 |
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12.30 – 17.00 |
Tour of Durban and Museums: Participants to meet in Foyer of Conference Venue
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CONFERENCE OPENING RECEPTION |
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18.00 – 21.00 |
Rooms 1-3 at Conference Venue |
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CONFERENCE DAY 1: 28 MAY 2020 |
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08.15 – 08.20 |
Conference Welcome |
Conference Chair: Rajen Naidoo |
Auditorium |
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08.20 – 08.25 |
ICOH SC Welcome |
ICOH SC Chair: Paul Blanc |
Auditorium |
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08.25 – 08.30 |
UKZN Welcome |
DVC Health Sciences: Prof Busi Ncama |
Auditorium |
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08.30 – 09.15 |
Opening Keynote: Working and Breathing in Global Africa. |
Gabrielle Hecht (Chair: Kjell Toren) |
Auditorium |
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09.15 – 10.45 |
Abstracts Session 1: Colonialism, Crossroads of Empires and Workers’ Health Co-Chairs: Kjell Toren and Saloshni Naidoo |
Auditorium |
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09.15 – 09.30 |
Workers health and the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga in the Belgian Congo |
Nemery B |
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09.30 – 09.45 |
A Global History of Occupational Health and Safety in Agriculture. |
Schenker, M |
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09.45 – 10.00 |
Occupational Health of Migrant Workers: The colonial legacy of unhealthy working conditions |
Seneviratne M |
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10.00 – 10.15 |
The Colonial Legacy of Mercury Toxicity: The Story of Thor and a Tribute to Mark Colvin |
Hariparsad, S |
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10.15 – 10.30 |
Work Accident Insurance in the Italian colonial empire |
Riva, MA |
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10.30 – 10.45 |
“Left behind”: Migrant farm workers & the necessity of cross-sector collaboration for health & wellbeing in South Africa |
De Gruchy, T |
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10.45 – 11.15 |
TEA and COFFEE |
Dining Room |
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11.15 – 12.00 |
Keynote 2: The Guardians of Workers’ Bodies: Rise and Fall of the Role of Unions in OEH |
Arthur McIvor (Chair: Rodney Ehrlich) |
Auditorium |
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12.00 – 13.30 |
Abstracts Session 2: Old Occupations: Mining History and Health Co-Chairs: Rodney Ehrlich and Thembisa Waetjen |
Auditorium |
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12.00 – 12.15 |
Leveraging the association between silica dust and autoimmunity to explore the role of “environment” in idiopathic systemic disorders. |
Cavalin, C |
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12.15 – 12.30 |
Reconstructing the fragmented history of “Colinet-Caplan syndrome”. |
Ronsman, S |
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12.30 – 12.45 |
Silicotuberculosis – unstable in history and neglected in science. |
Ehrlich, R |
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12.45 – 13.00 |
The legacy of the manufacture and use of asbestos-cement in Katanga (DR Congo) |
Nemery, B |
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13.00 – 13.15 |
Social and Clinical History of Occupational Diseases in Chilean Mining |
Parra, M |
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13.15 – 13.30 |
Historical Response to Environmental Disasters in the United States: A review of governmental intervention |
Wilkenfeld, M |
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13.30 – 14.30 |
LUNCH |
Dining Room |
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14.30 – 16.00 |
Panel Discussion: Historical perspectives of OEH in Africa – the tracing of the emergence of disciplines in occupational health
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Panellists: Rene Loewenson (Zimbabwe), Edith Clarke (Ghana), Chafiq Hicham (Morocco), David Stanton (South Africa) (Chair: Sophia Kisting-Cairncross) |
Auditorium |
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16.00 – 16.30 |
TEA AND COFFEE |
Dining Room |
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16.30 – 17.30 |
Parallel Abstract Sessions 3.1: Truth, Hope and the Unknown Co-Chairs: Muzimkhulu Zungu and Sujatha Hariparsad |
Auditorium |
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16.30 – 16.45 |
Legal Discovery and the Search for Truth. |
Castleman, B |
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16.45 – 17.00 |
The history of a hypothesis: On acute and chronic kidney disease in industrial agriculture. |
Jakobsson, K |
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17.00 – 17.15 |
Three decades of HIV and TB in the South African Mining Industry: from despair to hope. |
Govender, VG |
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17.15 – 17.30 |
Artificial stone silicosis as a new public issue: the Spanish case |
Menéndez-Navarro, A |
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16.30 – 17.30 |
Parallel Abstract Sessions 3.2: Organisation and Government Co-Chairs: Rene Loewensen and Shumani Phaswana |
Room 4 |
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16.30 – 16.45 |
The contribution of ICOH Congresses in the evolution of knowledge and preventive actions for the protection of workers’ health and safety |
Lavicoli, S |
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16.45 – 17.00 |
The History of MEDICHEM and the ICOH SC on Chemical Industry. |
Coombs WM |
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17.00 – 17.15 |
Occupational Hygiene in Mining in Africa |
Badenhorst, C |
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17.15 – 18.15 |
ICOH SC Business Meeting |
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Auditorium |
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19.00 – 23.00 |
Conference Dinner Shuttle services will be provided from the Coastlands on the Ridge Hotel from 18.45 |
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TBC |
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CONFERENCE DAY 2: 29 MAY 2020 |
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08.45 – 9.30 |
Keynote 3: Occupational Health as a Ligament of Empire: Histories from the Gold Coast (Ghana) & India |
Laura Alfers (Chair: Gabrielle Hecht) |
Auditorium |
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09.30 – 11.00 |
Abstracts Session 4: Work processes and Occupational Diseases Co-Chairs: Shahieda Adams and Alfredo Menéndez-Navarro |
Auditorium |
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09.30 – 09.45 |
Thomasslag pneumonia |
Toren, K |
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09.45 – 10.00 |
Importance of historical information for exposure assessment in the soft tissue paper industry |
Andersson, E |
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10.00 – 10.15 |
Benzene and leukemia. The contribution of the occupational medicine in Northern Italy |
Belingheri, M |
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10.15 – 10.30 |
“Tennis leg”: how disease nosology can obscure work-relatedness. |
Domeracki, S |
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10.30 – 10.45 |
A burning issue: the history of industrial burns and scalds in nineteenth-century Britain |
Reinarz, J |
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10.45 – 11.00 |
The good in the racist Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Act, 78 of 1973 |
Balfour, T |
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11.00 – 11.30 |
TEA AND COFFEE |
Dining Room |
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11.30 – 13.00 |
Parallel Abstract Sessions 5.1: Migration, Colonies and Worker Health Co-Chairs: Simon Mamuya and Edith Clarke |
Auditorium |
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11.30 – 12.00 |
Lead Talk: The European Greed for Gold and Silver, Slavery, and the Development of Occupational Health |
David Stanton – |
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12.00 – 12.15 |
Healthcare facilities for migrant workers in 18th century Almaden mercury mines. |
Menéndez-Navarro, A |
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12.15 – 12.30 |
Jean Rodier: a pioneer in occupational medicine in Morocco. |
Hicham, C |
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12.30 – 12.45 |
Historic Evolution of Occupational Health of Migrant Workers in the US: From social vulnerability to strong advocacy. |
Salmen-Navarro, A |
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12.45 – 13.00 |
Advancing Our Understanding of Migration, Work, and Health by Exploring Our Historical Roots in Social Medicine. |
Flynn, M |
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11.30 – 13.00 |
Parallel Abstract Sessions 5.2: Informal Work, Migrant Workers and Women Co-Chairs: Keith Breckenridge and Julius Fobil |
Room 4 |
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11.30 – 12.00 |
Lead Talk: Decolonizing Occupational Health: Informal Workers and the Struggle for Occupational Health |
Francie Lund |
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12.00 – 12.15 |
The role of the first industrial heath nurse in migrant workers’ health |
Hirdi, H |
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12.15 – 12.30 |
History of the Braceros —Migrant Laborers in California, US. |
Das, R |
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12.30 – 12.45 |
A hidden history – perspectives on the role of women in the history of occupational and environmental health and safety in Africa in the past 60 years |
Kisting-Cairncross, S |
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12.45 – 13.00 |
Women and Girls In Mine Labour: From Italy To South Africa. |
Salerno, S |
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13.00 – 14.00 |
LUNCH |
Dining Room |
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14.00 – 15.00 |
Poster Presentation and Discussion (See Titles and Presenters below) |
Paul Blanc and Rajen Naidoo |
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15.00 – 15.45 |
Keynote 4: Immigration and Indentured Labour |
Ashwin Desai (Chair: Francie Lund) |
Auditorium |
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15.45 – 16.00 |
Presentation of International Award |
Paul Blanc and Kjell Toren |
Auditorium |
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16.00 – 16.45 |
Closing Keynote: The Invisible aspects of OEH |
Keith Breckenridge (Chair: Paul Blanc) |
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16.45 – 17.00 |
Conference Closure |
Paul Blanc and Rajen Naidoo |
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Poster Themes [presentation at 14.00 – 15.00 on Day 2]
Colonialism and Health (Venue: Room 1)
P1. Silvere Kokou KEVI. The first steps of occupational health during the German colonization in Togo: 1884-1914.
P2. Vearey, J. Decolonizing migrant health in the world of work – from vectors to people
P3. Acquah A.A. Electronic waste recycling and its associated ergonomic exposures among e-waste workers at Agbogbloshie, Accra.
Mining and Health (Venue: Room 1)
P4. Renton, K. Big time hazard in small scale mining.
P5. Nkhama, E. Effect of mining related air pollution on human health between 2000 – 2018: the case of Zambia.
P6. Ndlovu, N. Evaluation of production of research outputs of the Pathology Division, National Institute for Occupational Health.
P7. Govender, VG. A History of the Mine Medical Professionals Association.
P8. Riva, M.A. The contribution of Italian doctors on silicosis and asbestosis at the 1930 International Labor Office Conference on Silicosis in Johannesburg.
Agricultural and Environmental Exposures (Venue: Room 2)
P9. Pelclova, D. 50 years history and consequences of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin intoxication in the Czech workers.
P10. Glaser, J. A way forward: The Adelante Initiative, protecting laborers in a warming world.
P11. Njee RM. Assessment of exposure and health impact of indoor biomass smoke sources in Rombo, Tanzania.
Work Processes and Exposures (Venue: Room 2)
P12. Photphisutthiphong, T. Periodic health examination of female sex workers in Bangkok, Thailand.
P13. Dahlman-Höglund, A. Metal working fluids and bacteria.
P14. Kwarteng, L. The history of e-waste at Agbobloshie, Accra, Ghana.
Organisation (Venue: Room 2)
P15. Mamuya, S. Collaborative effort to build capacity for Universities in the reduction of the occupational injuries and diseases among workers in Tanzania.
P16. Zaidi, M.A. ICOH-SAC: A short history; yet significant contribution.
P17. Kocks DJ. SASOM 70: 1948 to date.
P18. Amoabeng N. History of Occupational Health and Safety Laws in Ghana.
P19. Davies, K. History of the Scientific Committee on Occupational Health Nursing then till now.
P20. Rees, D. Margaret Becklake – A lifetime advancing occupational health
P21. Lu, JL. History of Occupational Health in the Philippines
Migrant and Informal Work (Venue: Room 3)
P22. Kedote, N.M. Needs, opportunities and challenges assessment of environmental and occupational health teaching and research sustainability in West Africa.
P23. Ribeiro, E.A. Asbestos in Brazil: The process of creating agendas, subjects and policies.
P24. Hui, C. Decolonizing migrant heath – flipping the map.
P25. Takyi, SA. A historical perspective of dietary transitions and occupational exposures among informal e-waste workers in Ghana