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Prevention and control of health risks of emerging contaminants and influencing mechanism

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The new pollutants have the characteristics of biotoxicity, environmental persistence, bioaccumulation, etc.. Its sources are relatively extensive, the harm is relatively serious, the environmental risk is relatively hidden, and the treatment is relatively difficult. At present, the new pollutants that are widely concerned at home and abroad mainly include persistent organic pollutants, endocrine disruptors, antibiotics and so on, which are controlled by international conventions. China's governance work started late and the work foundation is weak. The sub-forum on the Prevention, Control and Impact Mechanism of health Risks of New Pollutants will be held,aiming convene experts in the field of new pollutants for joint discussions, strengthen scientific research cooperation and exchanges, jointly promote the assessment and prevention of environmental and health risks of new pollutants, and actively promote the standards-system construction of environmental risk management policies for toxic and harmful chemical substances.

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  • Lihua REN Associate Professor

    Fudan University

    Lihua Ren is an associate researcher and doctoral supervisor at Peking University Health Science Center, vice president of International Ecological Economy Association, standing member of Environmental and Reproductive Health Branch of China Eugenics Association, member of Alternative Methods and Transformation Professional Committee of China Environmental Mutagen Association, National Graduate Education Evaluation and Monitoring Expert. Her research focuses on environmental and reproductive health and health risks from exposure to new pollutants in early life. She presided over 7 projects including the National Natural Science Foundation, and participated in 4 international and domestic cooperation projects. She has published more than 50 articles in both Chinese and English in authoritative academic journals at home and abroad, obtained 2 invention patents. And she served as an expert reviewer for several authoritative journals in both Chinese and English.
  • Yunhui ZHANG Professor

    Peking University

    Yunhui Zhang is a professor and doctoral supervisor. She is a head of the teaching and research section at the Department of Environmental Healthin School of Public Health at Fudan University, and Shanghai Environment and Health Youth Science Innovation. His research direction is children's environmental health studies . He is responsible for the construction of Shanghai parent-child cohort, and undertake the National Key research and development program of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the National Natural Science Foundation and other projects. He has published more than 130 academic papers, edited 4 monographs, and won the second prize of Science and Technology of higher Education institutions of the Ministry of Education, the third prize of Science and Technology of the Chinese Preventive Medical Association and the second prize of Shanghai Science and Technology Progress.

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