This conference will provide an interdisciplinary platform to exchange knowledge and learn about the latest issues in environmental health. The main themes of this conference will include:

• Environmental health research
• Impacts of technological innovations (including analytic methods)
• Globalization and policy changes to environmental health
• Climate change
• Global environmental disparities
• Environmental health emergencies
• Environmental health ethics
• Human capital resources
• Opportunities for new partnerships at all levels

Environmental Health 2011 – Resetting Our Priorities will provide the opportunity to present your research, hear from leading experts in the field, network with a wide delegation of international researchers with common interests and concerns and enjoy the wonderful spirit of Salvador, Brazil.

Chair Ellen Silbergeld, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA
Chair Jerome Nriagu, University of Michigan, School of Public Health, USA

Contributions for oral and poster presentation at the conference are now invited. The deadline for submission of abstracts is Friday September 17, 2010.

Environmental Health 2011 – Resetting Our Priorities is organised and sponsored by Elsevier and the journals Environmental Research and Science of the Total Environment. Selected papers from the oral and poster presentations will be published in a special issue of these journals. The proceedings will be published and freely accessible on ScienceDirect.

Environmental Research: A Multidisciplinary Journal of Environmental Sciences, Ecology, and Public Health publishes original reports describing studies of the toxic effects of environmental agents on humans and animals. The principal aims of the journal are to define the etiology of environmentally induced illness and to increase understanding of the mechanisms by which environmental agents cause disease.

Environmental Research emphasizes multidisciplinary studies as well as studies employing biological markers of toxic exposure and effect. Occasional critical reviews and selected book reviews are included.

An International Journal for Scientific Research into the Environment and its Relationship with Humankind

The journal is an international medium for publication of original research on the environment with emphasis on changes caused by human activities. It is concerned with changes in the natural levels and distribution of chemical elements and their compounds that may affect the well-being of the living world, or represent a threat to human health. Papers in applied environmental chemistry and environmental health sciences are particularly encouraged.

The scope is multidisciplinary and international and the subjects covered include:

1. all aspects of the contamination or pollution of air, water, soil and the human food chain;
2. natural and human-induced environmental changes at the global, regional and local levels;
3. environmental risk management, remediation & treatment and environmental policy appraisal;
4. effects on human and ecosystem health related to abnormalities in the level and distribution of chemical elements and their compounds in the environment;
5. novel techniques and methods of chemistry and biochemistry applicable to environmental problems and environmental health;
6. gene-environment interactions.