from aqueous solutions

In The Name of GOD

Prof. Mohammad Hadi Dehghani

Scientic Secretary

Dr. Mahmood Alimohammadi

Executive Secretary

Dr. Amir Hossein Takian

International Secretary

Prof. Ali Jafarian

President of the Conference

Prof. Alireza Mesdaghinia

President of the Iranian Association of Environmental Health

Conference Organization

1st International and 19th National Conference on Environmental Health

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Scientific Committee


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Mohammad Hasan Ehrampoosh

Ali Ardalan

Amir Ahamad Akhavan

Jrg Spitz

Patrick Smeets Hosseinali Asgharnia

Water treatment and air pollution

Dean, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences Yazd, Iran

E-mail: [email protected]

Disaster risk managementMember of Institute of Environmental Research CenterDirector of Disaster and Emergency Health at Tehran Uni-versity of Medical SciencesAdviser to Health Deputy Minister, and Director of Disaster Risk Management Office at I.R.Iran Ministry of Health and Medical Education


Medical Entomology

Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran


Nuclear Medicine

Prof. Spitz is the founder and Executive Director of the Academy for Human Medicine, Germany


Microbial drinking water safety, Risk assessment, Risk management

Senior scientific researcher at KWR Watercycle Re-search Institute, Netherlands


Environmental Health EngineeringWaste managementAssistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Babol University of Medical Sciences-Head of International Branch of Babol University of Medical Sciences



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Mohammad Mehdi Amin

Edris Bazrafshan

Angelika Maria TritscherBijan Bina

Yuri Bruinen de Bruin

Ahmad Basel Al-Yousfi

Water and Wastewater treatment processes

Dean, School of Public Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran


Water treatment

Faculty member of Zahedan University of Medical Sciences at Zahedan University of Medical Sci-ences, Zahedan, Iran


Toxicologist

EUROTOX Registered ToxicologistMember of EUROTOX, SOT, IUTOX


Wastewater treatment processes Environmen-tal Risk Assessment

Head of Department of Environmental Health En-gineering, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran


Emerging Environmental and Human Risk

Science and Policy Officer on human Environmen-tal Health at RIVM, European Commission


International Petrochemical

Director, Center for Environmental Health Activities, Regional office for the eastern Mediterranean WHO



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Amirhossein Takian

Nematallah Jafarzadeh

Emily Chan

Gholamreza Jahed

Ahmad Joneidi Jafari

Fazllolah Changani

MD-PhD in Health Policy & Global Health

Chair and Associate Professor Department of Global Health & Public Policy AND Associate Dean School of Public Health-Tehran University of Medical Sciences


Environmental quality monitoring and mod-eling

Professor, Faculty Member of Environmental Health Engineering, Jondishapour University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran


Climate Change and Health

Prof. and Center Director, Collaborating Center for Oxford University and CUHK for disaster and Medi-cal Humanitarian Responses


Food safety

Faculty Member of Environmental Health Engineer-ing


Occupational Health Air pollution & health

Professor, Environmental HealthDepartment of Environmental Health Engineer-ing, school of public health, Iran university of Medi-cal sciences, Tehran, Iran


Industrial Wastewater treatment

Faculty Member of Environmental Health Engineer-ing



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Mohammad Sadegh Hassanvand

Zahra Derakhshan

Carlos Dora

Mohammad Hosseini

Sina Dobaradaran

Mansooreh Dehghani

Air pollution & Control

Assistant Professor , Academic Member of Center for Air Pollution Research, Institute for Environmen-tal Research (IER), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran


Water and wastewater treatment

PhD Student of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences Yazd, Iran


Health impacts of sector policies

Coordinator of Public Health and Environmental Department at WHO


Air pollution

Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences


Environmental pollution monitoringEnvironment Medicine, Environmental pollutants control and treatment based on emerging pollutants

Head of Department of Environmental Health Engineer-ing, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran


Soil pollution, Wastewater treatment

Head of Department of Environmental Health En-gineering, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran



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Naser Razeghi

Andrea Rother

Mohammad Ali Zazooli

Mohammad Hadi Dehghani

Nooshin Rastkari

Roshanak Rezaei Kalantary

Water management, Water desalination

Professor of Tehran University

Industrial Wastewater treatment

Associate Professor and Head of the Environmen-tal Health Division in the School of Public Health and Family Medicine at the University of Cape Town, South Africa


Water treatment

Dean, School of Public Health, Mazandaran Uni-versity of Medical Sciences


Air pollution, Solid waste

Professor, Head of Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran


Food Safety and Toxicology

Associated Professor , Academic Member of Center for Air Pollution Research, Institute for Environmental Research (IER), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran


Water treatment, Bioremediation of water and soil

Professor, Faculty member of Environmental Health Engineering Department, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran



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Morteza Zaeim

Seyed Jamaledin Shahtaheri

Nabi Shariatifar

Mohammad Reza Samaei

Mahmood Shariat

Reza Shokouhi

Medical Entomology

Coordinator of the Vector Ecology and Manage-ment Unit, WHO, Switzerland


Occupational, Environmental, and Analytical ToxicologyDean of the Research Deputy, Institute for Environ-mental Research, Professor in Occupational HealthDepartment of Occupational Health EngineeringSchool of Public HealthE-mail: [email protected]

Food safety

Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran


Environmental health engineering(Solid Waste Management, Industrial Wastewa-ter)Assistant Professor of Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences


Microbiology, Environmental Impact Assess-ment

Professor of Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Tehran University of Medical Sci-ences, Tehran, Iran

E-mail:

Environmental Health Engineering

Associated Professor of Department of Environ-mental Health Engineering, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran

E-mail:


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Parisa Sedighara

Mahmood Alimohammadi

Mansour Ghiassedin

Mansour Shamsipour

Ahmad Ameri

Ghasemali Omrani

Food toxicology

Associated Professor, Department of Environ-mental Health Engineering, Tehran University of Medical Sciences


Water and Wastewater Treatment Processes

Associated Professor of Department of Environ-mental Health Engineering, Tehran University of Medical Sciences


Air pollution

Professor of Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Tehran University of Medical Sciences


Air pollution & health, environmental epidemiol-ogy, public health, epidemiology, air pollutionAssistant professor , faculty member of Department of Research Methodology and Data Analysis, Insti-tute for Environmental Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IranE-mail: [email protected]

Water and Wastewater Treatment Processes

Professor of Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Iran University of Medical Sciences

E-mail:

Waste Management

Professor of Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Tehran University of Medical Sciences and Islamic Azad University



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Mehrdad Farrokhi

Nino Kuenzli

Anooshirvan Mohseni

Mitra Gholami

Mahdi Farzadkia

Monireh Majlesi

Water and Wastewater treatment processes

Academic member of Health in Disaster, Univer-sity of social welfare and rehabilitation sciences, Tehran, Iran


Environmental epidemiology

Professor for Public Health, Deputy Director Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), Basel, and Dean of the Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+), Switzerland


Water and Wastewater treatment

Associated Professor of Department of Environ-mental Health Engineering, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Mazandaran, Iran


Biotechnology and microbiology

Professor, Faculty member of Environmental Health Engineering Department, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran


Industrial Wastewater Treatment, Solid waste management

Professor, Faculty member of Environmental Health Engineering Department, Iran University of Medical Sciences


Solid Waste Management

Associated Professor, Faculty member of Envi-ronmental Health Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran



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Amir Hossein Mahvi

Ashraf Sadat Mesbah

Masoumeh Moghadam Arjmand

Mehdi Mokhtari

Alireza Mesdaghinia

Mazen Almalkawi

Water pollution and control

Assistant Professor of Department of Environ-mental Health Engineering, Tehran University of Medical Sciences



Professor of Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Tehran University of Medical Sciences



Assistant Professor of Department of Environ-mental Health Engineering, Tehran University of Medical Sciences


Waste Management

Head of Department of Environmental Health En-gineering, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.


Wastewater Treatment Processes

Chief of Iranian Association of Environmental Health


Water and Environment Information Manage-mentAdvisor on Environmental Health Exposures, at the World Health Organization (WHO), Regional Center for Environmental Health Action (CEHA), Amman, JordanE-mail: [email protected]


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Mohammad Malakootian

Simin Nasseri

Ramin Nabizadeh Nodehi

Mohammad Reza Monazzam

Virginia Murray

Kazem Naddafi

Environmental Health EngineeringHead of Environmental Health Department and chief of Environmental Health Engineering Re-search Center, Kerman University of Medical Sci-ences, Kerman, Iran


Water pollution control, Water and Wastewater treatment processesDirector, Center for Water Quality Research (CWQR), institute for environmental research (IER), Tehran university of medical sciences (TUMS), - Deputy for Research, School of Public Health, Tehran university of medical sciences (TUMS), - Editor- in-Chief, JEHSE



Professor, Faculty member of Environmental Health Engineering, Tehran University of Medical Sciences


Occupational, Environmental HealthRadiation, Noise and sound PollutionProfessor, Faculty member of Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Health and Center for Air Pollution Research (CAPR), Institute for Environmental Research (IER), Tehran University of Medical Sciences


Climate Change

Consultant in Global Risk Reduction at Public Health, England

E-mail:

Air pollution and Control




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Mohammad Noori Sepehr

Andrea Niemann

Eugenio Raul Villar

Mahnaz Nikaeen

Forough Vaezi

Mahdi Hadi

Water and Wastewater treatment

Dean, School of Public HealthHead of Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Alborz, Iran


Hydro morphology, Morph dynamics of rivers

Prof. of Hydraulic Engineering and Water resources Management


Community Health in Developing Countries

Coordinator of the Social Determinants of Health Team


Environmental Microbiology, Wastewater treat-ment processes

Professor, Faculty member of Environmental Health Engineering Department, Isfahan University of medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran



Assistant Professor, Faculty member of Environ-mental Health Engineering, Tehran University of Medical Sciences

E-mail:

Environmental Modeling, Water Quality, Risk Assessment

Researcher, Center for Water Quality Research, Institute for Environmental Research (IER), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

E-mail:


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Ahmadreza Yazdanbakhsh

Zabihollah Yousefi

Kamyar Yaghmaeian

Masoud Yunesian

Water and Wastewater Microbiology and Chemistry

Professor, Faculty member of Environmental Health Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences


Water and Wastewater treatment, Radon Analysis

Academic member of Environmental Health En-gineering Department, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Mazandaran, Iran





Air Pollution of Epidemiology

Vice Chancellor for Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran



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Administrative Committee

Mahmood Alimohammadi

Gholamreza Hassanpour Faezeh Izadpanah

Amirhossein Takian Gholamreza Zomorodian

Seyed Reza Hosseini Sedeh

Kamyar Yaghmaeian


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Faezeh IzadpanahMahmood Alimohammadi

Maryam Hashem-Khani

Elnaz Iravani Leila KaramiSaeedeh Hemmati Borji

Maryam Ghani

Mina AghaeiMasoumeh Askari

Gholamreza Zomorodian

Fatemeh Ebrahimpour

Mahyar Abdi

Executive Committee


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Fatemeh MomenihaBabak Mahmoodi Niaz Mahdi-Esfahani

Shima KhorsandLeila Kazemi Afsaneh Madadi

Leila Yaghoubi Soraya Zare

Sahar ShariSoudeh Pazooki Zahra Peykarporsan


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Student Committee

Masoud Binesh Brahmand

Hamidreza Ghafari

Hoda Amiri

Maryam Ghanbarian

Maryam Faraji Marjan Ghanbarian

Seyed Yaser Hashemi

Sassan Faridi

Zahra Attafar


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Maryam MostafaeiKamaledin Karimian Sadegh Niazi

Zahra SoleimaniHassan Pasalari


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message

H.E. Prof. S. Hassan HashemiHonourable Minister of Health & Medical EducationOn the occasion of:The 1st International and 19th National Conference on Environmental Health and Sustainable Development

Maintaining and improving public health is one of the essential foundations of sustainable de-velopment, and this important goal will not be attained unless a healthy environment free of pollutants is provided for the humankind. In todays world, however, due to lack of consistency between the growth and expansion of human activities and environment, dire consequences such as environmental crises, climate change and its natural imbalance, as well as various types of pollution are seriously threatening the human life. Ironically, we know, more than ever now, without a secure and healthy environment human beings will not be able to live their normal life in a desirable manner.Our religion, Islam considers humans health as the most important and most valuable divine bounty, which we should try to maintain and improve.In this arena, through identifying the environmental pollutants and presenting scientific and practical solutions and interventions to control and reduce them, the environmental health spe-cialists play a highly valuable role in global public health.On the occasion of 1st international and 19th national conference on environmental health and sustainable development, I would like to seize the opportunity to request the distinguished scholars and researchers to pay desired attention to various aspects of this vital issue, and take effective steps in identifying the most important problems and introducing appropriate solutions to them aiming to provide a healthier environment for our compatriots.


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message

Seyyed Hassan Hashemi, MD

Minister of Health and Medical Education, I.R. Iran

It should be noted that under the banner of Health Transformation Plan, the Ministry of Health and Medical Education has been paying special attention to public health, especially environ-mental health. Through optimal recruitment of environmental health graduates as well as col-laboration with the private sector, we will, hopefully, conduct more effective measures to foster environmental health during the current year.Furthermore, in line with global efforts, i.e. sustainable development goals, our health system in Iran is committed to enjoy the views of experts, policymakers, and executive managers in the field of environmental health, in protecting the individuals health and maintaining a healthy environment for the benefit of all our citizens and humankind around the globe.Finally, I would like to express my sincere gratitude towards the respected faculty members, scholars, researchers, students, experts, inspectors, and all the diligent human resources in environmental health across the country for their effective and invaluable services. I pray to Al-lah Almighty for their health, prosperity and continuous success in their endeavours.

H.E. Prof. S. Hassan Hashemi


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Prof. Ali Jafarian born in 1968 in Tehran-Iran, did his elementary school in Alavi institute, entered Medical school of Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) in 1985 and graduated in 1992. He did his residency of General Surgery in Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex-TUMS from 1994 to 1998. He was appointed as faculty member of TUMS in department of General Surgery from 1999 after one year of service in a peripheral province. Dr. Jafarian was awarded the certificate of Vascular Surgery in 2006 and focused on Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation from that time afterwards. He passed several short courses on Medical Education in TUMS and University of Dundee and did his sabbatical leave on Liver Transplantation and Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery in Cleveland Clinic and Mayo Clinic, USA, in 2011. He is the Founding director of the Liver Transplantation program since 2002 and the head of the division of hepatopancreatobiliary and Liver Transplantation in Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex since 2008. He has also double affiliation in department of Medical Ethics since 2002 and department of Medical Education since 2013. Dr Jafarian was program director of general surgery clerkship and residency in years 2000-2005 and member of national Residency Entrance Examinations boards from 2000 to 2009. He worked with Iranian Graduate Medical Council from 2006 to 2012 as a member or associate. He is also appointed as a member national board of General Surgery since 2015. He was executive advisor for Chancellor of TUMS in 2005-2008, Dean of Medical School in 2008-2009 and Vice Chancellor in 2009-2011. Dr. Ali Jafarian was appointed as the Chancellor of Tehran University of Medical Sciences since September 2013 in which 13000 students, 1650 faculty members and 15000 employees are working in 11 schools, 16 teaching hospitals with 4000 beds and 3 health care networks covering 2.8 million population of south Tehran. Since then, he is also a member of Supreme council for Science, Research and Technology and National Council of Evaluation of State Education. He has participated in several WHO meetings as an expert especially in the fields of leadership, education and human resources for health.

Biography

Prof. Ali JafarianChancellor of Tehran University of Medical Sciences & President of EHSDG 2016


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The current world is threatened by numerouschallenges including: communicable and non-communicable diseases, emerging and reemerging diseases, air and water pollution, unhealthy life style, high burden ofunder 5 year mortality, mothershealth and empowerment, health inequalities, and terrorism, wars andinjuries, consequences of which has affected both environmental health as well as socio-economic function of societies.Despite globalimprovements in reducing the present challenges to environmental and other dimensions of public health, national and international multisectoral collaboration and public participation are still the key to fulfilling sustainable development goals (SDGs) to achieve sustainable life First international and 19th national conference of environmental health and sustainable development (EHSDG 2016), which is hosted by Tehran University of Medical Sciences, is aiming to elaborate the role of environmental health in materialization ofsustainable development goals in line with the I. R. Irans vision of 2025. A number of world-known scholars along with tens of national experts, scientists, policy makers and managers in the field of environmental public health from across Iran will discuss and exchange their research, ideas and possible solutions to address the challenges to environmental health in achieving sustainable development in Iran and beyond, during the three days of the conference. I convey my words of appreciation to all scholars, experts, executive managers, policy makers, students and our distinguished international guests from around the world who contributed and attended this conference. I sincerely wish that through our meaningful and fruitful partnership, we will be creating a healthy and happy environment to be preserved for next generations.

The Message of President of the Conference

Dr.Ali JafarianHead of University and conference

Message


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Alireza Mesdaghinia was born in 1946 in Badrud, Natanz, Iran. After finishing the primary and secondary education in his birthplace and Kashan, Iran, he was accepted for B.Sc in Mathematics, University of Isfahan and graduated in 1970. Then he graduated from Sanitary Engineering Master program, School of Public Health, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran in 1974.Because of outstanding transcripts during his studies, Iranian government awarded him scholarship for further studies abroad. After completing his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Environmental health engineering, University of Kansas in USA, he returned to Iran in 1982 and was appointed as assistant professor at Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, University of Tehran.For 29 years, he served as the Dean of School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, that led to achieve the best Iranian public health specialists. Professor Mesdaghinia was also appointed as Deputy for Public Health at Irans Ministry of Health and Medical Education from 2009 to 2012 and also has been leading the Iranian Association of Environmental Health (IAEH), which he established in 1999.Mesdaghinia is also a permanent member of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Islamic Republic of Iran since 2015.Among many awards, Professor Mesdaghinia received World No Tobacco from World Health Organization (2011), Avicenna Festival Award from Tehran University of Medical Sciences (2012), Allameh Tabatabai Prize from president of Islamic Republic of Iran (2014); and also Dr. Lee Jong-Wook Memorial Prize for Public Health from WHO (2016).He published over 200 scientific articles in national and international peer-reviewed journals, as the result of three decades scientific activities.

Biography

Prof. Alireza MesdaghiniaPresident of Iranian Association of Environmental Health


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Message

In modern societies, the development of industry and urbanization, without a deep look at the importance of sustainable development, has increased pollution and the release of pollutants in environment.It is very well known that environmental risk factors have a significant impact on human health directly and indirectly, specially in burden of noncommunicable diseases. According to the World Health Organization in 2015, about 19 to 25 percent of the burden of diseases in our region are attributed to environmental risk factors.Despite the significant impact of the millennium development goals (MDGs) on improving human life, millions of people in the world suffer from the health, economic and social inequalities. Thus, on September 25th 2015, a new global framework as a basis for global sustainable development by 2030, has been approved by United Nations (UN), including 17 goals with 169 associated targets and 320 indicators. Among them, several goals, targets and indicators are introduced as the environmental health indicators such as mortality attributed to air pollution, average concentration of PM2.5, outdoor air pollution, water and sanitation.Iranian Association of Environmental Health (IAEH), as one of the most active scientific associations in the Islamic Republic of Iran was established in 1999 and has conducted annually National Conferences on Environmental Health in collaboration with Medical Sciences Universities to display the latest achievements of experts in the field of environmental risk factors assessment and the attributed health effects in national and provincial levels. This conference has been widely welcomed by experts and those involved in administrative affairs in the field of environment.Now IAEH in collaboration with Tehran University of Medical Sciences plans to deal with international and global aspects of environmental risk factors with a focus on sustainable development goals adopted by United Nations. Thus the 1st International and 19th National Conference on Environmental Health & Sustainable Development will be held on October 22-24th 2016 with the contribution of national and international authorities and researchers and with a focus on sustainable development. I hope this activity can assist environmental health promotion in our country and other communities. Participation of our distinguished national and international guests is highly welcomed and appreciated.

Alireza MesdaghiniaPresident, IAEH

October 2016

A Message from the President of Iranian Association of Environmental Health (IAEH)


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Dr. Mohammad Hadi Dehghani is a Full Professor and head of the department of Environmental Health Engineering at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences, School of Public Health, I.R.IRAN. He was graduated in PhD degree from Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS). His research interests include air pollution and health, waste management, water and wastewater sonochemistry and nanotechnology fields. He is the author of various research studies published at national and international journals, and conference proceedings. He has authored eight books and hundred peer reviewed papers. Professor Dehghani is an editorial board member in many internal and international journals and scientific committees.

Biography

Prof. Mohammad Hadi DehghaniScientific Secretary of EHSDG2016

Human being has been the center of sustainable development. Therefore the root of entry to conversation in conference of Envi-ronmental Health and Sustainable Development is for occurrence

of global problems in environment area and health system.

Undoubtedly todays world is suffering from different major problems such health problems, environmental, social, and economical ones. Although in recent decades parallel with development of science and technology there has also been noticeable achievements in social, economical, health and environmental goals, the subjects of health and environment, global sustainability and serious damage caused by pollutants that has challenged human beings and environment has been center of attention for many experts and thinkers in this area. Among these challenges it can be referred to some: The unsuitable management of water sources and drought, population increase and expansion of urban life and consequently moving to rural areas around megacities, development and expansion of technology, in some cases disproportion of technology and environment, changes in way of human beings lives, indiscriminate exploitation of natural sources, manipulation of environment, pollution specially in megacities and industrial ones, pollution, soil erosion, climate changes, global warming, illnesses and outbreak of them(such as Tuberculosis, Malaria, HIV, Ebola, Zika and.) entrance of industrial wastes and agricultural pesticides to environment, food security, malnutrition, famine and intense poverty, destruction of forests and pastures, incomplete management of toxin cycles, natural disasters and global disputes such as war and terrorism, damage to biodiversity, death of children and healthcare of women, gender inequality and so on.

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Message

Therefore by considering the fact that human being is the superior to all creatures and the reason of development and change in nature, or in other words human being is the center of sustainable development, it can be claimed that the root of entry to conversation of sustainable development is because of occurrence of mentioned global problems. The aim of sustainable development is to create a logical and peaceful relation between human being, environment, social and economical developments. It is clear that healthcare and public welfare, eradication of poverty, social and economical developments, solving the environmental threats, and in one words, sustainability of environment for present generation and the future one, with informing and attraction of different organization of regions and world and most important of all, supervision on sustainable development goals can be possible. Hence, it can be claimed that todays world has reached to 17 goals of supervision on sustainable developments. According to this, for making the world sustainable and more important than that, sustainability of environment and heath as parts of agenda of after 2015, arrangement and management of governments, universities, other scientific and commercial institutes and also civil society can put an end to present global problems and tensions.It is obvious that Islamic Republic of Iran has played an important role in issue of conversations in sustainable development area and agenda of 2030. From this point, macroeconomic policies in this area can provide necessary potentials for implementation of sustainable development goals. Of course in country also because of indiscriminate exploitation of natural sources and disobeying of environmental issues, major problems have been occurred and have put people and government in a serious challenge. Most important of all it has provided a large expense for government and most frequently the more sensitive groups of society and prone to disease will tolerate that.Therefore this conference has come to presence for clarifying inner and outer problems especially form an international view with presence of experts and pioneers in health and environment area from a new viewpoint and emphasis on the below goals:-Providing the suitable ground for creating understanding, more interaction with other universities, industries and other scientific and executive organizations with aim of reaching goals of conference-providing the newest samples, scientific innovations, exchanging and transferring experiences of experts, thinkers in inner and outer sections specially surrounding countries-Structuring and systematization of health, hygiene and sustainable development, with effective utilization of inner and outer potentials. -Providing the ground for reinforcement of knowledge and behavior in area of health, hygiene and sustainability of environment in country with cooperation of benefactors.Therefore kindly all professors, experts, students, elites, other researchers and administration managers of country that have the preoccupation of improvement of health, hygiene, and sustainability of environment are invited and presenting articles including newest scientific and research achievements is highly welcomed.

Prof. Dr. Mohammad Hadi DehghaniScientific Secretary of Conference

Head of Department of Environmental Health EngineeringTehran University of Medical Sciences, School of Public Health,

Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran


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Mr. Sattar Mahmoudi was born in 1952 in the city of Mehran on the Ilam Province. He received his BS in Geology from Esfahan University. Then he entered Sharif University for further education, so he finished his MS in Industrial Engineering. Mr. Mahmoudi first appointed as Water Manager of Ilam and then as Managing Director and Head of Board of Directors in West Regional Company which cover 5 provinces of Iran. His next operational responsibilities are Deputy for Operations and executive of Water and Wastewater Companies, Managing Director of the three major companies in Iran (Khorasan Regional Water Co., Water and Wastewater of Tehran Province and Water Resource Management Company of Iran). He was Advisor to couple of ministers of Energy (Water and Power) Ministry. At this moment, He is Senior Vice Minister of Energy. Mr. Mahmoudi also is author of 124 papers in the field of water and wastewater and he has teaching experiences in Applied Science Center of Energy Ministry. He has had memberships in some strategic committees like editorial board of Water and Environment Journal, Experts Evaluation in Water and Wastewater Industry, National Committee on Hydrology affiliated to UNESCO, IWA, Commissions of Megacity in Iran, Sub commission on the Public Infrastructure affairs and Brainstorming Unit for Water, Economy and Power that some of them are still ongoing.

Biography

Mr. Sattar MahmoudiSenior Vice Ministry of Energy


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Environmental Health and Sustainable Development Goals


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For all my working life, my objective has been to help make peoples lives more dignified, more empowered and safer. I am concerned that humanity is not protecting our beautiful, endangered planet and I prioritize environmental security as part of my work in human development. As a husband and the father of three empowered young women, I take the issue of gender equality seriously. Working for almost 30 years in the United Nations has given me opportunities to try to produce change for the better in a number of areas especially in countering human trafficking and helping those who are drug dependent to recover and find meaning in their lives. I believe there is still much more to do. I come from Barbados was born in Bridgetown in 1962 and have served with the United Nations in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas and the Middle East. Details below.2013 to now: UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN. (Duty station: Tehran)2008-2013: Regional Representative, UNODC Regional Centre for East Asia and the Pacific (Duty station: Bangkok, THAILAND covering 34 countries and territories).2004-2008: Regional Representative, UNODC Regional Office for South Asia (Duty station: New Delhi, INDIA covering 6 countries).1999-2004: Programme Manager (Drug Control), UNODC Regional Office for Southern Africa (Duty station: Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA covering 13 countries).1998-1999: Deputy Representative, UNODC Country Office for AFGHANISTAN. (Duty station: Islamabad, Pakistan Concurrent designation as Acting Representative of the Regional Office for South West Asia from December 1997 May 1998.)1995-1998: Assistant Representative, UNODC Regional Office for South West Asia (Duty station: Islamabad, PAKISTAN covering Pakistan and Iran). 1993-1995: Programme Coordination Officer, UNODC Office of Deputy Executive Director and Director of Operations (Duty station: Vienna, AUSTRIA).

Biography

Mr. Gary LewisUNDP Representative in I. R. Iran


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1987-1993: National Programme Officer, UNDP Regional Office for the Eastern Caribbean (Duty station: Bridgetown, BARBADOS covering 10 countries and territories.) 1985-1987: Bartender Data entry Trainee accountant Telephone lineman Journalist. Education: MSc (Econ) with distinction from London School of Economics (1984-1985) BA (Hons) from Queens University (Canada) with first class (1980-1984) One-year Exchange Scholarship in Glasgow University (1982-1983). University of West Indies Exhibition (1980). Harrison College, Barbados (1972-1980). Personal: Im a published author on Barbadian history a soccer player and I relax with bass guitar and percussion. I reflect heavily on paleoanthropology and astronomy. Im married to Elizabeth (since 1986) and together we have three daughters now in their twenties.


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Biography

Dr. A. Basel Al-Yousfi, Ph.D., PE, DEEDirector, Center for Environmental Health Activities (CEHA)Regional Office for the Eastern MediterraneanWorld Health Organization

Dr. Al-Yousfi holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Environmental Engineering from the USA, and a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from Syria. He is Board Certified by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists. Dr. Al-Yousfi is the Director of the WHO Regional Centre for Environmental Health Action (CEHA), a position he assumed in August 2009. Formerly, he had served from January 2001 in the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as a Deputy Regional Director in West Asia.In the 10 years prior to working for the United Nations, Dr. Al-Yousfi worked in the international petrochemical industry; and held an academic post at the University of Central Florida in the USA. He also served as an adjunct professor at Marshall University in the USA and the Arabian Gulf University in Bahrain. He was the Associate Editor of two major scientific Journals, has over 60 peer-reviewed publications, and received several international awards.


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The Millennium Development Goals (MDG-2015) encompassed eight goals over 15 years, three of which focused on health: MDG-4 called for a reduction in child mortality, MDG-5 for improvement in maternal health, and MDG-6 for the combat of HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases. One goal addressed environmental sustainability: MDG-7. A total of 6 health targets and 3 environmental targets were adopted under MDGs 4-7, and were measured periodically in all countries. Significant disparities in the performance and achievements of our countries were vividly marked. The least developed countries met none of the six health targets while some targets of the MDG-7 were barely met. Middle income countries met most health targets and showed endeavoring progress on environmental indicators; nonetheless political instability and conflicts may have eroded many of such sustainable development achievements. On the other hand, the well-off countries may have exceeded the set of health targets; however with unsustainable trends of development, consumption and production and environmental health sustainability. Developmental discrepancies were also notable within countries, i.e., between urban and rural areas or between richer and poorer communities.Admitting that the MDG-2015 agenda was not fully realized; the unfinished business of the MDG-2015 agenda was reincorporated again into the new (more participatory) Sustainable Development Agenda (SDG-2030). The SDG-2030 agenda included 17 goals, 169 targets, and hundreds of indicators. Health was assigned to one out of the 17 SDGs, with SDG-3 calling to Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. SDG-3 addresses the incomplete MDG 4-7 agenda; however, health is well-positioned at the heart of all the 17 goals, manifested in terms of social and/or environmental determinants of health. Other SDGs of relevance to health and the environment include: water and sanitation (SDG6), sustainable energy (SDG7), decent work and occupational health (SDG8), sustainable cities (SDG11), responsible production and consumption (SDG12), and climate change (SDG13). Being heterogeneous (with varying phases of socio-economic development and diverse political perspectives), the SDG-30 agenda must be tackled differentially in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, focusing on local environmental health needs and priorities in light of progress achieved and emerging circumstances.Worth noting that the SDG health-related targets closely reflect the main priorities in the WHOs Programme of Work for 2014-2019; many of these targets have already been agreed by Member States in the World Health Assembly. In this regard, strengthening of health information systems is a priority for WHO in the Region to support countries in improving their capacity to develop and use key indicators in light of SDGs goals.

Environmental Health and Sustainable Development in the Eastern Mediterranean Region:

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Biography

Dr. Seyed Mohammad Hadi AyaziHealth Ministers Deputy in Social Partnerships

Dr Seyed Mohammad Hadi Ayazi was born in 13 Feb 1963 in Holy Mashhad. He spent his childhood and adolescence in Mashhad. After the victory of Islamic Revolution of Iran, he worked in Construction Jihad and indigents Basij (mobilization). After the Iran- Iraq war, he received a M.A degree in Geopolitical from Islamic Azad University in Tehran. Finally he achieved a PhD degree in Defense Policy. Dr Ayazi was social & cultural assistant of Tehran municipality for 5 years (since 2009/07/11 to 2014/06/15). He was appointed as Health Ministers Deputy in Social Partnerships & NGOs & Health Charities in the 11th cabinet (since 2014/05/15 to 2016/04/10). Now, he is health ministers social assistant in ministry of health & medical education.Social Department has been considered for the first time in the health ministrys organization chart in 11th cabinet and Dr Ayazi has been appointed as the first social assistant of health ministry by Dr Ghazizadeh Hashemi (health minister). Some responsibilities in Social Department of the health ministry are including: Identify leading and support of charity capacities & endowments in order to development and improvement of health system. Interaction, collaboration and coordination with governmental bodies and public organizations in order to use of all the capabilities in development of public participations. Planning to organize, identify & attract non-governmental sources and use of the maximum capacity of people in the country and use of the capacities of the Iranian people who live abroad in order to development of health services.


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Biography

Dr. Eugenio Raul, VILLAR MONTESINOSCoordinator of the Social Determinants of Health Team

Dr Villar Montesinos is currently the Coordinator of the Social Determinants of Health Team with over ten years of advanced expertise in this field in advocacy and partnership building, community and social development, facilitation of training and capacity building and health policy development. He holds an MD degree and an M.Sc in Community Health in Developing Countries and a certificate in International Health (Residency Programme). In his present role, Dr Villar Montesinos have led the teams dealing with Policy coherence in the field of Equity and Social Determinants of Health. His WHO employment history started in 1992 as Scientist to perform strategic health sector policy analysis and working for Bolivia, Guatemala, Guyana, Yemen, Zambia among others. He was the first Coordinator of the Poverty and Health Team in WHO since early 2000. Since 1997 he has been assisting the Director-Generals Office with the Governing Bodies of WHO. He has covered the role of Protocol Officer, Officer in charge of the Plenary List of Speakers and Assistant Secretary of the Committee B of the WHAs. Dr Villar Montesinos is a member of the Editorial Committees of some scientific publications. He has worked as Public Health Assistant Professor at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia as a Medical Officer for the Ministry of Health in charge of different provincial health centres and as the Head of the Office of Financing, Investments and International Cooperation of the MoH in Peru, before joining WHO. Dr Villar Montesinos is fluent in English, Spanish and also speaks some French.


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The Sustainable Development Goals in the light of the social and environmental determinants of health:

the search for health equity

Equity is one of the biggest challenges facing current times and health equity is an accepted development marker for all societies. The UNGA approved in September 2015 the 2030 Development Agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with unanimous consensus by all the international community. This is a global achievement capturing both social and environmental goals for the first time in global history. Equity is at the very centre of the SDGs (Goal 10) as it is the principle of indivisibility of all the 17 goals. In order to achieve equity in society and in health therefore, ALL the SDGs need to be accomplished in an integrated manner. To do so, addressing the Social and Environmental determinants of health at the core of all SDGs through the Health in All Policies strategy constitute proven, evidence-based strategies for both developed and developing countries. Goal 3: ensuring healthy lives and promoting wellbeing for all at all ages encapsulates key health targets, including achieving Universal Health Coverage. To fully realize goal three in an equitable manner social and environmental determinants of health need to be achieved through multisectoral action. Having a sound development framework, the challenge is now on how to implement it. This Conference is to discuss critically important issues of the above mentioned agenda as it applies to the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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Investigation of the future of Irans Energy and Suggestions for Proper Defensive Solutions to Reduce Energy Vulnerability

B Salehi1,*, M A Nekoei2, A R Mirmehrabi31 MSc Student, Emergency Manegment, Malek-Ashtar University of Technology 2 Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Manegment, Malek-Ashtar University of Technology, 3 MSc Student, Emergency Manegment, Malek-Ashtar University of Technology

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: [email protected]

ABSTRACT

KEYWORDS: Iran, Energy, Sustainable Development, Vulnerability.

Background and Objective(s): Special importance of the energy sec-tor in the backward and forward linkages between industry and the energy sector with other industries for the future planning is inevitable. This study employs the strategic management approaches by using scenario planning to explore alternative future of the countrys energy sector.Materials and Methods: In this study, the combination of Delphi, en-vironmental scanning PEST, analysis of interactions, Rip Van Winkle and scripting techniques have been used to cover the complexity and diversity of the countrys energy sector. Among the innovations of this research, the use of new software (MICMAC) to analyze the interac-tions between variables can be noted. In order to collect information and classify parameters, Porters key energy sector structured model was used. In four fields, the following parameters: economic, social, political and technological were identified to be related to the energy sector. Then, experts were asked to evaluate in two stages and ul-timately the aid package for Delphi questionnaire containing 35 key factors was selected. Results: After Delphi, the number of these factors decreased to 10 fac-tors. Key factors were then weighted to software.Conclusion: After analysis and processing scenarios, the third key factor in Fulton Askyyrz was selected via cube model which was re-sulted in creation of the third and the main scenario.


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Air Pollution


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With an MD from the University of Basel and a PhD from University of California Berkeley (USA), Nino Knzli is Deputy Director of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute Basel, Switzerland (www.swisstph.ch) and Professor of Public Health at the University Basel Medical School. He has a 25 year record of research in environmental epidemiology, reflected in >300 peer reviewed articles, with a particular focus on ambient air pollution and its cardiorespiratory health effects. His air pollution research includes exposure science, epidemiologic research and the integration of both into health impact assessment to serve policy makers.After the PhD (UC Berkeley) he returned to Basel to continue research in Switzerland. Appointed as Associate Professor to the University of Southern California in Los Angeles (2002-2005) we worked with the team of the Southern California Childrens Health Study. He received an ICREA Professor position in Barcelona to join the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (2006-2009). Knzli regularly serves on national and international advisory committees, including for the E.U. and WHO. Since 2012, he is the President of the Swiss Federal Commission on Air Hygiene the clean air advisory board of the Swiss Government. Knzli is Co-Editor-in Chief of the International Journal of Public Health, which is owned by the Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+) www.ssphplus.ch. Since 2015, Knzli is the dean of this virtual school - a foundation of eight Swiss Universities.

Biography

Prof. Nino KnzliNino Knzli, MD PhD, Professor for Public HealthDeputy Director Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), Basel, and Dean of the Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+), Switzerland.


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Air Pollution and Health: Beyond Environmental Health Sciences

Air pollution remains the leading environmental cause of mortality and morbidity. Environmental health sciences in particular environmental epidemiology, exposure sciences and toxicology established strong evidence of the acute and long-term health effects of ambient air pollution. These range from functional and metabolic changes to cardio-respiratory diseases and adverse effects on perinatal health outcomes as well as neurodevelopment. Impact assessment studies provide the tools to quantify the public health relevance of these adverse effects. These assessments of the burden attributable to air pollution provide valuable inputs into the discussions among policy makers. Low and middle income countries face particular challenges given the high levels of pollution which continue to get even worse. The question, thus, arises of the role of sciences in these countries to ultimately achieve compliance of air quality with the levels promoted by WHO to protect peoples health not only in Western countries but on the global scale. Obstacles and scientific opportunities will be discussed and put in the context of relevance for Iran.

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Carlos Dora, MD, PhD, is a health policy expert with WHO leading work on health impacts of sector policies (energy, transport, housing, extractive industry) involving health impact assessment (HIA) and systems to manage health risks and benefits. He is leading the WHO response to implement recommendations from the World Health Assembly to prevent the health impacts of air pollution. This includes a new Urban Health Initiative to strengthen capacity in cities to obtain health co-benefits from urban policies. The Unit he manages at the WHO is in charge of providing guidance health risks (air pollution, indoors and outdoors, radiation, occupation), as well as monitoring, evaluation and tracking related policies and health impacts, including in the context of the SDGs (in energy, cities and health). Dr Dora has lead WHOs work on Health in a Green Economy focusing on health benefits from climate change mitigation policies. He is engaged in the health co-benefits of sustainable energy initiatives, including SE4All, GACC, and from climate change mitigation with the CCAC. He previously worked at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine; at the WHO Regional Office for Europe, with the World Bank and as a senior policy adviser to the WHO Director General. Before that he worked in the organization of primary care systems in Brazil, where he also practiced clinical medicine. He served in many several and policy committees. His MSc and PhD are from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His publications cover health impacts of sector policies, Health Impact Assessment and health risk communication.

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Dr. Carlos DoraCoordinator Public Health and the Environment Department atWorld Health Organization


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Air pollution health impacts - the pulse of the new development agenda.

Air pollution is a major killer, causing almost 7 million deaths a year worldwide. The strong link between air pollution, health and development, is reflected in the indicators for SDGs in health (SDG 3), energy (SDG 7) and cities (SDG 11). We highlight here some of the main challenges and opportunities: Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) like heart disease, stroke, cancer and chronic lung diseases are caused by air pollution, yet air pollution is not included in most NCD prevention strategies.Cooking heating and lighting with dirty fuels and inefficient technology in the home remain a major source of indoor air pollution causing COPD in women and childhood pneumonia deaths. Kerosene1 is a major source of particulate matter (a deadly air pollutant) millions of people still rely on kerosene for lighting or heating. The new WHO IAQGs Household fuel combustion pro-vide evidence on how clean home fuels and technologies need to be to protect health2.Addressing air pollution in cities can yield great benefits for health and development. Data on 3000 cities worldwide monitoring air quality shows that air pollution is still increasing in in low and middle income countries, while it is decreasing in the wealthier part of the world. More than 80% have yearly average air quality levels that does not meet the WHO guidelines3. There is also urgent need for more information on the health impacts of sand and dust.This presentation will highlight the global response to the health threats posed by air pollution as articulated by the World Health Assembly resolution on air pollution and health (2015) and in Sustainable Development Agenda.

1 Burning opportunity - Clean Household Energy for Health, Sustainable Development, and Wellbeing of Women and Children, WHO 2016.2 Indoor air pollution guidelines: household fuel combustion. WHO, 2014.3 http://www.who.int/phe/health_topics/outdoorair/databases/cities/en/

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Dr. Vahid Hosseini is an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology. He is also holding positions as the general manager of Tehran air quality control co., executive director of UNESCO chair in water and environment management of sustainable cities, and head of clean transportation office at deputy transportation of Tehran municipal-ity. His expert area is combustion and combustion generated air pollution, he is conducting research on various type of low temperature clean combustion engines, mobile source emis-sion at real-world, and diesel after-treatment technologies. He earned his PhD from University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada and worked as a research scientist for federal government of Canada at Canadian National Research Council.

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Dr. Vahid HosseiniGeneral Manager of Tehran Air Quality Control Company


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Mazen Malkawi, Advisor on Environmental Health Exposures, at the World Health Organization (WHO), Regional Center for Environmental Health Action (CEHA), Amman, JordanMr. Malkawi holds a Diploma in Water and Environment Information Management from the Free University of Brussels (1998), M.Sc. in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering from the Jordan University of Science and Technology (1988), and B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the University of Jordan (1985).Mr. Malkawi started his career as a Hydrologist and Monitoring Engineer at the Ministry of Water and Irrigation, King Talal Dam (1985-1987) during this period he was responsible for monitoring the hydrological behaviour of the King Talal Dam as well as the water quality of the reservoir. Then he spent some time as a teaching assistant at the Jordan University of Science and tech-nology (1987-1988) in different water and environmental engineering subjects. Mr. Malkawi has served since 1988 at different positions in the WHO Centre for Environmen-tal Health Action (CEHA). Most recently in 2012 he started coordinating several regional pro-grammes related to monitoring and controlling exposures to environmental risk factors in the 22 countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region, including Monitoring the health impacts of air pollution on health, and the safe use of treated wastewater in Agriculture as an adaptation measure in the face of climate change. Mr Malkawi published several articles mostly covering issues related to environmental; health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region including: access to environmental health information; health aspects of wastewater reuse; linkages between health and environment; and health impacts of air pollution.

BiographyMr. Mazen Malkawi Advisor on Environmental Health Exposures, at the World Health Organization (WHO)


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M S Hassanvand1,2*, M Yunesian1,2, K Naddafi1,2, N Kunzli3,4, H Kashani5, S Faridi2, F Momeniha6, RNabiza-deh1,2, A Gholampour7, A Zare8, M Arhami9, A Mesdaghinia2, M Hoseini10

1Center for Air Pollution Research (CAPR), Institute for Environmental Research (IER), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.2Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sci-ences, Tehran, Iran.3Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), Basel, Switzerland.4University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.5Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.6Center for Solid Waste Research (CSWR), Institute for Environmental Research (IER), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.7Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tabriz University of Medical Sci-ences, Tabriz, Iran.8Department of Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.9Immunology, Asthma and Allergy Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.10Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Shiraz University of Medical Sci-ences, Fars, Iran.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Institute for Environmental Research (IER), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

Telephone: (98) 21- 88978395. E-mail: [email protected].

ABSTRACT

KEYWORDS: Particulate matter; Inflamma-tion biomarkers; Coagulation biomarkers; Panel study

Associations between PM10/PM2.5-10/PM2.5/PM1-2.5/PM1 Exposure and Circulating Markers in a Panel of

Elderly Subjects and Healthy Young Adults

Background and Objective(s): In the present work, the researchers investigated the associations between air pollution particulate matter (PM10, PM2.5-10, PM2.5, PM1-2.5, and PM1) with effect of biomarkers (in-flammation and coagulation markers) in two groups of healthy young and elderly subjects in Tehran city, Iran. Materials and Methods: We followed a panel of 40 healthy young adults living in a school dormitory and a panel of 44 nonsmoking el-derly subjects living in a retirement home in Tehran. Hourly indoor and outdoor PM concentrations were measured using GRIMM dust moni-tors and 24-h aerosol samples were collected by low-volume air sam-plers. The random intercept linear mixed-effects model was used for data analysis. Results: We found significant positive associations for WBC and IL-6 with exposure to PM10, PM2.5-10, PM2.5, and PM1-2.5, but no with PM1. The results showed that increases in hsCRP, sTNF-RII and vWF were not significantly associated with any of the PM sizes studied in the healthy young subjects. Conclusion: For elderly subjects, we observed significant positive as-sociations for WBC and IL-6 with exposure to PM10, PM2.5-10, PM2.5, PM1-2.5, and PM1; sTNF-RII with PM2.5, PM1-2.5, and PM1; hsCRP with PM2.5 and PM1; and vWF with PM10 and PM2.5-10, PM2.5, and PM1-2.5 mass concentration in elderly subjects from the current-day and multi-day averages.


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R Fouladi Fard1, 2, K Naddafi 1, 3*, M S Hassanvand3, M Khazaei2, F Rahmani4, S Arsang Jang5

1 Department Of Environmental Health Engineering, School Of Public Health, Tehran University Of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran2 Research Center For Environmental Pollutants, Qom University Of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran3 Center For Air Pollution Research (CAPR), Institute For Environmental Research (IER), Tehran University Of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. 4 Geological Survey Of Iran, Medical Geology Department, Tehran, Iran5 Department Of Epidemiology And Biostatistics, School Of Health, Qom University Of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran

Atmospheric Deposition of Metals in a Semi-Arid Region of Iran:

Enrichment and Spatiotemporal Variation

Background and Objective(s): The presence and enrichment of heavy metals within dust depositions is an emerging environmental health issue in the urban and industrial estates. In this study, the deposition of some metals was found in Qom; a city located in the semi-desert area of Iran which is surrounded by industrial estates. Materials and Methods: Dust deposition samples were gathered using five sampling stations during a year. Dust samples were digested applying acidic condition and then, the metals contents were analyzed using Inductive Coupled Plasma technology (ICP-OES).Results: Comparative results showed the following order from the maximum to minimum concentrations (mg/kg.dust) of elements: Ca > Al > Fe > Mg > Ti > Si > K > B > Sr > Mn > P > Ba > Cr > Zn > Ni > Sn > Pb > V > Na > Cu > Co > U > Li > Ce > Ag. Differences between the average concentrations of metals in the 5 stations were not significant (Pvalue>0.05). The average concentrations of some metals have increased significantly during cold seasons. In this study, the Cluster Analysis (CA) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) were applied and the signs of relationship between some elements in different clusters have also been founded. In addition, the geo-accumulation and enrichment analysis showed that, metals such as Boron, Silver, Tin, Uranium, Lead, Zinc, Cobalt, Chromium, Lithium, Nickel, Strontium, and Copper have been enriched more than the moderate values. Conclusions: The existence of thermal power plant, the pesticide manufacturing plants, the abundance of publishing centres, the traffic jam and some industrial estates around the city, have led to the enrichment of some metals (particularly in cold seasons with atmospheric stable conditions) within dust deposition.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: [email protected]

ABSTRACT

KEYWORDS: Dust deposition, Metals, Correlation analysis, Enrichment assessment, Seasonal variation


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Climate Change and Health


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Ali Ardalan MD, PhD, is a pioneer in disaster risk management in Iran and the MENA region who was the driving force behind the creation of MPH and PhD training programs in disaster health studies. He is Director of Disaster and Emergency Health at Tehran University of Medi-cal Sciences, an Adviser to Health Deputy Minister, and Director of Disaster Risk Management Office at I.R.Iran Ministry of Health and Medical Education. He was a nominee for the 2015 UN Sasakawa Award. Since 2012, he is a Visiting Scientist at Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard School of Public Health, and a Senior Fellow at Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. Dr. Ardalan is author and co-author of over 70 articles in English and Persian peer reviewed journals. He is a member of WHO/EMR Health Emergency Advisory Group, and a member of the UNISDR Asia Science, Technology and Academic Advisory Group (ASTAAG).

Biography

Dr. Ali ArdalanDirector of Disaster Risk Management Office at Ministry of Health & Medical Education (MOHME), I. R. Iran


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Biography

Prof. Emily Ying Yang ChanProfessor and Centre Director, Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response

Professor Chan received academic training from Johns Hopkins University, Harvard School of Public Health, University of Hong Kong (HKU), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Currently, she serves in CUHK as Pro-fessor and Assistant Dean (Development) at Faculty of Medicine, Associate Director (External Affairs and Collaboration) at JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, Director at Centre for Global Health (CGH) and Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC), as well as at Oxford University Nuffield De-partment of Medicine as Honorary Research Fellow and in Harvard University as Senior Fellow at Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and Visiting Scholar at FXB Center. Professor Chan also serves as a member of Asia Science Technology and Academia Advisory Group of United Na-tions Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR ASTAAG) and in various technical consulta-tion capacities for World Health Organization (WHO).Her research interests include climate change and health, health and environmental co-bene-fits, disaster and humanitarian medicine, global and planetary health, violence and injury epi-demiology, healthy settings, health needs and programme impact evaluation, evidence-based medical and public health interventions in resource-deficit settings. Awarded the 2007 Nobuo Maeda International Research Award of American Public Health Association, Professor Chan has published more than 200 international peer-reviewed academic/technical/conference arti-cles and seven of these appeared in The Lancet and Bulletin of the World Health Organization. She also has extensive experience in serving as frontline emergency relief practitioner across 20 countries in mid-1990s.


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Disaster Risk Reduction in Urban Communities in Asia. The case of Climate Change and Health in Hong Kong

Climate change has led to temperature and precipitation abnormalities, sea-level rise and more frequent extreme weather events. The resulted environmental consequences and health im-pact of these climate-related changes are multi-faceted and intertwined. This presentation will provide an overview on how Disaster Risk Reduction effects may be implemented for health in evidence-based manner in the Asian urban context such as Hong Kong.

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I received my Ph.D. in water resources in 2006 entitled Risk assessment of climate change and its impacts on water resources in Tarbiat Modarres university (Tehran, Iran). Academic visitor in climatic research unit (CRU) the university of East Anglia in 2005. Participating in CRU M.Sc.s climate change courses. Supervisor of over 50 post graduate (Ph.D. and M.Sc. students) in different climate change issues such as; climate change modeling, impact assess-ments, adaptation strategies. Research director of over 10 national and 3 international projects about climate change impact assessment. Have got over 100 articles (peer-reviewed journals and conferences) about climate change. Team leader for vulnerability and adaptation working groups, team leader for GCOS, and team leader for education and research on climate change enabling activity (UNDP/GEF) of UNFCCC project in Iran. Referee of IPCC AR5 report. Mem-ber of International Drought Initiative (IDI-UNESCO). Member of Iranian water resources as-sociations of Ministry of Energy.

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Dr. Ali Reza Massah BavaniAssociate Professor, Department of Water Engineering, University of Tehran


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AbstractDr. Ali Reza Massah Bavani

Impact of Climate Change on Public Health of Iran in Near Future

Ali Reza Massah BavaniAssociate Professor, Department of Water Engineering, University of Tehran

Scientific agreement exists the worlds climate is changing. A number of these changes can possibly embrace a lot of variable weather, heat waves, significant precipitation events, flood-ing, droughts, a lot of intense storms, sea level rise, and air pollution. Every of those impacts might negatively have an effect on public health. whereas global climate change may be an international issue, the consequences of global climate change can vary across geographic regions and populations. In Iran Third National Communication report to UNFCCC, impacts of climate change on elements of public health have been addressed. Based on the results, the temperature will increase by 1 c in almost all part of the country, cause more heat waves episodes. Unlike temperature, precipitation change varies between -10% to +10%. Finally, the results showed that most of the parts of the country will face to hydrological drought in near future, with more hazard for food security and public health. On the other hand, it is expected that heavy precipitation events and floods increase and more damages to public places and consequently public health occur in near future. Projections of sea level rise in North and South of Iran in near future revealed that there will be no threads for North of Iran, but south coastline of the country will suffer from inundation due to climate change impacts on sea level rise. Con-sequently, public health in South coastline areas of Iran will be an important issue.


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Dr Gouya has received his MD degree from Jondishapour University, Ahwaz, Iran, in 1980 and MPH from Tehran University in 1988. In 1990 he received his Specialty in Infectious and tropi-cal disease from Tehran University of medical science. In 1995 he participated in2-month Course on Injury Prevention & Safety Promotion, in Karolinska Institute, Sweden. He has International Diploma from a Course in Health risk Management, from WHO- Linkping University, Tunisia. Then he participate in 2003, in the Panels of a 2-weeks Comprehensive Physician Workshop on Emergency Medicine Leadership, Tehran University of Medical Sci-ences & the George Washington University, Tehran, Iran.In 2003 he received certificate of Fellowship program on clinical management of AIDS, from Karolinska Institute, Sweden, and certificate of communicable disease surveillance and control in complex emergencies and management Biological Weapons Incidents, after WHOtraining course in Iran. He has appointed as assistant professor in Iran University, infectious disease department in faculty of Medical from 1990. From 1995 to 2000 he was in deputy of health in Iran University of medical science. From 1994 to 1995 he was manager ofdisease control at provincial level. From 2000 he has been director general of Center for com-municable disease control in health deputy of MOH. He has experience as WHO Advisor about TB in Afghanistan (2002), EMRO regional framework on Health Promotion (2004). From 2007 to 2012 he was member of Program coordinator Board (PCB) of UNAIDS. In 2012 he was Tem-porary Advisor for Tropical Neglected Disease for World Health Organization and Member of Technical Advisor Group (TAG) for PolioEradication in Afghanistan.

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Dr. Mohammad-Mehdi GouyaDirector-General of Communicable Diseases, Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention, Ministry of Health, Islamic Republic of Iran


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Climate change and Disease

It is now generally acknowledged that the global climate is changing, as the earth becomes warmer. Although global warming may bring some localized benefits, such as fewer winter deaths in temperate climates, the overall health effects of a changing climate are likely to be overwhelmingly negative. Overall, climate change is expected to significantly increase health risks, particularly in low- and middle-income countries and populations. Climatic conditions strongly affect water-borne diseases and diseases transmitted vectors. For example Higher temperatures and humidity, changing and increasingly variable precipitation, higher sea surface and freshwater temperatures can increase risks of food and water borne disease.Measuring the health effects from climate change can only be very approximate. Areas with weak health infrastructure will be the least able to cope. A climate resilient health system is one that is capable to anticipate, respond to, cope with, recover from and adapt to climate-related shocks and stress, so as to bring sustained improvements in population health, despite an unstable climate. Reducing overall vulnerability, and developing specific system capacities are two important steps in building climate resilient health system and it needs multidisciplinary cooperation and collaboration. Climate related health risks occur at multiple timescales, from short-term climate variability (Such as heat waves and storms that can trigger health emergen-cies over timescales from days to weeks), to long-term climate change. The implementation of each component should therefore consider decisions with the aim to improve service delivery and health system performance in the short- (days to years), medium- (510 years) as well as long-term (Decades) perspectives.

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Biography

Prof. Virginia MurrayConsultant in Global Disaster Risk Reduction at Public Health England

Professor Virginia Murray was appointed as a Public Health doctor in Global Disaster Risk Re-duction for Public Health England in April 2014. This appointment is to take forward her work as vice-chair of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) Scientific and Techni-cal Advisory Group and as the Chair of the Science & Technology Organising Committee for the UNISDR Science and Technology Conference on the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 January 27-29 2016. Prior to this she was appointed as Head of Extreme Events and Health Protection, Public Health England in January 2011. With the Extreme Events team, she developed evidence base information and advice on flooding, heat, cold, volcanic ash, and other extreme weather and natural hazards events. Appointed as Visiting Professor in Health Protection, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College and Kings College, London (2004), United Nations University International Institute of Global Health (2016-2018)and Honorary Professor at University College London (2013), she has published widely.Professor Virginia Murray was appointed as a Public Health doctor in Global Disaster Risk Reduction for Public Health England in April 2014. This appointment is to take forward her work as vice-chair of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) Scientific and Technical Advisory Group and as the Chair of the Science & Technology Organising Committee for the UNISDR Science and Technology Conference on the implemen-tation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 January 27-29 2016. Prior to this she was appointed as Head of Extreme Events and Health Protection, Public Health England in January 2011. With the Extreme Events team, she developed evidence base information and advice on flooding, heat, cold, volcanic ash, and other extreme weather and natural hazards events. Appointed as Visiting Professor in Health Protection, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College and Kings College, London (2004), United Na-tions University International Institute of Global Health (2016-2018)and Honorary Professor at University College London (2013), she has published widely.Professor Virginia Murray was appointed as a Public Health doctor in Global Disaster Risk Reduction for Public Health England in April 2014. This appointment is to take forward her work as vice-chair of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) Scientific and Technical Advisory Group and as the Chair of the Science & Technology Organising Committee for the UNISDR Science and Technology Conference on the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 January 27-29 2016. Prior to this she was appointed as Head of Extreme Events and Health Protection, Public Health England in January 2011. With the Extreme Events team, she developed evidence base information and advice on flooding, heat, cold, volcanic ash, and other extreme weather and natural hazards events. Appointed as Visiting Professor in Health Protection, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College and Kings College, London (2004), United Nations University International Institute of Global Health (2016-2018)and Honorary Professor at University College London (2013), she has published widely.


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Water and Wastewater Management


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Prof. Andre Niemann is the Head of the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He is member of the board of the Center of Water and Environmental Research (CWE) within the university of Duisburg-Essen. CWE is one of the top-five research centers in the field of Water, Environment and Health in Germany. He studied Civil Engineering (Dipl.-Ing.) at the University of Hannover and at the Public Works Research Institute (PWRI) of the Ministry of Construction in Tsukuba, Japan. After obtaining his PhD in environmental engineering based on a scholarship of the German Research Foundation (DFG) within the graduate school Improvement of the urban water cycle within urban areas he specialized in freshwater ecology and sanitary engineering. After this he worked 10 years in the private sector as Project and senior engineer (20002006), head of department (2006), general manager (2008) at Dahlem Consulting Engineers in nation-al and international projects. In 2010 he was nominated as Chair and director of the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He dedicated his research activities to hydraulic engineering and water resources manage-ment, sustainable urban water management, global water problems, hydromorphology and morphodynamics of rivers, river restoration, fish migration concepts, water quality modelling and management incl. mass flow balancing, sustainable hydropower solutions, modern water education and the sustainable development of higher education units. Prof. Niemann authored more than 60 reviewed papers and publications, in particular on sus-tainable water management. He is member of the German advisory board Water and Soil.

Biography

Prof. Ing. Andre Niemann Professor of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management


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Sustainable Water Management - Strategies and needs

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andre Niemann, University of Duisburg-Essen Head of the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management; Universita-

etsstrasse 15, 45 141 Essen, Germany

http://www.uni-due.de/wasserbau - [email protected]

The key note will give an overview on global water problems first then linking a short reference to the situation in IRAN as it is today. Selected global case studies will offer an insight in differ-ent strategies and needs for a sustainable water management. Ways towards an integrated wa-ter resources management (IWRM) will be presented within different scales of application and implementation. Scales will range from the catchment level up to local situations in an urban context. IWRM has a special focus on defining tailor made solutions for an effective water man-agement of the river basin under consideration of political, institutional and socio-economical aspects. Decision making process and application of suitable and long term sustainable tech-nology approaches is finally derived from the IWRM concept.Selected case studies presented will for example deal with ongoing research on the optimiza-tion of a set of reservoirs due to fore- and nowcasting methods with a special focus on maxi-mizing flood protection and hydropower production. Another case study will address a need for monitoring strategies for of river basins and options for the application of special treatment technologies in order to tackle specific pollutants for a safe and healthy water infrastructure. One last example will provide an analysis of the needed actions because of problems with ag-ing infrastructure which needs to be restored within the urban context. Educational needs within Higher Education Units (i.e. Universities) for sustainable water management are addressed also.

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Mr. Janbaz has received his B.Sc in Geo Hydrology from Shiraz University. Then he was gradu-ated and received his MBA in Urban management from Organization of Industrial Management of Iran and was elected as the Executive Manager of Business Administration EMBA in Ministry of Energy Institute for Management Training and Research. Mr. Janbaz was busy in a period by the responsibility of the Supervising Engineer of Plan and Development of Sistan and Baluch-istan Water and Wastewater Company. Also he was the Chair

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