Dear Colleagues and Friends
On behalf of the ISEE Barcelona organising committees, it is a great pleasure to invite you to the 23rd International ISEE conference which will be held in Barcelona, Spain from 13th-16th September 2011.
The International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) is an international organization with almost 1000 members from more than 60 countries and regional chapters and local groups in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Mediterranean, Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, South Asia, and East Asia. The annual international conference brings together many members and non-members and provides an excellent forum for the discussion of problems and benefits related to the environment and human health.
For this conference we have specific themes; Sustainable transport and health: Impact of transport on health and approaches to reduce health impacts, Impact of climate change: from water scarcity to Saharan dust episodes, Early exposure - later life: in utero and early life exposures and effects in later life, and New methods and technologies and we hope that the conference will stimulate discussion and research in these particular areas. Of course it does not exclude work in other important areas of the ISEE community and we expect fruitful and interesting presentations and discussions on many of the important challenges that our society is facing.
Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia is unequivocally a Mediterranean city, not only because of its geographic location but also and above all because of its history, tradition and cultural influences. The documented history of the city dates back to the founding of a Roman colony on its soil in the second century B.C. Modern Barcelona experienced spectacular growth and economic revival at the onset of industrialization during the second half of the 19th century. An important milestone was the 1992 Barcelona Olympics which has put Barcelona on the map as one of the most attractive places to visit.
The city of Barcelona has one of the highest population densities in Europe, and a long tradition of urbanism that makes it an important reference point in urban design and town planning. Its modern urban development is based on the extension plan (Example) created by Ildefons Cerdà, an engineering and utopian socialist who took into account public health concerns.
We hope that you will enjoy Barcelona as much as we do and look forward to seeing you all at the conference.
Best wishes,
Mark Nieuwenhuijsen
Manolis Kogevinas
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