The second webinar “Research dialogue on health risks”

On September 26, 2014 experts from FBSI “Federal Scientific Center for Medical and Preventive Health Risk Management Technologies” took part in the second webinar within the international research project “Best practices exchange in the field of health studies of communities living in ecological trouble areas in Russia and the United States: dialogue of authorities, NGOs and community representatives”.

The second webinar was held under the working title: “Research dialogue on health risks. Russia - USA. Program. Collaborating Dialogue”. During the webinar Chris Shuey, MPH (Director, Uranium Impact Assessment Program) made a presentation “DiNEH project overview: History, Methods, Results”, which presented the original data and the results of a study group of scientists, consisting of scientists from the University of New Mexico and South-Western research and information Center (SRIC), who in the years 2000-2011 studied the uranium effects on the health of the local population - peoples from the Eastern Navajo.

Then the brief report was presented by Makarova L.V., the representative of the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare in the Republic of Buryatia, who spoke on the level and growth rates of public morbidity in Zakamensk in the years 1998-2013, as well as the data of children's health medical examination held in Zakamensk in 2003.

Webinar participants came to a consensus that DiNEH project is a study similar to that which is scheduled to perform in Zakamensk (Republic of Buryatia) on determining the possible impacts on the environment and human health of mining wastes from Dzhidinsky tungsten-molybdenum plant and, therefore, a joint effort to develop a program for the study of public health and environment in the region of Zakamensk, Buryatia is necessary.