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23 -25 September 2008
Inhaled Particles X is
organised by BOHS in conjunction with
The Aerosol Society
Inhaled Particles X
Is the latest in a long line of highly successful and prestigious meetings bringing together researchers on the health effects of particles. The first Inhaled Particles (IP) conference was held in Oxford in 1960. Over the past 48 years, IP has been the event at which some of the key developments in occupational and public health have been debated.
Why attend IPX?
Multi-disciplinary research is vital to the science of particle-mediated lung disease and a distinctive feature of the IP Conference series. Continuing this tradition, IPX will bring together world-renowned and up-and-coming researchers from a wide range of specialist disciplines, but with a common interest and purpose: to understand better the nature of inhalable particles and their effects once inhaled, for the protection of workers' and public health.
IPX will be an integrtive Conference, in three ways:-
First, IPX welcomes the full range of disciplines and scientists concerned with protection of health from inhaled particles. This includes engineers concerned with dust control; scientists characterising and modelling emissions; exposure measurement, in the field and in the laboratory; experts in particle deposition and clearance; toxicologists discovering mechanisms of damage; epidemiologists developig and applying methods to link exposure with risk; and those concerned with policy - with setting standards, with protection of individuals. People from all of these disciplines and more can find a place in the programme of IPX;
Secondly, IPX will be concerned with particles in the workplace, in outdoor air, and in the general indoor environment; and will try to find common threads and encourage cross-over of ideas between these three broad fields.
And thirdly, IPX will integrate experience and perspectives internationally, including issues such as silicosis and pneumoconiosis that are now unfashionable as research topics in the developed Western economies but still constitute a major public health risk internationally.
We hope you will join us at IPX in Sheffield, UK, 23-25 September 2008
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