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February, 2022


Dr. Mahmood Khwaja, (ISDE president 2015-2017), we will miss you!


Fall, 2021


World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe. (‎2021)‎. Mercury and human health: educational course.


June, 2020


Open Letter from Health Professionals to G20 in support of a Healthy Recovery

WHO Manifesto for a healthy and green COVID-19 recovery

Oct 7th, 2019



Dr. Mahmood A. Khwaja, Ph.D., Senior Adviser, Chemicals & Health and Sustainable Industrial Development, SDPI, and former president of ISDE, has been given Chairman 's Pacific Basin Consortium (PBS) for Environment and Health 's Award, during PBC 18th Conference, at Jichi Medical University, Japan, September, 2019, for his contributions to research and PBC. Award recieved at SDPI, Islamabad. Pakistan/October 7, 2019.

June 29th, 2019


Dr. Peter Kaelin, ISDE treasurer, president of our Swiss affiliate, died in accident. Peter, we are deeply sorry.

Oct 16th, 2018


Dr. Philip Michael, Cork, Ireland: We will miss you!

Oct 13th, 2017

From Alan Lockwood the long time
chair of PSR EH committee

Algae in Lake Erie: What Can Be Done? Letter to The New York Times.

Sept 28th, 2017

UNEP COP 1 Geneva
speech of Dr. Mahmood A.Khwaja


Addressing the first UNEP conference of the Parties (COP 1), Dr. Mahmood A.Khwaja, past President, ISDE and senior adviser, Chemicals and Sustainable Industrial development, emphasized expedited support to developing countries, through capacity building, technical assistance & technology transfer, for sound chemicals (including mercury) management/safe guarding public health, in Geneva. September 28, 2017. Over 1500 delegates from 152 countries (including 2 Presidents and several Minister/Vice Ministers of Environment) participated in COP 1.

Sept 23th, 2017

General Assembly

Before the First Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention ISDE's General Assembly tool place on September 29th, 2017 in Geneva, Switzerland.
ISDE GA Geneva

August 16th, 2017

Mercury

The Minamata Convention enters into force on the 16 August 2017. The First Conference of the Parties will take place from 24 to 29 September 2017 in Geneva, Switzerland.

June, 2017

Cooperation with journal

IJERPH offers discounts on publication fees for ISDE affiliates.
For details see MDPI's Institutional Open Access Program.

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) (ISSN 1660-4601, 2016 IF 2.101) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that focus on the publication of scientific and technical information about the environmental and occupational correlations of health and disease, the relationship between environmental health and the quality of life, as well as the socio-cultural, political, economic and legal considerations related to environmental stewardship and public health.
IJERPH has published almost 5500 papers since it was launched in 2004. In 2016, the journal website received more than 2 million times page views. Please consider publishing your research in this high quality peer-reviewed journal.

June, 2017

Chemicals in Products

Olga Speranskaya, Mahmood A. Khwaja, Brian Kohler: Guidance to the Chemicals in Products (CiP) Programme for non-governmental organizations representing the public interest (NGOs)

Apr 18, 2017

Poisonous Cosmetics

Dr. Mahmood A. Khwaja and S. Waqar Ali: Regulating mercury containing skin whitening creams (SWCs) in Pakistan. Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) Policy Brief Series.

Jan 21, 2017

Ban on mercury demanded

Pakistan Observer about an awareness workshop in Quetta. Topics were chemical safety and climate change (Daily Baluchistan Express, Janaury 23, 2017)

Dec 30, 2016 / Jan 2, 2017

Mercury in Pakistani media

Moot calls for developing strategies for safe management of Mercury
Mercury poisoning

Dec 21, 2016

NextGenU.org ready to offer free MDs, MPHs, & residencies - can you help identify pilot sites?
www.NextGenU.org is ready to offer the world's first free degrees (MDs and Masters' in Public Health), and residencies (in Pediatrics and in Preventive and Family Medicine).

Specific to ISDE, NextGenU.org offers the core MPH Environmental Health course, along with the ISDE-cosponsored full accredited course in Climate Change and Health.
NextGenU.org now brings 4 years of uniquely offering courses for credit for free (sign up at www.NextGenU.org), registrants in 145 countries, a $16 million endowment, and funders and partners including AAPHP, ACPM, APTR, CDC, Harvard, NATO, Stanford, and WHO.  NextGenU.org has been tested in medical and public health students in the U.S. and Canada, and in community health workers and primary care physicians in Kenya, showing as much knowledge gain and greater student satisfaction than with traditional courses, positive effects on complex health worker behaviors (like counselling) and attitudes (like stigma), and the creation of an interactive global community of practice.

Oct 17, 2016

Mercury in Skin Whitening Creams

New book by S. Waqar Ali and Dr. Mahmood A. Khwaja, SDPI

download here, SDPI Research and News Bulletin 23(3)

 

Sept 23, 2016

Children’s Rights and the Environment

Lilian Corra will speak on behalf of ISDE at the Palais des Nations, Geneva COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD

 

July 5, 2016

Dark cloud report

Today on 5 July 2016, the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) together with CAN Europe, WWF Europe and Sandbag have launched a joint report entitled Europe’s Dark Cloud: How coal-burning countries are making their neighbours sick.

 

 

June 12 – 13, 2016

Bhurban, Pakistan.
(Photo)

The Pakistani Ministry of Climate Change, GoP, in collaboration with BRS Secretariat, Geneva, organized a two day Hazardous Waste Assessment National Workshop on “Environmentally Sound Management of Waste from Ship Recycling in Pakistan”.

 

31 May – June 1, 2016

UNEP Regional Office for Asia Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand

ISDE-DB members from Asia Ms. Siddika Sultana (Bangladesh), Dr. Patnaik Gourishankar and Dr. Mahmood A. Khwaja participated in the Asian NGO Summit and Asian workshop on “Successful Strategies to Phase Down Amalgam use towards Mercury Free Dentistry".

 

March 10-15, 2016

Dead Sea City, Jordan

Minamata Convention on Mercury, Speach by our president

Our president Dr. Mahmood A. Khwaja spoke at the convention meeting.
 


February 16-18, 2016

Islamabad, Pakistan


National Inception/Training Workshop.

Our president Dr. Mahmood A. Khwaja gave an invited presentation on "Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) chemicals and National Action Plan (NIP)" during the workshop organized by Ministry of Climate Change.

January 29, 2016

Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program

The Lauder Institute, University of Pennsylvania, published its "2015 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report".


SDPI, our affiliate from Pakistan, and home to our current president, is listed among top 100 think tanks of the world in more than one category (e.g. number 38 of World’s Top Trans-disciplinary Research Think Tanks).

November 24, 2015

Arezzo, Italy

Today ISDE Italia launched the PROGRAM on e-education and ISDE Junior.


November 12, 2015

Canada

Health experts call on newly elected Canadian government to protect health and ban asbestos

Kathleen Ruff, RightOnCanada.ca, November 12, 2015: Over 140 civil society organisations (inclusing ISDE), medical doctors and health experts from Canada and around the world have written to Canada's newly elected Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, calling on his government to ban asbestos.
Asbestos is the biggest occupational killer of Canadian workers, yet millions of dollars' worth of asbestos-containing goods are imported into Canada each year, exposing increased numbers of Canadians to harm.
For decades, the Canadian government funded the asbestos lobby and has played a leading global role to promote the use of asbestos in countries in the global South.

Octber 08, 2015

SAICM intl. negotiations

Pharmaceuticals in the Environment


After 5 years of hard work, ISDE International Secretary is glad to announce you that from NOW on Environmental Persistent Pharmaceutical Pollutants (EPPP) is part of the International Agenda of Chemicals.

After an intense week of discussion and deliberations, the International Conference on Chemical Management -ICCM4- under the Strategic Approach for the International Management of Chemicals -SAICM declare by CONSENSUS that chemicals of pharmaceutical origin present and persistent in the environment are a a new and emerging issue of concern.

ISDE presented this issue at the Open Ended Working Group of SAICM on 2011 and since then have been working to make this important issue visible and comprensible for countries and different stakeholders.

EPPP is an emerging problem and consequences on health are not yet well defined. The current scenario of pollution, by example of surface water with this kind of chemicals from pharmaceutical, is not well known either but the scientific evidence is strong and increasing fast enough to call the attention of all sectors and invite them to work together.

SAICM ICCM4 invited the different sectors to join effort to work and develop a Global Plan of Work to tackle this problem.

From now on, medical doctors and health professionals in general have a new commitment and is expected to take active part and promote actions among colleagues, Public Health authorities as well as inform patients on the best practices.

July 09, 2015

Beijing, China

Chemicals in Products Dr.Mahmood A. Khwaja, Senior Adviser, Chemicals, Hazardous Wastes/Sites and Sustainable Industrial Development, SDPI, Islamabad was invited participant, representing International Society of Doctors for the Environment (ISDE), of the three-day workshop, July 7-9, 2015 on "Chemicals in Products (CiP)", in Beijing, China. The workshop was organized by United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and Ministry of Environmental Protection of China (MEP-FECO). Forty four (44) stakeholders, representing government, industry, R& D institutions, environment and health NGOs, chemical agencies, UNEP and others, from 17 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe & USA/West Indies and Latin America, participated in the workshop.

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