2011 International Scientific Conference on EMF and Health

Wednesday 16 November and Thursday 17 November 2011

Venue:
European Commission, Charlemagne building, Rue de la Loi, 1040 Brussels, Belgium

Introduction

Conference summary(167 KB)

Presentations

 

Presentations

Welcome and scope of the conference

• Opening speech(13 KB)
  Willem Penning, European Commission DG SANCO
  
  
• Setting the scene – Views from the European Parliament  français (fr)
  Michèle Rivasi, MEP Greens
  
  

Session 1: Introduction, Horizontal topics, General outline

• Fundamentals of interaction with people(2 MB)
  Philip Chadwick, EMFields Ltd
  
  
• Basics of Risk Assessment(4 MB)
  Christopher Portier, US Center for Disease Control
  
  
• Exposure Assessment and Dosimetry – Aspects of Reliability(2 MB)
  Georg Neubauer, Austrian Institute of Technology
  
  
• Exposure Assessment for Epidemiological Studies(3 MB)
  Simon Mann, UK Health Protection Agency
  
  
• Report on Session 1(135 KB)
  Theodoros Samaras, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  
  

Session 2: The main sources of uncertainty in EMF health research and how they are addressed?

• Sources of uncertainty in epidemiological studies(3 MB)
  Anssi Auvinen, Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, Finland
  
  
• Laboratory studies(2 MB)
  Carmela Marino, Italian National Agency for New Technologies
  
  

Session 3: Current state of knowledge – Where are the areas of scientific consensus (consistency, coherence)

• Extremely Low Frequencies (ELF)(184 KB)
  Clemens Dasenbrock, Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine, Germany
  
  
• Radiofrequency in Experimental Studies(2 MB)
  Isabelle Lagroye, University of Bordeaux, France
  
  
• ELF, IF and Static Fields – Cancer and other Long-term Effects in Humans(2 MB)
  Kerstin Hug, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland
  
  
• Areas of Scientific Consensus(2 MB)
  Leeka Kheifets, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
  
  
• Reproductive Health(461 KB)
  Jukka Juutilainen, University of Kuopio, Finland
  
  
• Acute Effects of RF EMF(3 MB)
  Peter Achermann, University of Zürich, Switzerland
  
  
• Self-reported symptoms, symptom attribution and terminology (2 MB)
  James Rubin, King’s College London, UK
  
  

Session 4: What are the areas of scientific inconsistency and knowledge gaps?

• Biological effects, basic interaction mechanisms of Extremely Low Frequencies(319 KB)
  Maria Rosaria Scarfi, CNR-Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of Environment, Italy
  
  
• Knowns, uncertainties and gaps: Biological effects of radiofrequency fields(368 KB)
  Zenon Sienkiewicz, UK Health Protection Agency
  
  
• Cohort studies and other epidemiological evidence(750 KB)
  Joachim Schüz, International Agency for Research on Cancer, France
  
  
• Research gaps(2 MB)
  Christoffer Johansen, Danish Cancer Society
  
  
• Areas of scientific inconsistency and knowledge gaps: Acute effects(982 KB)
  Heikki Hämalainen, University of Turku, Finland
  
  
• Overview of new technologies(2 MB)
  Jørgen Bach Andersen, Aalborg University, Denmark
  
  
• New technologies in the sub- RFfrequency range(2 MB)
  Norbert Leitgeb, Graz University of Technology, Austria
  
  

Session 5: Lessons learned and recommendations for the future

• Critical issues in ELF/RF EMF research(203 KB)
  Martin Röösli, University of Basel, Switzerland
  
  
• Possible conclusions and perspectives for future research - epidemiology(286 KB)
  Maria Feychting, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
  
  
• Possible Conclusions & Perspective for Future Research(3 MB)
  Niels Kuster, ITIS, Switzerland
  
  
• Comments - Lessons learned & recommendations(190 KB)
  Peter Wiedemann, Institüt für Technologie Karlsruhe, Germany
  
  
• Closing remarks(15 KB)
  Martin Seychell, Deputy Director General, DG SANCO