International Societies of Exposure Science (ISES) and Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ) Joint Conference

The International Societies of Exposure Science (ISES) and Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ) proudly announce a joint conference “The built, natural, and social environments: impacts on exposures, health and well-being."  The conference is aimed at understanding the interactions between numerous and complex factors affecting healthy living, focusing on air pollutant exposure in built environment, and enriching the discussions to the effects of natural and social environments. Kaunas as a European Capital of Culture 2022 encourages discussions and forums related to the harmonious and sustainable urban development, informing and involving the wider communities. The built environment must always be discussed in connection with natural and social environments. The Conference aims to broaden up the scope with fresh insights towards improving health and wellbeing. The topics to be discussed include, but are not limited to:

• Sources and emissions
• Concentrations, exposure, hazard, and risk assessment
• Exposure assessment methods, models, simulation
• Health, individuals, biomonitoring, and biological response
• Comfort, productivity, community health and wellbeing
• Advancing research/knowledge in an imperfect world: strategies, sampling, statistics
• Exposure control strategies, practices
• Perception, communication, policy

Jonathan Thornburg will have two presentations focused on "Childrens' Particulate Matter Exposure Characterization as Part of the New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study" and "Pregnant Women’s Exposure to Household Air Pollution During a LPG Cookstove Intervention in Rural Bangladesh: The Value of Real-Time Data," along with a poster on "A single-arm trial examining the feasibility, acceptability and distribution of LPG cookstoves and gas cylinders to pregnant women living in rural Bangladesh, in preparation for The Poriborton: Change Trial."

Dr. Thornburg will also be presenting, on behalf of Dr. Seung-Hyun Cho, a poster on "Evaluation of PM2.5 Exposures for an Environmental Justice Community Using a Low-Cost PM Sensor" (WE-PO-89) on Wednesday, August 21st all day.