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2017: EcoHealth

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13th Annual German-Japanese Colloquium

Jointly organized by JSPS, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU)

Date: January 11-12, 2017
Venue: Basel, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU)

PROGRAM (134 KB)

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January 11th
08:30 1. Opening session (closed session)

  • Welcome by Jürg Utzinger (Director Swiss TPH)
  • Keichi Kodaira (JSPS)
  • Yo-Ichiro Sato (NIHU)
09:15 2. Ecohealth in the 21st century (closed session)

  • Ecohealth and communicable diseases
    Jürg Utzinger (Director Swiss TPH)
  • Ecohealth and the challenges of the 21st century
    Kazuhiko Moji (Nagasaki University)
  • Moderated discussion
    Jakob Zinsstag
  • Group photo
10:30 Break
11:00 3. Transdisciplinarity (closed session)

  • Transdisciplinarity in Switzerland
    Theres Paulsen (TD-net, Swiss Academies of Sciences)
  • Ecohealth, transdisciplinarity and participation
    Hein Mallee (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Japan)
  • Moderated discussion
    Hein Mallee
12:00 Lunch Break
13:30 4. Food and health (closed session), chaired by Dr. Prof Ryo Kohsaka, Tohoku University

  • Rice and fish – a package of food for humans as an omnivorous mammal
    Yo-Ichiro Sato (National Institute of the Humanities)
  • Adaptation to a low-protein diet among Papua New Guinea Highlanders
    Masahiro Umezaki (Tokyo University)
  • The health transition in Indonesia
    Makiko Sekiyama (Tokyo University)
  • Moderated discussion
    Yo-Ichiro Sato
Break
15:20 5. Africa session (public session)

  • Climate change, ecosystems and health in Africa
    Guéladio Cissé (Ecosystem Health Sciences Unit, Swiss TPH)
  • Practical agro-ecosystems management with fragile environments in semi-arid Africa under desertification
    Ueru Tanaka (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature)
  • Pastoral production systems and food security in Africa
    Bassirou Bonfoh (Director Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifique en Côte d’Ivoire)
  • Incentive-based improvement of food safety and zoonosis risks in sub-Saharan Africa
    Kohei Makita
  • Moderated discussion
    Jakob Zinsstag
19.00 Conference Dinner

January 12th
09:00 6. Environmental risks and long- term effects on non- communicable diseases
chaired by Dr. Hong Wei Jiang (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature)

  • The Sapaldia cohort and ecohealth in Switzerland
    Nicole Probst-Hensch (Head, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss TPH)
  • Environmental pollution and NCDs in Japanese context
    Chiho Watanabe (The University of Tokyo)
  • Ageing populations in Asia and Africa. Health transition and environmental exposure: a social science perspective
    Piet van Eeuwijk (Department of Anthropology, University of Basel and Swiss TPH)
  • Moderated discussion
    Yo-Ichiro Sato
10:20 Break
10:50 7. Science café (closed session)
Environmental issues and health in Japan, Switzerland and African countries, in 3 groups
13:30 8. Science café (continued) (closed session)

  • Developing ideas for collaboration in small groups
  • Summarizing the science café and putting it into the perspective of ecosystem approaches to health
    Jakob Zinsstag (Swiss TPH)
15:30 Break
16:00 9. Development of an ecohealth agenda between Japan, Europe and Africa

  • Outlining an editorial and / or publication for the journal Ecohealth
  • Closing / Wrap up