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UWI to host seminar on Children and the Environment

For Release Upon Receipt - November 23, 2009

St. Augustine


The University of the West Indies (UWI) Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Agriculture will host a public seminar on “Children and the Environment” on Wednesday 25th November from  2:00 to 4:00 p.m at the Auditorium of the School of Education. The feature presentation by Dr. Irina Zastenskaya is expected to stimulate discussion and generate awareness in the area of children and the environment.

Dr. Zastenskaya is an external lecturer of the Occupational, Environmental, Safety and Health (OESH) graduate program at UWI St. Augustine. She is Deputy Director (since August 2000) at Republican Scientific Practical Center of Hygiene in Belarus. Her main fields of interest include environmental hygiene and health, toxicology, chemical safety, risk assessment, risk management and epidemiology of noninfection diseases. She has also served as keynote speaker and organised many national and international forums in the areas of chemical safety, health and the environment. Dr. Irina Zastenskaya was an international consultant as well as a training advisor in her relevant field. Her present research focuses on development methodology for health impact assessment of low doses of bioaccumulative chemicals.

The seminar is free and open to the public. Among those invited to attend are representatives of the occupational safety and health agencies, Environmental Management Authority, and the Ministries of Health, Works & Transport, and  Planning Development & the Environment.

To find out more, please contact Wendy Lawrence,  Coordinator of MSc. Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health Programme (OESH) at wendy.lawrence@sta.uwi.edu or (868) 662-2002 Ext.  3269 or Dr. Lebert Grierson, Head of the Department of Chemistry at Lebert.Grierson@sta.uwi.edu or 662- 6013.

 

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Over the last six decades, The University of the West Indies (UWI) has evolved from a fledgling college in Jamaica with 33 students to a full-fledged University with over 40,000 students. Today, UWI is the largest and most longstanding higher education provider in the English-speaking Caribbean, with main campuses in Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, and Centres in Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Christopher (St Kitts) & Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent & the Grenadines. UWI recently launched its Open Campus, a virtual campus with over 50 physical site locations across the region, serving over 20 countries in the English-speaking Caribbean. UWI is an international university with faculty and students from over 40 countries and collaborative links with over 60 universities around the world. Through its seven Faculties, UWI offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Pure & Applied Sciences, Science and Agriculture, and Social Sciences.

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