The 3rd International Electronic Conference on Environmental Research and Public Health —Public Health Issues in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Conference Closed
ECERPH-3 has been closed successfully with 131 accepted proceedings and 4 live sessions. We would like to take this opportunity to express our appreciations to all the participants for their contributions and all the chairs and committee members for their excellent work.
We are in the process of electing for the Best Paper Awards and the Best Presentation Award. Winners will be announced on the conference website.
The journal Proceedings will publish all conference papers free of charge, and we will inform you once we start publication process.
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All participants of ECERPH-3 are welcome to submit the extended version of conference proceedings papers to the IJERPH Special Issue "Selected Papers from the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Environmental Research and Public Health—Public Health Issues in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic" with a 20% discount on the Article Processing Charges.
Dear Colleagues,
We are happy to invite you to the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Environmental Research and Public Health. The title is self-explanatory and the topics are carefully selected.
We need to look at the pandemic from many sides, and we think we have covered many important aspects with your help in the different sessions of this e-conference. So please join the conference with your presentation. You will also be invited to contribute your full paper in a Special Issue.
We hope to see the very best presentations at this critical time for humankind. Science is crucial to bring these world health issues under control and point the way forward for a better future for all of us.
Kind regards,
Prof. Dr. Jon Øyvind Odland
Chair of the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Environmental Research and Public Health
Conference Chair
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Prof. Dr. Jon Øyvind Odland |
Jon Øyvind Odland, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Global Health at NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology and a specialist in GYN/OB, environmental medicine, and epidemiology. He has worked on mother/child programs in more than 20 countries, these days focusing mostly on the Arctic, southern Asia, and Africa. His studies have mostly focused on the impact of the environment and infectious disease on fetal development and pregnancy outcome. He has a scientific production of ca. 200 peer-reviewed papers and is now involved in a new study on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare workers, the healthcare system, and the general population in southern Africa.
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Session B: Environmental Exposures and Health
Session Chaired by Prof. Dr. Annalaura Carducci
Session C: Mental Health
Session Chaired by Dr. Pasquale Caponnetto
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Important Dates
- Abstract submission deadlineDec 10, 2020
- Abstract acceptance notificationDec 17, 2020
- Full file submission deadlineJan 04, 2021
Meet Our Speakers
Prof. Dr. Richard Gray
La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia;
I am a Research Professor at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. I trained in Epidemiology and Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and did my PhD at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. My major research interest is novel psychosocial treatments in severe mental illness. I have published just over 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals; most are quite dull and some starkly contradict each other.
Prof. Dr. Jon Øyvind Odland
Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, The Norwegian University for Science and Technology, Norway;
Jon Øyvind Odland, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Global Health at NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology and a specialist in GYN/OB, environmental medicine, and epidemiology. He has worked on mother/child programs in more than 20 countries, these days focusing mostly on the Arctic, southern Asia, and Africa. His studies have mostly focused on the impact of the environment and infectious disease on fetal development and pregnancy outcome. He has a scientific production of ca. 200 peer-reviewed papers and is now involved in a new study on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare workers, the healthcare system, and the general population in southern Africa.
Prof. Dr. Jimmy Efird
Cooperative Studies Program Epidemiology Center, Health Services Research and Development (DVAHCS/Duke Affiliated Center), USA;
Dr. J. T. Efird completed his Doctorate in Epidemiology (Biostatistics Concentration) at Stanford University School of Medicine. He has over 30 years of experience in the field of cancer research, biostatistics, and informatics, having worked at Massachusetts General Hospital (Harvard Medical School), UCSF School of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, and most recently the University of Newcastle, Australia. Currently, he heads the Computational Sciences Team at the Cooperative Studies Program Epidemiology Center and also serves on the GWAS and PhenWAS working groups. His area of intest is epidemiological risk assessment and statistical modelling. He has over 250 publications in scientific journals, which have been cited over 10,000 times (i10-index=135, h-index=51).
Dr. Masoud Dara
Special Representative of Regional Director to Belarus, World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe UN City, Copenhagen, Denmark;
Dr Masoud Dara is a physician and public health specialist from Belgium. In addition to his medical and clinical studies, he has completed several postgraduate courses at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Harvard School of Public Health. He has more than 25 years of experience in public health programmes spanning forty countries across four WHO regions, focusing mainly in eastern Europe and central Asia.
Between 1998 and 2001, Dr Dara worked as a medical doctor and Programme Manager for Médecins Sans Frontières in Central Asia, and as the Head of Belgian Red Cross in Kosovo. From 2001 to 2003, he served as a WHO Medical Officer in Moscow, and from 2003 to 2010, as a Senior Consultant for the Royal Netherlands Tuberculosis Association (KNCV). Between 2010 and 2014, he led the WHO/Europe’s TB and MDR-TB programme. From 2014 to 2016, based at the WHO Office at the European Union in Brussels, Dr Dara served as the WHO Senior Advisor for communicable diseases, health emergencies, and humanitarian response. From October 2016 to October 2020, he coordinated the WHO Regional Office for Europe’s Communicable Diseases Department and led the Joint Tuberculosis, HIV, and viral hepatitis programme. Between March and October 2019, he acted as the Director of the Division of Communicable Diseases.
Since 2008, Dr Dara has chaired the international scientific working group of TB control in prisons at the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, and served as Associate Editor of International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases since February 2015, a member of the Editorial Board of Eurosurveillance since September 2018, and on the Editorial Board of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health since February 2019. Dr Dara has authored more than 50 publications in peer-reviewed journals and numerous WHO guidelines. He speaks Persian, English, French, Dutch, and Russian.
Dr Dara has initiated and led the establishment of several partnership fora, organized various high-level Ministerial Policy Dialogue me
Prof. Dr. Panagiotis Karanis
Department of Basic and Clinical Sciences, Centre of Anatomy, University of Nicosia Medical School, Cyprus, Medical Faculty and University Hospital, The University of Cologne, Germany;
Born in Chryso/Evritania/Greece. Professor Karanis is a resourceful and dedicated professor with an outstanding academic background, excellent publication record, and significant teaching experiences in the fields of human anatomy and infectious tropical diseases. Enjoys worldwide collaborating in a productive and successful team and thrives in challenging environments. He completed his university studies and education in German Universities with a complete academic career in Germany and professorships at the Medical Schools of Bonn and Cologne Faculties in Germany, at the National Research Center of the Obihiro University in Hokkaido, Japan, and at the Center for Biomedicine and Infectious Diseases at the Qinghai University in Xining, Qinghai, China. He possesses mature administrative and managerial abilities and solid experience in science policy and public health. Since September 2019, he has been a Professor of Anatomy at the University of Nicosia Medical School and is the director of the Anatomy Centre and Coordinator of the Unit of Anatomy and Morphology at the University of Nicosia Medical School.
He recognized the future of infectious diseases and the importance of epidemics and consciously chose them for his main field of research at a time when the western world was celebrating the eradication of infectious diseases, thinking that humanity had gotten rid of the old and well-known diseases. He has been invited by governments in Japan and China and has been elected a full professor. Professor Karanis has created new fields of research, new laboratories and departments, new structures and jobs with huge investment potential in the field of epidemiology, molecular biomedicine, parasitology, and public health worldwide. He has taught and researched specifically in Germany, Greece, Japan, and China with shorter research stays in Australia, Canada, and Thailand. His main research interests are in the fields of tropical diseases and neglected diseases. Diseases that affect millions of people every year not only in underdeveloped countries in Africa, Asia, a
Prof. Dr. Nicola Magnavita
Postgraduate School of Occupational Health, Department of Life Sciences and Public Health, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy;
Associate Professor in Occupational Health at the Department of Science of Woman/Child &Public Health of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC) of Rome (Italy), physician in the Fondazione Policlinico Gemelli IRCCS of Rome. Director of the postgraduate School of Occupational Health, UCSC, Rome. Coordinator of the degree course in Techniques for the Protection of the Environment and Workplace, UCSC, Colleferro's headquarters. Member of the Directory Board of the Department of Life Sciences & Public Health, UCSC, Rome. Main activities: Teaching, Research, and Medical assistance. ORCID 0000-0002-0988-7344. Scopus h-index: 27, Documents: 228; Citations: 2442. WOS h-index: 24, Articles 152; Citations 1893. Google Scholar h-index: 34, i-10 index:90; citations 4304.
Dr. Pasquale Caponnetto
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Italy;
Pasquale Caponnetto, PhD in Health Science, Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist. -Clinical Psychology Coordinator at Researcher, The Center of Excellence for the Acceleration of HArm Reduction (CoEHAR), University of Catania, Italy. -Contract Professor Clinical Psychology and Addiction, at DISFOR University of Catania, Italy.
- A. Infectious Disease Epidemiology
- B. Environmental Exposures and Health
- C. Mental Health
- D. Children’s Health
- E. Women’s Health
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Selected Papers from the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Environmental Research and Public Health—Public Health Issues in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Guest editor: Prof. Dr. Jon Øyvind Odland
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2021
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is in cooperation with the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Environmental Research and Public Health, organized by the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) from 11 to 25 January 2021 on the MDPI Sciforum platform. We welcome submissions from participants of the conference.
During the conference, a large number of excellent contributions covering key areas of opportunities and challenges will be presented. More specifically, the following areas were covered:
- infectious disease epidemiology;
- environmental exposures and health;
- mental health;
- children’s health;
- women’s health;
- exercise and health;
- health economics;
- occupational safety and health;
- public health statistics and risk assessment;
- oral health.
Submitted manuscripts should be:
- Title and Abstract should be substantially different with that of conference paper, so that they can be differentiated in various databases.
- 50% new data should be added to make it a real and complete journal paper.
- The conference proceeding should be mentioned and discussed in the introduction section.
- Conference paper link should be provided in the cover letter.
We look forward to your excellent work.
Prof. Dr. Jon Øyvind Odland
Guest Editor
ECERPH-3 1st live session
Date: 11th January 2021, 15:00pm CET
During the inauguration of the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Environmental Research and Public Health, dedicated to Public Health Issues in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic we enjoyed the talks of two main speakers:
1. Dr. Masoud Dara - Responding to Tuberculosis and HIV during the COVID-19 Pandemic
2. Prof. Dr. Jon Øyvind Odland - Reproductive Health and Pregnancy Outcome in the Context of COVID-19
The presentations were followed by a fruitful discussion and a Q&A session.
The live session was offered via Zoom and required registration to attend. The full recording can be found below.
ECERPH-3 2nd live session
Date: 14th January 2021, 15:00pm CET
During the second live session of the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Environmental Research and Public Health, we could enjoy two sessions chaired by Prof. Dr. Jimmy Efird and Prof. Dr. Nicola Magnavita, respectively. Both of them along with 3 invited speakers discussed about the epidemiology and the consequences of COVID-19 in different scenarios.
The presentations were followed by a fruitful discussion and a Q&A session. The live session was offered via Zoom and required registration to attend. The full recording can be found below.
ECERPH-3 3rd live session
Date: 18th January 2021, 10:00am CET
During the third live session of the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Environmental Research and Public Health, we discussed which was the impact of COVID-19 over mental health and pregnancy, enjoying the following presentations:
1. Prof. Dr. Richard Gray- The Mental Health Impact of COVID-19
2. Dr. Zohra Lassi- A Systematic Analysis of Pregnant Women with Confirmed COVID-19: Clinical presentation, and Pregnancy, Birth and Perinatal Outcomes Based on COVID-19 Severity
3. Roula Zougheibe - Impact of COVID-19 Outbreak on the Level of Worry and Its Association to Modified Active Mobility Behaviour among Australian Children: A Cross-Sectional National Study
The session ended with some time to discuss and answer questions from the attendees. The live session was offered via Zoom and required registration to attend. The full recording can be found below.
ECERPH-3 4th live session
Date: 20th January 2021, 3:00pm CET
During the fourth live session of the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Environmental Research and Public Health, we discussed which was the impact of COVID-19 over mental health, enjoying the following presentations:
1. Prof. Dr. Panagiotis Karanis - The Future of Infectious Diseases
2. Dr. Cristina Vassale - Acute Myocardial Infarction in the Time of COVID-19
3. Viveka Guzman - Looking for Flowering Trees to Walk Past: A Qualitative Analysis of US Older Adults' Therapeutic Landscapes during the COVID-19 Pandemic
4. Dr. Pasquale Caponnetto, Dr. Lucio Inguscio, Dr. Marilena Maglia, Sara Valeri - Smartphone Addiction through Age and Gender during Italian Lockdown for COVID-19
Chaired by Dr. Zahid Ahmad Butt, University of Waterloo, Canada
The session ended with some time to discuss and answer questions from the attendees. The live session was offered via Zoom and required registration to attend. The full recording can be found below.
During the e-conference, four live sessions have been scheduled. We have invited some speakers to share their latest research. Also, a number of excellent submissions have been selected, and these works will be presented during the live sessions by the authors. During each live session, the participants will have the chance to ask questions in the “open for discussion” section.
The live sessions are free for everyone. If you are interested in attending, please register in advance for your chosen session by clicking the "Webinar Registration" buttons which are showing in below live sessions program.
Ms. Cici Zhou
Ms. Rainy Han
MDPI Branch Office, Beijing, China
E-Mail: ecerph@mdpi.com
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