Recap of the Previously Held Conferences

FIRST NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES ORGANIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES, FACULTY OF PUBLIC HEALTH, COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN, IBADAN, NIGERIA.

The first national conference on Environmental Health Sciences held from 24-27 November, 2013, took place at the Centre for Sustainable Development (CESDEV), University of Ibadan. The theme of the conference was 

“Environmental Health: Protecting the Ecosystems beyond the Millennium Development Goals”.

The conference was attended by scientists and researchers from within and outside Nigeria, environmental health practitioners, policy makers, students, civil society organisations, environmental health activists and a host of other stakeholders in sustainable environmental health development. 

The conference which had the Executive Governor of Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, as special guest of honour, featured presentations and discussion of several papers which cut across emerging and re-emerging issues relating to environmental health and safety. At the end of the conference, participants developed and endorsed the communiqué.

There were recommendations and advocacies for the development of a feasible sustainable environmental health and safety plan, emergency preparedness, global environmental health and adoption of multidisciplinary approach in resolving environmental health challenges.