PROGRAM

Monday, November 23, 2009

09.00-10.00    Registration
10.00    Welcome - Paolo Vecchia, ICNIRP

Session 1 - Current approaches to protection against NIR - Setting the scene    Chair: James Lin, ICNIRP
10.15   The ICNIRP perspective of NIR health risks: facts, uncertainties, public perception and need for action - P Vecchia
10.50   WHO's termonology needs for EMF risk assessment - Emilie van Deventer, WHO

Session 2 - Challenge
11.25   Descriptive vs quantitative risk assessment: is there a best practice - Hermann Bolt, Leibnitz Research Center

12.00   Lunch

Session 3 - General concepts in risk assessment     Chair: Bernard Veyret
13.00   Weight of evidence and uncertainty assessments: more quantification may not be the answer - Douglas Weed,
16.05   DLW Consulting
13.35   Evaluation and expression of variability and uncertainty - Andy Hart, FERA

14.10   Coffee break

Session 4 - Approaches in use by organisations and committees
14.40   IARC´s approach to assessing the level of evidence - Vincent Cogliano, IARC
15.15   EC – DG health and consumer protection (DG Sanco)
            Recent EC activities on terminology - Katja Bromen, EC DG Sanco, SCENIHR
            The SCENIHR risk assessment approach and its use in work on health effects of EMF - Matts-Olof Mattson
16.05   EC DG Sanco
16.25   U.S. approaches to the use of science in risk assessment - George Gray, Risk Science and Management
17.00   GRADE´s approach of grading the quality of evidence and the strength of recommendations – Signe Flottorp,
16.05   Norwegian Knowledge Center for the Health Services

19.30   Workshop dinner in K+K restaurants am Waagplatz, Waagplatz 2.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Session 5 - Round up    Chair: Rüdiger Matthes, ICNIRP- Rapporteur: Adele Green, ICNIRP
08.30   Towards a consistent evaluation of scientific evidenceand terminology in NIR risk assessment
08.30   Statements and open discussion
08.30   EMF-NET and EFHRAN approach, Bernard Veyret, ICNIRP
08.30   Risk terminology and communication at the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Stephanie Kurzenhäuser, BfR

10.30   Coffee break

Session 6 - Risk communication    Chair: Jürgen Kiefer
11.00    Foci for better NIR risk communication - Peter Wiedemann, Research Center Jülich
11.40    Disclosure of the risk assessment process information (COST model) - Eric van Rongen, Health
16.05    Council, The Netherlands
12.15    Communicating scientific evidence to the media and the public - Tom Sheldon, Science Media Center

12.50   Lunch

IMBA Session - Omics: New tools for assessing hazards ?
13.50   Using microarray studies for hazard identification of potential carcinogenes / RF-EMF - Ludger Klein-Hitpass,
16.05   IFZ - BioChip-Labor
14.25   EMF risk perception and communication - Franziska Börner, Research Center Jülich

15.00   Coffee break

15.30   Evidence maps as a tool for risk communication - Holger Schütz, Research Center Jülich
16.05   Strength and limitations of omics methods for risk assessment - Burkhard Jandrig,
16.05   Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine
16.40   Risk communication and cultural diversity
17.00   Statements and open discussion

18.00   Workshop closes