ICOH President Dr. Takala recognized with The Dr. Irving Selikoff Lifetime Achievement Award

The ICOH President Dr. Jukka Takala has received the prestigious Dr. Irving Selikoff Lifetime Achievement Award from Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization, in honor of his tireless dedication to increasing awareness about asbestos to eliminate diseases and for research that leads to a cure.

Dr Richard Lemen, US Assistant Surgeon General emeritus handed over the Award, a recognition of Lifetime Achievement of also all global co-colleagues.

ICOH 2018 - Announcement of the ICOH General Assembly

We are approaching the Congress in Dublin with large attendance. All the ICOH members in good standing are invited to participate in the General Assembly scheduled for Sunday 29 April 2018, Wicklow Hall 2, second floor,
Convention Centre Dublin Spencer Dock, N Wall Quay, North Dock, Dublin 1, Ireland.
The first meeting call will be at 13:30; The second meeting call will be at 14:00. Check in time will start at 13:00.

Information about the Congress are available at http://icoh2018.org/2018/

We are glad to announce the release of the full ICOH 2018 Congress programme.

The theme is “Occupational Health and Wellbeing: linking research to practice” and includes 11 plenary and 32 semi-plenary invited presentations.
Plenary and Semi-Plenary sessions will encompass a wide range of the latest topics with details of the speakers and their presentations available on wwww.icoh2018.org.

Bid Submission ICOH 2024 - Candidates countries

The elections to determine the venue of ICOH 2024 Congress will take place at ICOH 2018 in Dublin (April 29 – May 4), after presentations by proposed host countries and taking into consideration the recommendation of the Board (Article 6, section 1 of the Constitution).

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The Special Issue of the OSH Newsletter is published through the collaborative effort of the ILO, the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH), and the Department of Public Health / Occupational Health of Helsinki University (HU).