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CASCADE Courses
CASCADE organises courses in the field of endocrine disrupters, food safety and health risk assessment and in complementary skills such as communication, media training and research ethics. The courses are open for PhD students, post docs, senior scientists and other professionals, both within and outside CASCADE.
Success for CASCADE course "Communicating research to the public and media."
The course "Communicating research to the public and to media" was a pure success. In the evaluation, the 20 international participants gave the course 4,8 out of 5; one of the absolutely best grade any CASCADE course ever has achieved. Read more, see pictures and download material here.
You will find reports from previous CASCADE courses here.
You are welcome to direct any questions on CASCADE courses to our Educational Contact and Teaching Manager Johanna Zilliacus at johanna.zilliacus@ki.se
Information on the following courses is now available:
Philosophy of Risk in Health Risk Assessment
Exposure Assessment I: Chemical exposure assessment analysis and modelling
Philosophy of Risk in Health Risk Assessment
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
October 12-16, 2009
The objective of the course is to provide an overview of important aspects of interactions between science and policy in health risk assessment with a focus on strategies to handle scientific uncertainty.
The course will include lectures, exercises and discussions that will highlight the interplay between science and policy in health risk assessment. This includes basic and applied concepts in theory of science (how can toxicological knowledge be generated?), decision theory (decision-making under uncertainty; how cautious is cautious enough?), ethics (theories about the distribution of risks and benefits), risk-benefit analysis (what is the value of a human life?), as well as principles and methods for risk communication (how are different risks perceived?). Case studies will be used to exemplify different approaches to uncertainty.
The course consists of lectures, discussions, exercises and group work. The result of the group assignment will be presented orally and discussed.
The intended learning outcome is a better understanding of interactions between science and policy in the risk assessment process, knowledge in how science is used for decision-making, and increased experience in strategies to handle scientific uncertainty in health risk assessment as well as skills in risk communication.
The course brochure is available here.
The course announcement is available here.
The draft course programme is available here.
The course is intended for PhD students, post docs, senior scientists and other professionals. Thirty places are available, 20 for PhD students, 5 for post docs and 5 for senior scientists and other professionals. The selection of participants is made based on 1) Relevance of field of research or work for the training course assessed based on applicants description of their research project or area of work, 2) Aptitude to carry out training assessed based on previous training as described in the CV, 3) Impact and benefit of training to career assessed based on motivation letter. A balance between nationalities of the participants will also be taken into account.
Course fee is 150 euro and will include course material, lunches, coffee breaks and social programme. Course fee for participants from industry is 500 euro. Payment details will be supplied to accepted participants later.
RA-COURSES will offer funding for travel, subsistence and course fee for 20 PhD students and 5 post docs. Detailed information on the eligibility rules for the support is available here.
Deadline for application to the course is August 14, 2009.
The application form is available here.
Course organiser: Christina Rudén, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
Course committee: Christina Rudén, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, Annika Hanberg, Mattias Öberg, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, Kirsi Vähäkangas, University of Kuopio, Finland
Contact person: Johanna Zilliacus, Karolinska Institutet, E-mail: johanna.zilliacus@ki.se
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Exposure Assessment I: Chemical exposure assessment analysis and modelling
Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
November 16-20, 2009
The objective of the course is is to give an introduction into the field of exposure assessment with specific focus on chemical analysis and various modelling techniques.
The course will include the following topics: Environmental pollutants, analytical chemistry, and strategies for sampling, modelling and interpretation of data. Quality issues will also be covered related to environmental concentrations data and exposure assessment processes as an integrated part of risk assessment protocols.
The course consists of lectures, demonstrations of chemical analyses and a group work in form of a mini-case study where the participants will be given opportunities to take lead in the first steps of an exposure assessment. The mini-case study will e.g. include issues of sampling strategies, designing an exposure assessment and ordering of analytical chemistry data.
The intended learning outcome is to reach an understanding of exposure assessment procedures and fundamental environmental analytical chemistry to be able to examine quality of analytical data and understand modelling techniques as a complementary tool to the use of data of environmental and human levels.
The course brochure is available here.
The course announcement is available here.
The draft course programme is available here.
The course is intended for PhD students, post docs, senior scientists and other professionals. Thirty places are available, 20 for PhD students, 5 for post docs and 5 for senior scientists and other professionals. The selection of participants is made based on 1) Relevance of field of research or work for the training course assessed based on applicants description of their research project or area of work, 2) Aptitude to carry out training assessed based on previous training as described in the CV, 3) Impact and benefit of training to career assessed based on motivation letter. A balance between nationalities of the participants will also be taken into account.
Course fee is 150 euro and will include course material, lunches, coffee breaks and social programme. Course fee for participants from industry is 500 euro. Payment details will be supplied to accepted participants later.
RA-COURSES will offer funding for travel, subsistence and course fee for 20 PhD students and 5 post docs. Detailed information on the eligibility rules for the support is available here.
Deadline for application to the course is September 18, 2009.
The application form is available here.
Course organiser: Patrik Andersson and Karin Wiberg, Umeå University, Sweden.
Course committee: Patrik Andersson and Karin Wiberg, Umeå University, Sweden, Annika Hanberg and Mattias Öberg, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, Chris Talsness, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany, Polly Boon, RIKILT-Institute of Food Safety, Netherlands.
Contact person: Johanna Zilliacus, Karolinska Institutet, E-mail: johanna.zilliacus@ki.se
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