EcoHealth

13th Annual German-Japanese Colloquium

Jointly organized by: JSPS, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU)
Date: January 11-12, 2017
Venue: Basel, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU)
 

PROGRAM (134 KB)
 

January 11th

08:30

1. Opening session (closed session)

  • Welcome by Jürg Utzinger (Director Swiss TPH)

  • Keichi Kodaira (JSPS)

  • Yo-Ichiro Sato (NIHU)

 

09:15

2. Ecohealth in the 21st century (closed session)

  • Ecohealth and communicable diseases
    Jürg Utzinger, Director Swiss TPH

  • Ecohealth and the challenges of the 21st century
    Kazuhiko Moji, Nagasaki University

  • Moderated discussion (Jakob Zinsstag)

  • Group photo

 

10:30

Break

11:00

3. Transdisciplinarity (closed session)

  • Transdisciplinarity in Switzerland
    Theres Paulsen, TD-net, Swiss Academies of Sciences

  • Ecohealth, transdisciplinarity and participation
    Hein Mallee, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Japan

  • Moderated discussion (Hein Mallee)

 

12:00

Lunch Break

13:30

4. Food and health (closed session), chaired by Dr. Prof Ryo Kohsaka, Tohoku University

  • Rice and fish - a package of food for humans as an omnivorous mammal
    Yo-Ichiro Sato, National Institute of the Humanities

  • Adaptation to a low-protein diet among Papua New Guinea Highlanders
    Masahiro Umezaki, Tokyo University

  • The health transition in Indonesia
    Makiko Sekiyama, Tokyo University

  • Moderated discussion (Yo-Ichiro Sato)

 

14:50

Break

15:20

5. Africa session (public session)

  • Climate change, ecosystems and health in Africa
    Guéladio Cissé, Ecosystem Health Sciences Unit, Swiss TPH:

  • Practical agro-ecosystems management with fragile environments in semi-arid Africa under desertification
    Ueru Tanaka, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature

  • Pastoral production systems and food security in Africa
    Bassirou Bonfoh, Director Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifique en Côte d’Ivoire

  • Incentive-based improvement of food safety and zoonosis risks in sub-Saharan Africa
    Kohei Makita

  • Moderated discussion (Jakob Zinsstag)

 

19.00

Conference Dinner

 

January 12th

09:00

6. Environmental risks and long- term effects on non- communicable diseases
chaired by Dr. Hong Wei Jiang, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature

  • The Sapaldia cohort and ecohealth in Switzerland
    Nicole Probst-Hensch, Head, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss TPH

  • Environmental pollution and NCDs in Japanese context
    Chiho Watanabe, The University of Tokyo

  • Ageing populations in Asia and Africa. Health transition and environmental exposure: a social science perspective
    Piet van Eeuwijk, Department of Anthropology, University of Basel and Swiss TPH

  • Moderated discussion (Yo-Ichiro Sato)

 

10:20

Break

10:50

7. Science café (closed session)

Environmental issues and health in Japan, Switzerland and African countries, in 3 groups

12:30

Lunch Break

13:30

8. Science café (continued) (closed session)

  • Developing ideas for collaboration in small groups

  • Summarizing the science café and putting it into the perspective of ecosystem approaches to health
    Jakob Zinsstag, Swiss TPH:

 

15:30

Break

16:00

9. Development of an ecohealth agenda between Japan, Europe and Africa

  • Outlining an editorial and / or publication for the journal Ecohealth

  • Closing / Wrap up