19-21 May - London 15Hatfields
Increasing pressures from pests that vector diseases or create unhealthy living conditions demand effective control measures that meet the needs of the public health community and ensure public and environmental safety. The organisers have jointly initiated the International Public Health Pesticides Workshop to improve the availability of products to control public health pests in industrialized and developing countries.
The purpose of the meeting is to identify new approaches, processes, and implementation strategies that will lead to the development and approval of new public health pest control tools. The output of the meeting will complement on-going global public health efforts and include a framework for conducting global reviews of new public health pesticide products.
Key aims and outcomes:
- To bring countries, organisations, and experts together to address challenges facing the development and use of public health pesticides:
- To provide an overview of the scope of global pesticide registration, approval, and regulation; national legislative frameworks; and related legal processes
- To discuss requirements for data generation that are acceptable nationally and globally
- To identify approaches to a harmonised data generation program and ways to share data both nationally and internationally
- To identify and describe the information, strategies and actions needed to develop new public health pesticide tools in order to address both near-term and long-term burdens of vector-borne diseases
- To explore approaches to work share the regulatory review of public health pesticides in order to streamline the approval process and provide incentives for development; and, to identify a pilot project as a first step to implementation
Who should attend?
Government pesticide regulatory officials
Public Health Experts
Companies producing public health pesticide active ingredients and products and related trade organisations
NGOs interested in solving public health and vector control challenges