Monthly Archives: November 2010

I am a human right activist in Canada and have been campaigning to get Canada to stop exporting asbestos.  Through www.rightoncanada.ca – a citizens’ human rights advocacy website – and working in solidarity with activists and scientists around

Ken Takahashi is Professor of Environmental Epidemiology and Acting Director of the WHO Collaborating Center (WHO-CC) for Occupational Health at the University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan.

My name is Muchamad Darisman (Indonesia). When I attended the ANROAV meeting in Manila in 2008, I was shocked to learn how dangerous asbestos is. For in Indonesia, asbestos is used on a massive scale, especially in roofing. Since then, … Continue reading →

Barry Castleman, ScD, is an Environmental Consultant trained in chemical and environmental engineering.  He holds a Doctor of Science degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. He has been a consultant to numerous agencies of the US

When I began researching asbestos-related diseases in 1970, as a newly trained epidemiologist with the United States Public Health Service there was no uniform system beyond Index Medicus and the library.  With GBAN, which readily translates its entries

Arthur L. Frank, PhD, MD is co-chair of ADAO’s Science Advisory Board and serves as Professor of Public Health and Chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine at the Drexel University School of Public Health in Philadelphia.

Joachim A. Rosler, MD, MPD, is the Head Occupational Physician at the University of Cologne, Germany and Professor of Medicine at the Bonn-Rhine-Sieg University of Applied Sciences with focus on occupational diseases. Aside his activities in special