In the “Global warming and children’s health” conferences several experts have analyzed global warming consequences on children’s health.
During the Conferences on “Global Warming and children’s health” organized by Fundació Roger Torné the first results carried out in Catalonia were presented regarding the research on temperature and mortality.
We met Dr Aaron Bernstein and he could explain us what is happening at the moment and what he expects to happen to children’s health as a consequence of global warming.
Next November 11th and 12th at Cosmocaixa. They are addressed to health professionals and other people interested on the matter. Regisration for free.
Gloria Valdivia Head of Dissemination and Awareness Fundació Roger Torné The most surprising thing about the title of the lecture organised by Fundació Roger Torné and CIBERESP on 24 November as part of its collaboration agreement “Neurological development disorders and chemical pollution: the silent pandemic”, led by Doctor Philippe Grandjean (Harvard School of Public Health, [...]
INMA (Infancy and the Environment) is a research project in which different Spanish groups participate with the objective of studying the role that environmental contaminants have during pregnancy and the earliest months of life, as well as their effects on infants’ growth and development. Last September we interviewed the fieldwork researchers for the INMA Project [...]
The INMA network brings together various Spanish research groups to take part in a project aimed at studying the role of the most important environmental pollutants in the air, water and diet during pregnancy and the beginning of life and their effects on child growth and development. All medical research is based on three primary [...]
Fundació Roger Torné’s task of disseminating information and spreading awareness includes publications in different formats. Our goal is to offer instruments that serve to reflect upon how environmental factors affect childhood health to the greatest number of people possible.
Our foundation was established 25 years ago and both the foundation and our environment have changed. You only need to take a look and you will find changes that are imperceptible and not so imperceptible, that form part of our lives but seem to have been there forever. A good example of this is the [...]
Jordi Sunyer Co-director of CREAL Professor in UPF Since Paracels 300 years ago, we have known that our environment can end up being toxic if we are exposed to doses of substances. However, it has only been in the last 50 years that we have known that this principle also depends on the time of [...]
