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3^rd International Conference

ORGANISERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

• United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
• United Nations Representative Office in Ukraine
• United Nations Chernobyl Programme
• International Commission for Radiological Protection (ICRP)
• International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
• United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR)
• Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine
• Scientific Centre for Radiation Medicine of Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, WHO Collaborating Centre
• Ministry of Public Health of Ukraine
• The Ministry of Ukraine of Emergencies and Affairs of Population Protection from the Consequences of Chernobyl Catastrophe
• Chernobyl Centre for Nuclear Safety Radioactive Waste and Radioecology

Honourable President of the International Conference —
Hiroshi Nakajima M.D., Ph.D. (Japan)
Chair of Organising Committee — Nyagu A.I. (Ukraine)
Co-Chair of Organising Committee — Souchkevitch G.N. (World Health Organisation)

Chair of National Organising Committee — Bobyliova O.A. (Ministry of Public Health of Ukraine)
Co-Chair of National Organising Committee — Loginov V.V. (The Ministry of Ukraine of Emergencies and Affairs of Population Protection from the Consequences of Chernobyl Catastrophe)

Monday, June 4^th, 2001

Opening Ceremony
Plenary sessions — reports of International organisation representatives, leaders of International Chernobyl projects, Ministers of Public Health of Belarus, Russian Federation and Ukraine

Tuesday, June 5^th, 2001

Plenary sessions

• dosimetric support of epidemiological and clinical studies
• deterministic effects of ionising radiation in exposed people

Wednesday, June 6^th, 2001

Plenary sessions

• stochastic effects of ionising radiation in exposed people (tumours, leukaemia)
• genetic consequences of the Chernobyl accident

Plenary session

• mental health of exposed people

Plenary session

• countermeasure strategy after large-scale radiation accident
• resolution of the International Conference
• closing of the International Conference

Conference Fee — USD400 (before January 15^th 2001) and USD500 (after January 15^th 2001)

Conference Fee includes participation in the Conference, publication in the "International Journal of Radiation Medicine" of abstracts in English and Russian and report presented according to the instruction for authors of the journal.

General Information Partner:
Publishing House "MORION"

Payment of Conference Fee to:

Request for participation in the Conference, abstracts in English and Russian (up to 400 words) and text of report in the manner of article according to requirements of the journal in the electronic variant and its 3 copies send to the address:

DEADLINE — February 1^st, 2001

The Chernobyl disaster until now has medical, economic, technological, social-psychological and moral consequences. It has affected interests of million people, having worsened quality of their life.

At present it has been established that health disorders of affected population are the result of the complex influence of the factors of the catastrophe of both radiation and non-radiation genesis, which have complied with a heavy social-economic crisis in the society.

Scientists and physicians of the world should use unique data on the health and biological consequences of the Chernobyl disaster, which have been obtained as a result of the long-term follow-up studies, for the improving of knowledge in the field of radiation medicine and optimisation of human protection under global radioecological disasters.

Reproductions of pictures of artist P.Z. Yemets were used by kind permission of the author in the design of the first call paper on the International conference:

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