Research

Collaborative research

Promotion of collaborative research in children’s environmental health among scientists in developing and developed countries is critical to addressing health problems in their national and global contexts. The results of appropriate research studies can be used to implement prevention/intervention and remediation strategies and put in place evidence-based public health policies at the country level. These collaborative activities also result in technology transfer and capacity building, and in the build up of a network of trained scientific collaborators throughout the developing world. WHO has initiated pilot collaborations in children's environmental health in the following areas:

• asthma in children
• effects of arsenic exposure during pregnancy on children
• biomonitoring of persistent toxic substances in children
• long-term studies of children in selected developing countries

Related documents

• Healthy environments for children
  Report of the workshop held in Pattaya, Thailand, 3-5 February 2003