Collegium Ramazzini

I found a new resource while reading Effect Measure the other day: Collegium Ramazzini. Founded by Dr. Irving J. Selikoff of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, one of the foremost authorities on environmental health, the Collegium Ramazzini offers "a bridge between the world of scientific discovery and the social and political centres which must act on these discoveries" to conserve life.

According to their web site:

The Collegium Ramazzini assesses present and future potential for injury or disease attributable to the environment or workplace and transmits its views to policy-making bodies, authorities, agencies and the public. By holding conferences and symposia, by publishing research papers, and publicizing its views, the Collegium seeks to help legislators, regulators and other decision-makers to better understand the public policy implications of scientific findings. Its goal is to work towards possible solutions to occupational and environmental health problems.

The Collegium is a non-profit organization governed by a Council limited to 180 elected Fellows. It includes leading scientists and other people of over 30 countries distinguished by their concern for occupational and environmental health.

It is named for Dr. Bernardino Ramazzini, one of the fathers of environmental health. In 1700, Dr. Ramazzini published the first edition of his most famous book, the De Morbis Artificum Diatriba (Diseases of Workers), the first comprehensive work on occupational diseases, outlining the health hazards of irritating chemicals, dust, metals, and other abrasive agents encountered by workers in 52 occupations

Their web site along with Effects Measure will be fine additions to the blogroll of Impact Analysis.