Past events & courses

Online event

This course is an introduction to the subject. It describes the most commonly used chemical and physical methods, with an emphasis on the important criteria to be assessed in choosing an approach and verifying its effectiveness.

As head of Deakin Epidemiology, a research unit within the Determinants of Health group in the Institute for Health Transformation, Professor Catherine Bennett is a respected authority on the determinants of disease across populations, and of ways to reduce the impact of these diseases on the health of the community.

Speakers: Kate Cole, Certified Occupational Hygienist (COH) and President-Elect of the AIOH and Dr Julia Norris, Certified Occupational Hygienist (COH), FRACGP, and Past-President of the AIOH.

Instructor: Julia CottonBiosafety professionals must be able to carry out biosafety and biosecurity audits and inspections, identify failures, non-conformities, corrective actions and areas for improvement and monitor progress.

Current status and way forwardOrganiser: Joint FAO/IAEA Centre Free online symposium. All information and registration are available online.Check out the program. For more information, please contact Ms Julie Zellinger at Conference.Contact-Point@iaea.org.

Instructor: Gideon Kersten The course gives insight in the exciting field of vaccinology. The relevance of vaccines does not need emphasis in these days. But how do they work? ...

Members only event

New Genomic Techniques – safely managing innovation in times of legal uncertainty The third of 5 online, member only, meetings in 2021In 2008 the European GMO competent authorities established a working group to determine if organisms modified by new techniques would be subject of the GMO legislation. Ten years later, after a bumpy procedural road, the European Court of Justice indicated that organisms obtained by mutagenesis are GMOs and that only those obtained by conventional mutagenesis techniques are exempted from the GMO legislation. This legal interpretation triggered a fierce debate with all parties agreeing that the definitions included the 90’ies GMO legislation were outdated.