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Identificação: 131682Adicionado: 2008-10-14 9:01Modificado: 2008-11-27 14:21Refreshed: 2009-01-04 12:43 
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Tuesday December 2, 2008 |
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Moderator: Julieta Fierro - MéxicoJulieta Fierro has a position as full time researcher at the Institute for Astronomy at UNAM, Mexico's National University and is dedicated to science popularization. She teaches General Astronomy for undergraduates at UNAM School for Sciences. She was past president of Commission 46, Teaching of Astronomy, of the International Astronomical Union, and a board member of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. She has been president of the National Science Center Association and of the National Science Teacher's Society in Mexico, and has headed UNAM's outreach efforts. Julieta Fierro holds the seat number XXV of the Mexican Academy for Language. She has done research on interstellar medium, determining chemical gradients across spiral galaxies. Julieta Fierro has written forty books on popular science, mostly on Astronomy, and dozens of articles on education. She has created several astronomical exhibits and has been the director of two Science Centers. She has several weekly radio and television programs and has delivered hundreds of lectures. |  | |
Julieta Fierro has received several awards for promotion and popularization of Science: in 1992 The Mexican National Prize and the Third World Academy of Science Award; in 1995 the UNESCO Kalinga Award, in 1996 the Primo Rovis Gold Medal from the Trieste Center for Theoretical Physics, in 1998 the Klumpke- Roberts Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and Mexico's National Prize for Scientific Journalism. In 2001 the UNESCO Popularization Award in Chile. In 2003 the Gold National Merit Medal, in 2004 the Benito Juárez Medal and Woman of the Year. In 2005 she was awarded the Gold Directors and the Belisario Dominguez awards. She has is an honoris causa doctor from CITEM, the Gold Medal from the Latin American University. An award from the Mexican Woman Institute was named after her, as well as several libraries, lecture halls, and planetaria.
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 | Cristina Díaz - CubaFor her work on Dengue prevention, Cristina was recently granted Cuba's National Science Award. With experience on a large number of research projects related to the prevention of illnesses like Dengue and other vector borne diseases, and dozens of scientific works published in national and international journals, this biochemist has become a true expert in the area and the region. With Belgian cooperation she is currently working on a Dengue prevention project related to insecticide resistance in mosquitoes and cockroaches. Cristina is a researcher at the Pedro Kourí Tropical Medicine Institute in Havana. |
.gif) | Vijaya Lakshmi - IndiaDoctorate in Physical Organic Chemistry, Sri Venkateswara University, India In March 2008, Vijaya Lakshmi received a National Award for Women's Development through Application of Science & Technology from the President of India for her role in developing low cost and portable water testing kits and water filters for use in rural areas. Her innovations are currently being used to test millions of water samples and to treat water across rural India, considerably reducing morbidity through waterborne diseases. Vijaya is the Senior Program Director of the Development Alternatives Group in New Delhi, an NGO that works on designing and implementing technological solutions for environmental issues (i.e., air, water and land pollution) and their related socio-economic implications. One such example is her research on ecosystem management to improve the working and living condition of communities involved in stone quarrying and crushing. This scientist is also a strong promoter of alternative stakeholder partnership models for handling environmental issues, encouraging businesses and NGOs to work together to addressing environmental and social issues. |
 | Oyuntogos Lkhasuren - Mongolia
Oyuntogos Lkhasuren is the most recent winner of the Best Research Team Award at the Health Sciences University of Mongolia where she has been researching and lecturing for the last 10 years in the field of Occupational and Environmental Health. She also has both private sector and policy experience through her work with the Environmental Impact Assessment Company and on the National Committee for Occupational Health and Safety Standards respectively. This broad experience has been valuable in her research into issues such as the environmental distribution of contaminants from leather tanneries and occupational health and her work with stakeholders to develop a risk-mitigation strategy for the sector.
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 | Donna Mergler - CanadaPhD Physiology McGill University Canada Professor emerita in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), Dr. Donna Mergler is a specialist in human neurotoxicology and ecosystem approaches to human health. She is one of the founders of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Biology, Health, Society and Environment (CINBIOSE) a WHO-PAHO Collaborating Centre for the Prevention of Work and Environment related Illness. Over the past 30 years she has been involved in research and training projects in collaboration with trade unions and community groups using a global, interdisciplinary and gender-based methodology to understand the processes linking exposure and health, with a view to providing viable and lasting solutions to improve health and well-being. She has published extensively and received many high distinctions for her work, including the Michel-Jurdant Prize for Environmental Sciences (1995), the IDRC academic fellowship (1999-2001), and Quebec's Prix Phénix de l'environnement in 2003, which is awarded to recognize remarkable actions to protect the environment and to promote sustainable development. She is currently the head of a Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) team on Gender, Environment and Health.
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| Maria Carlota Monroy - GuatemalaPhD in Medical Entomology, Uppsala University, Sweden Carlota Monroy is the first woman from Guatemala to receive the National Science Award for her research on Chagas disease. Her integrated approach to vector control goes beyond conventional pesticide application by working with communities and in people's homes to study why some vector species are so persistent. She is the Founder of the Laboratory of Applied Entomology and Parasitology, in the School of Chemical Sciences and Pharmacy at San Carlos University in Guatemala. She has 29 years of teaching experience in medical entomology and invertebrate zoology, and over 20 years experience as a research counterpart to the Japanese International Cooperation Agency JICA in Chagas disease control. From 1999-2003 she also worked as an expert on Chagas disease control for the World Health Organization.
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