The European SHAMISEN Project Concludes with a Stakeholder Workshop in Paris

The kick off meeting of the SHAMISEN project, led by Elisabeth Cardis, Research Professor in Radiation Epidemiology at CREAL, an ISGlobal allied center, will take place in Barcelona on  17 and 18 December in the Marie Curie/Ramón i Cajal room, of the PRBB. As part of the EC funded OPERRA project (Open Project for the…

5-6-7 March 2016 – Fukushima On the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the Great Japan Earthquake and the following earthquake and accident at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, this workshop aims to review the health concerns of populations living in contaminated areas , identifying in particular impacts on living and social conditions, and summarising…

jQuery UI Dialog – Animation Background The EU-OPERRA SHAMISEN project started in December 2015, with the goal of producing a set of recommendations that would contribute to health surveillance and related communication with affected populations after nuclear accidents. Experience suggested that this was an area that had not been sufficiently addressed in current accident response…

Fukushima, six years later: consequences and lessons. (in spanish) The nuclear accident did not cause radiation deaths, but the evacuation caused more than a thousand premature deaths.

Elisabeth Cardis, head of the Radiation Program in CREAL, an allied ISGlobal centre, received on May 17 the diploma and medal “Chernobyl – 30 years” awarded by the A. Tsyb Medical Radiological Research Centre of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, for her personal contribution to the investigation and mitigation of the health consequences…

Exploring health effects of the Fukushima accident (video)