Date: Tuesday 4 July, 2017
Time: 9.00am – 2.30pm
Venue: Orion Suite, Spencer Hotel, Excise Walk, Dublin 1
Who should attend?
The event would be of particular interest to those working in food safety, public health and science communication, such as public health doctors, epidemiologists, environmental health officers, laboratory staff, science writers and journalists. It will also be of interest to regulators, policy makers and those working in academia.
Programme overview
Over the last few decades the use of the term "hygiene hypothesis" has led to varying interpretations with many consumers believing that excessive cleanliness is responsible for increased risk of developing allergies. However, most scientific experts agree that the hygiene hypothesis is a misleading term and the use of the term continues to undermine attitudes to hygiene. It also hampers progress in understanding how to tackle serious public health issues, at a critical time when antibiotic resistance threatens our ability to treat infectious disease.
This safefood Knowledge Network event will bring together experts in allergies, human and microbe interaction, environmental health and home hygiene to discuss the most recent research and thinking in the area and explore how to explain these messages to consumers.
Agenda
| Time |
Theme |
Speaker |
| 09:00 |
Registration (tea / coffee) |
| 09:30 |
Introduction |
Ms Jenny Morris (Chair) |
| 09:45 |
safefood’s work |
Dr Linda Gordon
safefood
|
| 10:00 |
The March of the Allergens |
Dr Audrey Dunn Galvin
University College Cork
|
| 10:30 |
The vital role of the microbiome in human health –abandoning hygiene is not the way to a healthy microbiome |
Prof Colin Hill
University College Cork
|
| 11:00 |
The Hygiene Hypothesis misnomer and inflammatory diseases - and implications for hygeine
|
Prof Sally Bloomfield
International Scientific Forum on Home Hygiene
|
| 11:30 |
The approaches to hygiene in developing countries and the infectious disease risks associated with poor hygiene |
Mr Niall Roche
University College Dublin
|
| 12:00 |
Lunch |
| 12:45 |
Why is hygiene so important – developing a risk based approach to hygiene in home and everyday life |
Prof Sally Bloomfield
International Scientific Forum on Home Hygiene
|
| 13:15 |
Restoring confidence in hygiene and hygiene understanding, barriers to behaviour change and suggestions for action |
Dr Lisa Ackerley
University of Salford
|
| 13:45 |
Discussion Session |
Prof Sally Bloomfield &
Dr Lisa Ackerley
|
| 14:30 |
Close |
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Registration
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