Conferences
20–21 November 2025, Chieti, Italy
2nd International Conference of Environmental Medicine "Environmental Exposures and Epigenetics—Protecting Children's Health"
The Italian Society of Environmental Medicine (SIMA) and the University "Gabriele d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara are glad to present the Second International Conference of Environmental Medicine, "Environmental Exposures and Epigenetics: Protecting Children's Health", taking place on November 20th and 21st 2025 in Chieti (Auditorium "Gabriele d'Annunzio") during the annual celebration of the International Children's Rights Day.
This event is organized in collaboration with the Environmental Health Research Organization (EHRO), the Spanish Society of Environmental Medicine and Changes (SESMA), and the Laureate Science Alliance (LSA).
Fostering the application of precautionary principles, the conference aims to promote a new vision of Medicine and Epidemiology focused on the primary prevention of the most common diseases or conditions, where the role of environmental exposures has been already investigated in the medical literature.
Specific preventive actions must be adopted based on risk factors that characterize populations at the local level, also taking into account social determinants of health, as fighting against social inequalities can contribute to the prevention of diseases and cancers. Public policies should be focused on keeping people healthy, starting with children and adolescents, as well as young women and men.
Therefore, the conference asks colleagues worldwide to come together and address this new vision of medicine cable of changing the world. To accomplish this goal, epidemiological observations (which represent the “true facts”) should guide the development of consistent etiological theories for cancer, as well as for all the other conditions which are also dramatically increasing even in pediatric and younger ages, such as malformations, autoimmune and metabolic diseases (including type 1 diabetes), or neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders (i.e., autism), taking into account the interactions between epigenomes, lifestyles, and environments. The adoption of this new perspective in medicine and epidemiology will ultimately present unexpected opportunities, both for pharmacological and non-pharmacological primary prevention, in order to reduce the burden of the new epidemics of the XXI century which will affect children and young people as well as adults of any age.
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