Professor David Coggon (MRC Epidemiology Resource Centre, University of Southampton)
Chemical and Physical Hazards in the Environment
This presentation will introduce the contrasting challenges in assessment, communication and management of scientific uncertainties concerning possible risks to health from residential exposure to pesticides and to radiofrequency radiation from mobile phone base stations. It will also highlight the difficulties posed to risk assessment and management by the possibility of nocebo effects, in which (sometimes seriously disabling) illness arises through psychological mechanisms, as a consequence of perceived hazardous exposures.
