DDT and human health

On Tuesday, November 19, at 12:00 PM, the workshop "DDT and Human Health" will take place online.

This event is the second in a series of three entitled "SEGRETI - Science, Environment and Gender: The Reception of “Silent Spring” nowadays", dedicated to Rachel Carson’s work, which has been fundamental to environmental movements and the promotion of more environmentally friendly agriculture.

The last workshop will be held on November 26.

The project “SEGRETI” is one of the winner of the Circle U. Seed Funding Scheme 2023 call. The project is led by Claudia Pisuttu, researcher at the Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Agro-Food Sciences of the University of Pisa, and co-led by two other partners in the Circle U. Alliance, the universities of Aarhus and Belgrade.

This workshop celebrates not only Rachel Carson as a mother of change, but a woman scientist who had (or still have) the opportunity to leave the mark. During the event, a documentary will be developed as a useful tool to raise awareness about gender disparity, giving the opportunity to promote the Circle U. principles and events on social media.

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Programme

Chair: Giorgia Semeraro

12.00
Welcome and greetings from the Circle U. Global Health Hub
Lara Tavoschi

12.10
DDT and the fight against malaria
Biljana Antonijevic, University of Belgrade

12.45
Evidences of hazard/harm from exposure to pesticides for agricultural workers: a tale of science against productivity 
Evica Antonijevic Miljakovic

13.25
Organic vs. conventional food production: what benefits/harm for human beings
Aleksandra Dordevic, University of Belgrade

14. 00
Conclusions

SEGRETI

SEGRETI is a multisession online workshop divided in three appointments at lunch time to celebrate Rachel Carson and her most famous literary work “Silent Spring”. Since this book contributed to a change in the pesticide policies, leading to the establishment of environmental movements and to the ban on dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), session 1 (“Solutions to sustain the green transition”; Climate Knowledge Hub) will focus on advances in sustainability of agricultural and productive processes, while sessions 2 (“DDT and human health”; Global Health Knowledge Hub) will explore the use of agrochemicals through history by ranging from initial benefits to the current evidence of harm. In the framework of Carson’s operate, she was dismissed as an amateur and not a professional scientist (despite she was a biologist): since nowadays gender disparities in scientific careers and the attribution of relevant roles in public/private agencies still persist, the session 3 (“A provocative book or a provocative woman?”; Democracy Knowledge Hub) aims to give an overview of significant figures and the analysis of the current challenges of women scientists.