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About IFEH

THE INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH 

The Federation works to disseminate knowledge concerning environmental health and promote co-operation between countries where environmental health issues are transboundary. It promotes the interchange of people working in this sector and the exchange of Member's publications of a scientific and technical nature.

Amongst other things, the Federation seeks to provide means of exchanging information and experience on environmental health, to hold Congresses and meetings to discuss subjects relevant to environmental health science and administration, to represent the interests of environmental health to state agencies, national governments and international organisations and to promote field studies of environmental health control.

The Federation is an organisation whose full members are national associations representing the interests of environmental health professionals throughout the World.  Applications forms for membership can be downloaded from the member section.

Other organisations with an interest in environmental health may become associate members.  Organisations, which are involved in the educational field (for instance Universities training environmental health professionals) are eligible to become Academic Associate Members.  Other bodies with an interest in environmental health (such as regional associations, NGOs, etc) may become Associate Members. Applications forms for these classes of membership can be downloaded from the member section.

Individual persons may show their support for the Federation by becoming an Individual Associate Member.  Persons who are successful in applying to join this category of associate membership will be kept up to date with IFEH news and will receive periodically any documents issued by the Federation. Individual Associate Members may participate in Federation activities but have no voting rights.  An invitation form for this category can be downloaded from the member section.

The annual subscription for full membership is based on the number of individual members that an organisation has.   The majority of organisations would pay at the rate of GB£ 0.31 per individual member. For example an organisation with 200 members would pay GB£ 62.00 per year.

For organisations based in countries where the Gross Domestic Product per Capita is low, the annual subscription is GB£ 30.00.  

The annual subscription for Associate Members and Associate Academic Members is GB£ 65.00.

Individual Associate Members are invited to pay a minimum annual fee of GB£15.00 

IFEH World Congress 2008

11-16 May 2008, the Australian Institute of Environmental Health will host the 10^th IFEH World Congress on Environmental Health.

Read all about the conference at the conference website: www.ifeh2008.org