World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health


Department of Environmental Health Engineering

Faculty of Public Health

Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education & Research

(Deemed to be University)

Accredited by NAAC with A++ Grade & Graded by UGC as Category I University


Indian Council of Medical Research

Center for Advanced Research on Environmental Health : Air Pollution

Papers Presented

Important papers presented in national and international conferences by the Faculties of our department
1. Balakrishnan K. Country representative at World Bank Consultation on Indoor Air Pollution organized by the Foreign Loan Office, Beijing China, February, 2002.
2. Balakrishnan K Plenary speaker on indoor air pollution and children’s health at the International Conference on Children’s Health organized by the World Health Organisation , Bangkok, March 2002.
3. Paper presentation by S. Sankar, R. Ayyappan, Joerg Arnold and K Balakrishnan entitled
Balakrishnan K. Country representative at World Bank Consultation on Indoor Air Pollution organized by the Foreign Loan Office, Beijing China, 2002.
4. Invited paper presentation at the South East Asian Regional Workshop on Household Energy, Indoor air pollution and Health organized by The World Bank and Tata Energy Research Institute, New Delhi by Dr. Kalpana Balakrishnan entitled” Exposures to respirable particulate matter in rural households of Andhra Pradesh: results of a state level exercise", May 2002.
5. Invited case study presentation entitled “ Job-exposure- health profile for the tanning industry in Southern India “ by Dr. Joerg Arnold, American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exposition, San Diego, California 1-5, June 2002
6. Balakrishanan K. Invited speaker for the World Bank symposium on addressing indoor air quality issues in developing countries entitled “Respirable particulate levels in rural households of Andhra pradesh, India - daily concentrations and time activity data” Indoor Air 2002 – 9th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate, held on June 30-July 5 2002 at Monterey, California
7. The following papers were presented at the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology meeting in Vancouver, Canada, 10 -14 August 2002.
8. K Balakrishnan, S Sankar, R Padmavathi, J Arnold, S Mehta, KR Smith,C Rao, S Kumar, P Kumar, S Akbar, K Lvovsky. Exposures to Respirable particulate levels in rural households of Andhra pradesh, India
9. Sambandam Sankar, Ramaswamy Padmavathi, Pradeep Rajan, Ramalingam Ayyappan, Joerg Arnold, Kalpana Balakrishnan. Job-exposure-health profile for workers exposed to respirable dusts in textile units of Tamil Nadu, India: results of preliminary investigations.
10. Padmavathi R, Sankar S, , Balakrishanan K, Thansekaran V. Pulmonary function of rural women of Tamil Nadu, India -links to exposures from bio-fuel combustion.
11. Howard Hu, Naveen Thomas, V Kartigeyan, S Sankar, R. Padmavathi, David Bellinger, Kalpana Balakrishnan. Lead exposure, IQ and behavior in elementary school children living in Chennai (Madras), India: a pilot study.