Conference Support: 2nd International Workshop on Epidemic of MeN: 2015-2015

The 2nd International Workshop on the Epidemic of Mesoamerican Nephropathy (MeN) took place in San José, Costa Rica in November 2015 and the experts that attended collectively wrote a technical report. (Read the report here: MeN 2015 Scientific Report). The workshop and the report were directly supported in part by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (USA) under Award Number R13ES026050 (PI: Scammell). The content of the report is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.

Support for the organization of the workshop was also provided by El Programa de Salud, Trabajo y Ambiente (SALTRA), the Vice-Rectory for Academics at Universidad Nacional in Costa Rica (UNA), the Instituto Regional de Estudios en Sustancias Tóxicas (IRET) and the Pan American Health Organization. The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (USA) provided the translation of the scientific report into Spanish.

Publications: McClean MD, Laws RL, Amador JJ, López-Pilarte D, Scammell MK, Ramírez-Rubio O, Friedman DJ, Kaufman JS, Weiner De, Riefkohl A, Brooks DR. Boston University School of Public Health: Studies of occupational and non-occupational risk factors for chronic kidney disease. In: Wegman D, Crowe J, Hogstedt C, Jakobsson K, Wesseling C, eds. Mesoamerican Nephropathy: Report From the Second International Research Workshop on MeN. Heredia, Costa Rica: SALTRA/IRET-UNA. 2016. pp. 94-99.