Fill gaps in scientific knowledge
Tools provide guidance and supportive information for all stakeholders to engage in efforts to fill gaps in scientific knowledge, including work taking place under the Strategic Approach, (e.g. on endocrine-active chemicals, nanomaterials, environmentally persistent pharmaceuticals, combined exposures to multiple chemicals, gender, links to noncommunicable diseases).
Relevant tools
Below is a list of tools relevant for implementing this topic :
- SAICM - Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) [accessed 2022]
- WHO/UNEP - State of the science of endocrine disrupting chemicals [2012]
- WHO - Identification of risks from exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals at the country level [2014]
- SAICM - Gender and the sound management of chemicals and waste [2018]
- BRS - Gender Action Plan [accessed 2022]
- Setting the Research Agenda on the Health Effects of Chemicals [2014]
- SAICM - Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) [accessed 2022]
- UNEP/FAO/WHO - Synthesis Report on the Environmental and Health Impacts of Pesticides and Fertilizers and ways to minimize them [2022]
- SAICM - Perfluorinated Chemicals (PFCs) and the transition to safer alternatives [accessed 2022]
- SAICM - Environmentally Persistent Pharmaceutical Pollutants [accessed 2022]
- WHO - Pharmaceuticals in drinking water [2012]
- SAICM - Chemicals in Products (CiP) [accessed 2022]
- SAICM - Hazardous Substances within the Life Cycle of Electrical and Electronic Products (HSLEEP) [accessed 2022]
- WHO - Children and digital dumpsites: e-waste exposure and child health [2021]
- UNEP/WHO - Global Alliance to Eliminate Lead Paint [accessed 2022]
- SAICM - Nanotechnologies and Manufactured Nanomaterials [accessed 2022]
- WHO - Dietary and inhalation exposure to nano- and microplastic particles and potential implications for human health [2022]
- WHO - Guidelines from potential risks on protecting workers of manufactured nanomaterials [2017]
- UNITAR - Guidance for Developing a National Nanotechnology Policy and Programme [2011]
- WHO - EHC 244 Principles and methods to assess the risk of immunotoxicity associated with exposure to nanomaterials [2019]
- UNITAR - Nanomaterials safety online course [accessed 2022]
- SAICM - Emerging Policy Issues and Other Issues of Concern [accessed 2022]
- WHO - Risk assessment of combined exposure to multiple chemicals: A WHO/IPCS framework [2011]
- OECD - Considerations for assessing the risks of combined exposure to multiple chemicals [2018]
- WHO - Toolkit for developing, implementing and evaluating the National Multisectoral Action Plan (MAP) for NCD Prevention and Control [accessed 2022]
- WHO - Noncommunicable diseases and air pollution [2019]
- WHO - Preventing noncommunicable disease (NCDs) by reducing environmental risk factors [2017]
- WHO - Fact sheet on Noncommunicable diseases [2022]
- WHO - Invisible numbers: the true extent of noncommunicable diseases and what to do about them [2022]
- ILO: Exposure to hazardous chemicals at work and resulting health impacts - A global review (2021)