摘要：The success of Environmental Health Perspectives is connected to the careers of many members of the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE), the International Society of Exposure Sciences (ISES), and the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ)—three societies that will hold, for the first time ever, a joint annual meeting in 2013. The conference, "Environment and Health—Bridging South, North, East and West" (http://www.ehbasel13.org/), will be hosted by the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Basel, Switzerland. Basel, located at the intersection of three countries on the borders of the Rhine, became a hot spot of research in environmental health after a fire at a nearby chemical plant in 1986 (Ackermann-Liebrich et al. 1992; Capel and Giger 1988). Only 6 months after the Chernobyl disaster, Basel's citizens woke up not only to a toxic smell but also to a river suddenly turned red by the release of agrochemicals into the Rhine, a result of runoff from the tons of water used by the firefighters. The event happened approximately 10 km upstream from Basel and led to the massive destruction of wildlife in the Rhine
