The International Medical Geology Association aims to provide a network and a forum to bring together the combined expertise of geologists and earth scientists, environmental scientists, toxicologists, epidemiologists and medical specialists, in order to characterise the properties of geological processes and agents, the dispersal of geological material and their effects on human populations.
Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Research: Mercury environmental geochemistry and biogeochemical cycling; Soil mercury pollution and remediation technologies; Human mercury exposure and health risk assessment; Mercury stable isotope geochemistry and source tracing; Environmental toxicology of mercury compounds.