The ITU Asia Pacific Centre of Excellence Online Training Course on “Human Exposure to Radio Frequency Electromagnetic Fields”, was successfully conducted from 23rd November until 6th December 2020 by Wireless Communication Centre, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia in collaboration with Iran ICT Research Institute (ITRC) through the ITU Academy platform and Webex video conferencing platform.
16 participants from various industries, universities and government agency completed the programmed.
This course is attended by 12% local participants and 88% international participants. Overseas participations are from Canada (1), Sri Lanka (3), Vanuatu (2), Solomon Islands (1), Afghanistan (5), Kiribati (2), and Malaysia (2). From 16 participants who attended the online training, 88% were from the industry and 12% were from academia.
Training Course Structure
Wireless devices consist of antenna that emits electromagnetic wave, which is exposed to the user’s body. This exposure to human raises concerns on the adverse health effect. Thus, it is important to understand the effect to human due to this exposure and related policies. The training course is designed:
- To equip participants with an understanding of the effect of radio frequency electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure to human and its relation to body tissue dielectric parameters and frequency.
- To build knowledge to participants with the recent studies on the effect of EMF exposure to human.
- To equip participants with an understanding of EMF radiation from 5G network infrastructure.
- To equip participants with practical EMF measurement techniques and introduction to related equipment.
- To equip participants with an understanding of related policies on human exposure to EMF.
- To expose participants on the public education strategy related to EMF exposure and health concern.
- To introduce Wearable Technology to participants with the recent studies on the effect of EMF exposure on Wearable Technology.