Acknowledgements

The World Health Organization thanks all who have contributed to the preparation of this document, Guidelines for Community Noise. The international, multidisciplinary group of contributors to, and reviewers of, the Guidelines are listed in the “Participant list” in Annex 6. Special thanks are due to the chairpersons and workgroups of the WHO expert task force meeting held in London, United Kingdom, in March 1999: Professor Thomas Lindvall, who acted as the chairperson of the meeting, Professor Birgitta Berglund, Dr John Bradley and Professor Gerd Jansen, who chaired the three workgroups. Special contributions from those who provided the background papers and who contributed to the success of the WHO expert meeting are gratefully acknowledged:

Professor Birgitta Berglund, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden;

Bernard F. Berry, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Middlesex, United Kingdom;

Dr. Hans B, Bundesamt felt, Wald und Landschaft, Bern, Switzerland;

Dr. John S. Bradley, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Canada;

Dr. Ming Chen, Fujian Provincial Hospital, People’s Republic of China;

Lawrence S. Finegold, Air Force Research Laboratory, AFRL/HECA, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, USA;

Mr Dominique Francois, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhague, Denmark;

Professor Guillermo L. Fuchs, Cba, Argentina;

Mr Etienne Grond, Messina, South Africa;

Professor Andrew Hede, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore South, Qld., Australia;

Professor Gerd Jansen, Heinrich-Heine-UniversitDorf, Germany;

Dr. Michinori Kabuto, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan;

Professor Thomas Lindvall, National Institute of Environmental Medicine and Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden;

Dr. Amanda Niskar, CDC/NCEH, Atlanta, Georgia, USA;

Dr Sudhakar B. Ogale, Medical College and KEM Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, India;

Mrs. Willy Passchier-Vermeer, TNO Prevention and Health, Leiden, The Netherlands;

Dr. Dieter Schwela, World Health Organization, Geneva 27, Switzerland;

Dr. Michinki So, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan;

Professor Shirley Thompson, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA;

Max Thorne, National Environmental Noise Service, Rotorua, New Zealand;

Frits van den Berg, Science Shop for Physics, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands;

Professor Peter Williams, Director MARC, King’s College London, UK;

Professor Shabih Haider Zaidi, Dow Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan;

Particular thanks are due to the Ministry of Environment of Germany, which provided the funding to convene the WHO expert task force meeting in London, United Kingdom, in March 1999 to produce the Guidelines for Community Noise.