巴西国际流行病学会议-18th World Congress of Epidemiology

巴西国际流行病学会议
18th World Congress of Epidemiology
www.epi2008.com

Epidemiology in Brazil is young and enthusiastic. Its style of practice in this large Latin America country has unique features. As a key arm of ABRASCO, the Brazilian Association of Collective Health, epidemiology is committed to the public’s health and to the construction of a strong national health system offering universal coverage.
As organizers of the XVIII IEA World Congress of Epidemiology, we extend a warm invitation for you to join us within this vibrant Brazilian context.


Welcome Note

Welcome to Porto Alegre, Brazil and the XVIII IEA World Congress of Epidemiology in 2008!

Epidemiology in Brazil is young and enthusiastic. Its style of practice in this large Latin America country has unique features. As a key arm of ABRASCO, the Brazilian Association of Collective Health, epidemiology is committed to the public’s health and to the construction of a strong national health system offering universal coverage. As the organizers of the Brazilian Congress of Epidemiology in 2008, we extend a warm invitation to the IEA and its members to join us, placing its 2008 encounter within this vibrant Brazilian context.

Porto Alegre

Porto Alegre, our venue, is an attractive site for a successful international meeting. Though perhaps lacking a bit of the hustle and bustle of larger Brazilian cities, Porto Alegre, with its million and a half inhabitants, is a modern metropolis. Capital of Brazil’s southernmost state, its population reflects the mixture of German and Italian immigrants of the 1800s with earlier immigrants from the Azores and the gauchos, descents of the region’s Portuguese, Spanish, indigenous and African settlers.
The city’s features can charm its visitors. The sun setting over the Guaíba estuary; its parks and tree-lined streets, its multicultural scenario, including a rich gastronomy reflecting its many pasts, and the gaucho hospitality are just a few of its attractions. With the FIERGS convention center, a modern facility with capacity to hold meetings of over 5000 participants, Porto Alegre has attracted many national and international events over the last 15 years, including four encounters of the World Social Forum.

Our Theme

Our theme: Epidemiology in the Construction of Health for All: Tools for a Changing World will highlight the following issues:

Construction: Epidemiology is one of several disciplines, and epidemiologists one of several categories of social actors involved in improving population health. The word construction emphasizes the key role of epidemiology, a discipline which integrates those around it, in this multi- and trans-disciplinarity task.

Health for All: In reemphasizing this now traditional motto, we highlight epidemiology’s role at national and local levels in developing, maintaining and renovating systems offering health care to whole populations. Within this context, issues related to equity and to inclusion of disadvantaged population groups are essential. The recent Brazilian experience with a universal health system will be highlighted.

Tools: Epidemiology is largely about tools for studying disease frequency, for establishing exposure-disease relationships, for testing health interventions and for evaluating health systems. The idea of tools also extends to the construction and evaluation of preventive and curative health services, so as to permit health workers at all levels to provide evidence-based care.

Changing World: The Congress will highlight the many changes occurring in the early 21st Century: demographic and epidemiological transitions; environmental alterations; the growth in research capacity for addressing health problems around the world; and the widening gap in health status between the rich and poor found both between and within nations and accompanied by a global divide in access to the benefits of scientific progress.

Possible topics are:.

Collaboration between epidemiology and other research disciplines
Epidemiologists and policy-makers: how to work together
Access to scientific information
Epidemiology and the Millennium Development Goals
Epidemiology and primary health care
International and intra-national inequalities in health
What can other countries learn from the successes and failures of the Brazilian experience?
Epidemiology in health systems and policy research
Epidemiology in the development, implementation and evaluation of clinical and public health guidelines
Epidemiological methods for decentralized health management
Translation of research findings into practice
Health promotion, disease prevention and surveillance for non-communicable diseases
New paradigms for disease causation: from the molecule to the population
Life course epidemiology
Global trends in health and in its determinants
New exposures and new diseases
Terrorism and violence: threats to public health
The eminence of new pandemics
Environmental change and public health
Managing noncommunicable diseases in low and middle-income countries

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This program is preliminary and might be subject to changes. Please revisit for updates.

Day 1: Setting the scene



Session Time Session Topic Confirmed Presenter(s)*
(as of Jan 18, 2008)
A 08:30–08:40 Introduction to Workshop Jorn Olsen, President, IEA
B 08:40–09:15 Overview of Advances in Epidemiologic Methods in the Last Two Decades Sander Greenland
C 09:15–10:30 Dilemmas and Conundrums from Epidemiologic Research: Have We Learned the Lessons? Albert Hofman
Raj S. Bhopal
D 10:45-11:45 Mendelian Randomization Debbie Lawlor
Shah Ebrahim
E 12:45-13:45 Use of the Whole Cohort in the Analysis of Data from Two Phase Stratified Case-Control and Case-Cohort Studies Norman Breslow
F 13:45-14:30 Analysis of Time Series Data James Robins
G 14:45-15:30 Innovative Case-Crossover and Related Study Designs Malcolm Maclure
H 15:30-17:00 Four Views on the Track Record of Epidemiology Patricia A. Buffler, Moderator
View 2: Alfredo Morabia
View 3: Rodolfo Saracci
View 4: Neil Pearce Panel debate & discussion

Day 2: New Tools and New Trends

Session Time Session Topic Confirmed Presenter(s)*
(as of Jan 18, 2008)
I 08:30–10:00 Efficient Designs for Genetic Epidemiology and Gene-Environment Association Studies John Witte
Duncan Thomas
J 10:15–11:15 Overview of New Developments in Design of Large Scale Cohort Studies Richard Peto
K 11:15–12:45 Overview of New Approaches to Causal Models (Causal Pathways DAGs, Mathematical Models, FPDR Bayesian Approaches) Jorn Olsen, Moderator
1) Sander Greenland
2) Miguel Hernan
3) Maya Petersen
Open Discussion

L 13:45-15:15 Response Rates in Epidemiologic Studies
Panel discussion **
Raj S. Bhopal, Moderator
1) Diana Petitti
2) Patricia Buffler
15:15-15:30 Course Closure Patricia Buffler
M 15:45-17:30 North American Workshop: Resolving Controversies Regarding Associations: The Role of Journal Editors
(OPEN TO ALL)
Eduardo Franco, Moderator
Allen Wilcox, Epidemiology
Moyses Szklo, AJE
Shah Ebrahim, IJE




Speaker Details

Raj S. Bhopal, Professor of Public Health
Public Health Sciences Section, Division of Community Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Norman Breslow, Professor of Biostatistics
Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States

Patricia A. Buffler, Professor of Epidemiology and Dean Emerita Kenneth and Marjorie Kaiser Endowed Chair
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States

Shah Ebrahim, Professor of Public Health
Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Eduardo Franco, Professor of Epidemiology and Oncology
Division of Cancer Epidemiology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

Sander Greenland, Professor, Department of Epidemiology
UCLA Public Health – Epidemiology, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Miguel Hernan, Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States

Albert Hofman, Professor and Chair
Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Debbie Lawlor, Professor of Epidemiology
Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Malcolm Maclure, Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology
Department of Epidemiology; Professor, School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

Alfredo Morabia, Professor of Epidemiology, Center for the Biology of Natural Systems, City University of New York, New York, NY, United States

Jorn Olsen, Professor & Chair
Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Public Health – Epidemiology, Los Angeles, CA, United States
(President of IEA)

Neil Pearce, Director, Centre for Public Health Research
Massey University, Wellington Campus, Wellington, New Zealand

Maya Petersen
Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

Diana Petitti, Senior Scientific Advisor
Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena, CA, United States

Richard Peto, Professor of Medical Statistics & Epidemiology
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

James Robins, Mitchell L. and Robin LaFoley Dong Professor of Epidemiology
Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States

Rodolfo Saracci, Director of Research in Epidemiology
National Council, Pisa, Italy and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, University of Aarhus, Denmark

Moyses Szklo, Professor
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States

Duncan Thomas, University of Southern California
Department of Preventive Medicine
Los Angeles, CA, United States


Allen Wilcox, Senior Investigator
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), Research Triangle Park, NC, United States

John Witte, Professor & Associate Director
Department of Epidemiology / Biostatistics & Center for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States
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I am lucky that I will take part in both.

引用第3楼clarinet2004于2008-06-07 16:56发表的 :
I am lucky that I will take part in both.

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