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SEE-SESPAS 2013 Congress
The next Meeting of the SEE will be special as it always is when the call for a meeting is made together with SESPAS, and particularly when it is going to be held in a...
View ArticlePosition Paper: Health in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
The IEA is actively engaged in the global agenda for defining health priorities post-2015, when the current Millenium Development Goals expire. We would like to share our recent position paper.
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EpiBlog: EU and Data Protection
The rapid response committee has kept IEA members up to date on important legal issues related to use of data in epidemiologic research, especially data collected for monitoring or administrative use....
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Deadline March 1, 2013: Submit to A Dictionary of Epidemiology, 6th edition...
The International Epidemiological Association (IEA) and Oxford University Press (OUP) are pleased to announce that work is now beginning in preparation of the 6th edition of A dictionary of...
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GOARN Request for Assistance #2: Yellow Fever, Sudan
Please find attached the latest situation report from the WHO Country Office. Additional information is posted on the WHO Disease outbreak news website...
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New legislation on data protection in the EU / a follow up
Evert Ben van Veen has written a summary of the LIBE views and makes comparisons to the proposed data protection regulation. The LIBE proposal will set back epidemiologic research in many European...
View ArticleProposal of the International Epidemiological Association (IEA) on the...
With reference to text of the GDRP as proposed by the European Commission (document COM(2012) 11 final – C7-0025/12 of 25.1.2012) and to the Draft Report by the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice...
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New Developments: Data Protection in the EU
The new developments in the saga on data protection in the EU has rightly generated lots of concern. Many years of investments in infrastructure to help improving our knowledge on how to improve...
View ArticleWhat do epidemiologists think about history? Participate in a survey
I am a Professor of Epidemiology at Queens College, City University of New York and at the Columbia University School of Public Health in New York City working on issues related to the history of our...
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EuropEpi Submission Deadline: 29 March, 2013
The congress is organized by the Danish Epidemiological Society (DES) under the auspices of the IEA-EEF. The NordicEpi 2013 (Nordic Meeting in Epidemiology and Register-based Health Research) will...
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John Snow Bicentenary Meetings, March-April 2013
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and The Wellcome Trust, in collaboration with the International Epidemiological Association and the John Snow Society are hosting two meetings as...
View ArticleThe IEA and the Post-2015 Global Agenda
The IEA is playing an active role in the discussion of what should be included in the Sustainable Development Goals, a set of global objectives that will succeed the Millennium Development Goals after...
View ArticleObituary – Johannes Mosbech (12/02/1922 – 18/02/2013)
Johannes was President of the IEA between 1984 and 1987. His death is a great loss. He obtained his medical degree in 1948 from Copenhagen University and became Dr.Med in 1953. He worked as a...
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2014 Richard Doll Prize: Nominations and Selection
The International Epidemiological Association established in 2007 the Richard Doll Prize in Epidemiology. The price is awarded in principle on a triennial basis. The first prize was conferred in 2008...
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Observational research and informed consent
Lessons learned from the legal protection of data In Europe In June 2013 the European parliament will start the postponed voting on the New Regulation on Data Protection. More than 4000 amendments have...
View ArticleLibrary of Alexandria SuperHelp Desk: Recruiting Experts in Research Methods
Dear Friend, The Library of Alexandria, and the WHO Collaborating Centre at the University of Pittsburgh are launching a project to improve productivity in developing countries by establishing a...
View ArticleThe ECE Pilots a Mentoring Program
Dear IEA members It is our pleasure to announce a mentoring scheme that has been prepared over the last few months by the Early Career Epidemiologist (ECE) Committee. As you probably already know, the...
View ArticleEpiBlog: Support for Reusing Shared Data from ScienceEurope and Nature
Follow the links below to find 2 recent important documents about use of data for research. These influential bodies (Nature and ScienceEurope) provide strong support for making legislation that allows...
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IJE: 2012 Impact Factor Figures Just Released
The IJE impact factor has risen again, from 6.414 to 6.982. The journal maintained its place as #3 out of 158 journals in the category of Public, Environmental and Occupational Health. No .1 is...
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Obituary: Professor David JP Barker CBE FRS
Born: 29th June 1938, Died: 27th August 2013 David JP Barker was a physician, a biologist and one of the most influential epidemiologists of our time. His ‘fetal programming hypothesis’ (‘Barker...
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