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Hyatt Regency,
Bethesda MD
October 2-4, 1999
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Download annual meeting preliminary program in PDF)
The development of sound
policies for public health and regulation depends on both the range
and quality of available scientific data and the way in which these
data are interpreted and used. Regulatory decisions often require
risk assessment. What is the role of epidemiologists and epidemiology
in this process?
Through plenary sessions
and pre-conference workshops, the 1999 meeting will focus on important
issues in this controversial and growing area.
- Advances in risk assessment
methods
- The appropriate use
of epidemiologic data in risk assessment
- Lessons for epidemiologists
from radiation risk assessment
- Issues in assessing
environmental chemical risks
- Translating genetic
epidemiology into risk prediction
- Making policy based
on risk - politics and science
- Acceptable levels of
risk and risk communication
- Genetic susceptibility
- emerging challenges
- Ethical implications
for society and the profession
Through debate and roundtables,
the meeting will also provide an opportunity to discuss how government
policies and the interests of regulated industries and exposed communities
may change the way we operate.
- Guidelines and standards
of practice
- Access to data by epidemiologists,
government, and industry
- Setting the research
agenda
- Tensions between researchers,
regulators, and the regulated
- Epidemiology and the
courts
Abstracts on any topic
relevant to epidemiology will be considered for poster presentation.
For further
information contact the College at:
4101 Lake
Boone Trail, Suite 201, Raleigh, NC 27607
Phone: (919) 787-5181 Fax: (919) 787-4916
E-mail: info@acepidemiology.org
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Last update 7/8/1999
by Nicholas
Steadman
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