CONGRESS 2001 THEMES

Advances in design and analysis of epidemiologic investigations

Policy issues that threaten the conduct of epidemiology

Fall and re-emergence of infectious disease

Ethics and standards of practice for epidemiology

Evidence-based health care - the central role of epidemiology

Epidemiology and the law:
concepts of causality in conflict

Epidemiology and molecular genetics:
"Wave of the future or Tsunami"

For specialty areas, historical milestones and future developments:

Cancer epidemiology

Cardiovascular epidemiology

Clinical epidemiology

Environmental epidemiology

Genetic epidemiology

Injury epidemiology

Molecular epidemiology

Neuroepidemiology

Nutritional epidemiology

Occupational epidemiology

Perinatal and Reproductive epidemiology

Pharmacoepidemiology

Psychiatric and Social epidemiology

Participation of specialized epidemiologic organizations in the Congress is welcome and encouraged. Please contact anyone on the Planning Committee.

Booths for organizations, publishers, and other interested groups are available. Please contact the Committee Staff.

PLANNING COMMITTEE
CONGRESS 2001

Michael B. Bracken
 Yale University, Chair

Mary Chipman
 University of Toronto

Julie Buring
 Harvard University

Betsy Foxman
 University of Michigan

Marlene Goldman
 New England Research Institute

Robert Hiatt
 National Cancer Institute

Richard Kaslow
 University of Alabama at Birmingham

Nancy Kreiger
 University of Toronto

Marian Passannante
 University of Medicine and Dentistry, 
New Jersey Medical School

David Savitz
 University of North Carolina

Jack Siemiatycki
 University of Quebec

Allen Wilcox
 National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences