World Congress of Epidemiology 2024 | 24-27 September 2024
Save the dates! The 2024 World Congress of Epidemiology will take place 24-27 September in Cape Town, South Africa. Plans are well underway and organizers plan to offer 100 brusaries to early career epidemiologists in LMICs.
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World Congress of Epidemiology 2024 | 24-27 September 2024
Save the dates! The 2024 World Congress of Epidemiology will take place 24-27 September in Cape Town, South Africa. Plans are well underway and organizers plan to offer 100 brusaries to early career epidemiologists in LMICs. In other news:
Abstracts will open in October. There will be two initial deadlines with the first intended to accommodate those who need early decisions for funding. A late-breaker submission period is also planned.
Exhibit space sales are now open! Please contact Volente Mackenzie (volente@southafrica.com) for details and pricing information.
UPCOMING Events
Congratulations to the Korean Society of Epidemiologists and the IEA Western Pacific Region for their reent webinar on Causal Inference. More than 300 individuals from 34 countries participated in the program.
29 August | 3:30 – 4:30 pm Irish Standard Time | Webinar |
Racism: A Public Health Issue
IEA amd SPHeRE Network feature two programs on public health and race Featuring Drs. James Carr and Zubair Kabir. Details.
WHO EPI-WIN Webinar | 12:300- 14:14 CSES/Geneva Time
Zika Virus: Learning from the Past, Preparing for the Future
This webinar will give an overview of the current global Zika situation and the speakers will discuss the latest evidence available and lessons learned from the PHEIC (Public Health Emergency of International Concern) that are key for preparedness. It is critical to determine where the public health and clinical communities stand on the synthesis of data gathered during and after the PHEIC, how transmission should be tracked epidemiologically with a view to preparedness and early response, and what tools we have at our disposal as countermeasures against infection, transmission, and disease. Details.
25 September | 1:00 PM London | Webinar
The Impact of Infectious Disease Epidemics on Suicide: Possible Reasons for No Increase in the Early Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Co-hosted by IEA and the World Psychiatric Associtaion, Dr. Shu-Sen Chang, MD, MSc, PhD of National Taiwan University, is the featured lecturer. Details.
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