TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF ISEE

拟议的会议支助赠款的目标是开展一项 在布法罗举行的环境健康和流行病学国际会议 2000年8月19日至23日。这次会议的主题是环境 泛美和世界的流行病学：建立联系，以及 赞助的专业组织是国际社会 环境流行病学(ISEE)。为期三天的会议将吸引 大约600名参与者，主要来自北美和欧洲。 然而，注册者和受邀的演讲者受到了来自世界各地的鼓励 以拉丁美洲、加勒比地区和东部和中部为重点的世界 欧洲。这笔资金将用于确保来自世界各地的科学家 这些重点领域。 会议的主要目标是：1)展示正在进行的 跨学科、国际流行病学研究；2)提供一个论坛 讨论如何促进更多的研究和国际合作 培训；3)讨论建立关系的驱动力：目标和 资源；4)突出新出现的全球环境健康问题； 5)交换最新的科学发现和方法方法，以 广泛的环境暴露和相关的健康后果； 6)讨论组织和行政支持，以加强和 ISEE在拉丁美洲、加勒比、中美洲的有效分会， 非洲和中东欧。 会议的主题反映了满足所阐述的需求的目标 由世界上环境问题丛生的地区和哪里 必须改进ISEE章节的组织。会议将探讨 实现更好的国际对话的挑战和机遇 以及研究人员之间的合作。特别研讨会将讨论如何 促进国际合作研究环境问题的成因 疾病、暴露于室内外空气污染、使用地理信息系统 流行病学，以及类似的主题。其他会议将解决全球 气候变化、内分泌干扰性化学物质暴露、儿童 环境健康问题、水质和健康，以及流行病学和 风险评估方法。

The objective of the proposed conference support grant is to conduct an international conference on environmental health and epidemiology in Buffalo in August 19-23, 2000. The theme of the conference is Environmental Epidemiology in Pan America and the World: Building Connections, and the sponsoring professional organization is the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE). The three-day conference will attract approximately 600 participants predominantly from North America and Europe. However, registrants and invited speakers have been encouraged from all over the world with a focus on Latin America, the Caribbean and Eastern and Central Europe. This grant will be used to ensure attendance from scientists from these areas of focus. The major goals of the conference are to: 1) showcase the ongoing interdisciplinary, international epidemiologic research; 2) provide a forum to discuss how to facilitate more international collaboration in research and training; 3) discuss the driving forces for Building Connections: Goals and Resources; 4) highlight emerging global environmental health issues; 5) exchange the latest scientific findings and methodological approaches for a wide spectrum of environmental exposures and related health outcomes; 6) discuss the organization and administrative support for stronger and effective ISEE Chapters in Latin America, the Caribbean, Central America, Africa and Central and Eastern Europe. The theme of the conference reflects the goal to address the needs articulated by areas of the world fraught with environmental problems and where organization of ISEE chapters must be improved. The conference will explore the challenges and opportunities to achieve a better international dialogue and collaboration among researchers. Special symposia will address ways to foster international collaboration in studying environmental causes of disease, the exposure to indoor and outdoor air pollution, use of GIS in epidemiology, and similar topics. Additional sessions will address global climate change, endocrine disrupting chemical exposures, children's environmental health issues, water quality and health, and epidemiologic and risk assessment methods.