TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF ISEE

拟议的会议支助赠款的目的是举办一次会议， 布法罗环境卫生和流行病学国际会议 2000年8月19日至23日。 会议的主题是环境 泛美和世界流行病学：建立联系， 主办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 约600名与会者主要来自北美和欧洲。 然而，来自世界各地的注册者和受邀演讲者受到了鼓励， 重点是拉丁美洲、加勒比和东、中 欧洲 这笔赠款将用于确保来自以下国家的科学家出席会议： 这些重点领域。 会议的主要目标是：1）展示正在进行的 跨学科的国际流行病学研究; 2）提供一个论坛， 讨论如何促进更多的国际研究合作， 培训; 3）讨论建立联系的驱动力：目标和 （4）强调新出现的全球环境卫生问题; 5)交流最新的科学发现和方法， 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， 在拉丁美洲、加勒比、中美洲、拉丁美洲和加勒比地区的有效ISEE分会 非洲和中欧及东欧。 会议的主题反映了解决所阐明的需求的目标 世界上充满环境问题的地区， 必须改进ISEE各分会的组织。 会议将探讨 改善国际对话的挑战和机遇 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 疾病，暴露于室内和室外空气污染，GIS的使用， 流行病学和类似的主题。 其他会议将讨论全球 气候变化、内分泌干扰化学品接触、儿童 环境卫生问题、水质和健康、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.