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Welcome to Porto Alegre, Brazil and the XVIII IEA World Congress of Epidemiology in 2008!

Epidemiology in Brazil is young and enthusiastic. Its style of practice in this large Latin America country has unique features. As a key arm of ABRASCO, the Brazilian Association of Collective Health, epidemiology is committed to the public’s health and to the construction of a strong national health system offering universal coverage. As the organizers of the Brazilian Congress of Epidemiology in 2008, we extend a warm invitation to the IEA and its members to join us, placing its 2008 encounter within this vibrant Brazilian context.

SYMPOSIUM THEMES

 Monday

New measurements and new tools in epidemiologic studies

1. Genetic epidemiology: design issuesSymposium Speaker: John Witte

2. Genetic epidemiology: analyses issues - Speaker: Duncan Thomas

3. Metabolic profiling in epidemiologic studies - Speaker: Elaine Holmes

Coordinator: Bruce Bartholow Duncan (RS)

Migration/ethnicity/race and health

1. Ethnicity and health in a multiethnic world Speaker: Raj Bhopal

2. Racial and Ethnic Health Inequalities in the United States: A Social Epidemiological Perspective - Speaker: Sherman A. James/ Speaker: Antony Blakely

4. Race/ethnicity and health in Brazil - Speaker: Eduardo Faerstein (RJ)

Urban health

1.Symposium Speaker: David Vlahov / Speaker: Anna Diez-Roux /  Speaker: Marília Sá Carvalho (RJ)

The perspective of new pandemics

1.Symposium Speaker: Eduardo Hage Carmo (DF)

2. Non-pharmaceutical interventions to prevent influenza transmission - Speaker: Benjamin Cowling / Speaker: Alison Galvani

 Environmental toxic substances: exposed individuals and exposed populations

1.Symposium Speaker: Miquel Porta / 2.Speaker: Antonio Carlos Monteiro Ponce de Leon / 3.Speaker: Duk-Hee Lee

Contributions of epidemiology for Global Health - challenges and opportunities

1.Symposium Speaker: Mirta Roses / 2. Speaker: Nancy Krieger

 Tuesday

Comission on Social Determinants - What next?

1. What‘s next: International AgenciesSymposium Speaker: Davidson Gwatkin

2. Incorporating recommendations into the SUS  - Speaker: Paulo Marchiori Buss / Speaker: Michael Marmot

New cohort studies for the investigation of chronic diseases in adults

1.Symposium Speaker: Richard Peto

2. The Kadoorie Study of Chronic Disease in China - Speaker: Zhengming Chen

3. Hispanic Community Health Study - Study of Latinos - Speaker: Gerardo Heiss

Epidemiologic Methods for Evaluating Primary Health Care

1.Symposium Speaker: Andy Haines / 2.Symposium Speaker: Andreu Segura / 3.Symposium Speaker: James Macinko

Urban violence

1. The epidemiology of violence in South Africa - Speaker: Richard Matzopoulos

2.Symposium Speaker: Alba Maria Zaluar (RJ)

3. La violencia en Colombia: una tagedia para no repetir / Speaker: Saul Franco

Risk: Social Sciences, Philosophy, Communication and Epidemiology

1. Mass Media and CommunicationS   Speaker: Paulo Vaz (RJ)

2. Epistemology  Symposium Speaker: Luis David Castiel

 3.Symposium Speaker: Arachu Castro

Dengue Fever: epidemiologic characteristics and challenges regarding its prevention

1. 25 years of dengue in Brazil:epidemiological differences and similarities between Brazil and Southeast Asia

Symposium Speaker: Maria da Glória Lima Cruz Teixeira (BA)

2. Case Western University Risk factors associated with the occurrence of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever

Symposium Speaker: Ronald Edward Blanton

3. The strategies of dengue control in Brazil      : Giovanini Evelim Coelho (DF)

4. Limits, advances and challenges in Dengue Fever Control in the world Speaker: Paul Reiter

Health Metrics NetworkFramework

1. Using Population Census to Measure Maternal Mortality; experience from countries  Speaker: Bernardo Lanza Queiroz (MG)

2. Using Verbal Autopsy in Post-Census Survey to Capture Causes of Death in Mozambique Speaker: Yusuf Hemed

3. Improving civil registration for better mortality statistics  Speaker: Wahyu Retno MAHANANI

4. Linking disease surveillance with public health action  Speaker: Michael St. Louis

5. Routine health information systems for better service provision

New paradigms for disease causation in chronic diseases

1. Integrating lifecourse, environmental, molecular and epigenetic epidemiology  Speaker: Miquel Porta

2. Is chronic inflammatory response behind the burden of diabetes and the metabolic syndrome? Speaker: Maria Inês Schmidt (RS)

Clinical trials in tropical diseases: Good clinical practices, data analysis and meta-analysis

1. Introduction  Speaker: Carlos Maurício F. Antunes

2. Good Clinical Practice: Basic Concepts  Speaker: Fabiana Alves

3. Good Clinical Practice: Presentation of an ongoing trial, MDTU Leprosy Trial in Brazil   Speaker: Gerson Oliveira Penna (DF)

4. Discussion

Symposium Speaker: Ricardo Palácios (SP)

5. Data Analysis: Intention to treat and per Protocol analysis   Speaker: Carlos Maurício F. Antunes

6. Meta-analysis: Basic Concepts and Analysis - Symposium Speaker: Matthias Egger

Life course epidemiology

1.Symposium Speaker: Cesar Victora (RS)

2. The lifecourse approach - what are the limits?  Speaker: Dave Leon

3. Cohorts in low and middle-income countries   Speaker: Linda Richter

4.Symposium Speaker: John Lynch

Methodologic Approaches to Social Determinants of Health

1.Symposium Speaker: Nancy Krieger / 2.Symposium Speaker: George Kaplan / 3.Symposium Speaker: Rita Barradas Barata (SP) / 4.Symposium Speaker: Antony Blakely

Mega-trials - Methodologic aspects and illustrative cases

1. Ghana: Vitamin A supplementation and maternal and child mortality   Speaker: Betty Kirkwood

2. Brazil: BCG and leprosy      Speaker: Laura Rodrigues

Building effectiveness in the health system

1. The role of NICE   Speaker: Mike Kelly

2. The experience of the WHO Choice Method   Speaker: David Evans

3. The role of the university   Speaker: Bruce Bartholow Duncan (RS)

4.Symposium Speaker: Suzanne Jacob Serruya

 Wednesday

Revised International health regulation

1. Introduction          Speaker: Guénaël Rodier

2. Core capacity requirements for surveillance and response: What is expected from epidemiologists involved in National Surveillance Systems?  Speaker: Marlo Libel

3. Core capacity requirements for surveillance and response: What is expected from public health  laboratories?

 Speaker: Sebastien Cognat

4. Validation of the decision instrument for the assessment and notification of events that may constitute a PHEIC

Speaker: Eduardo Hage Carmo (DF)

5. Surveillance and response in designated ports, airports and ground crossings: how is it addressed by IHR and what is the link with National surveillance and response systems?  Speaker: Maria Del Carmen Reyna Maurial

Climate changes and health

1. Speaker: Carlos Nobre  /  2. Speaker: Anthony McMichael   /3.Speaker: Christovam Barcellos (RJ)  / 4.Speaker: Nelson da Cruz Gouveia (SP)

Monitoring inequalities in health

1.Speaker: Davidson Gwatkin  / 2.Speaker: Paula Braveman  3. Speaker: Carme Borrell  4.Speaker: Marilisa Berti de Azevedo Barros

Challenges and perspectives for the global introduction of new vaccines

1. Surveillance systems for vaccine-preventable diseases   Speaker: Cristiana M. Toscano

2.Global Safety monitoring for new vaccines introduction  Speaker: Patrick Zuber

3. Policy and Perspectives in Brazil  Speaker: Marília Bulhões

Implementation and evaluation of health care guidelines: methodological issues

1. GRADE   Speaker: Holger Schünemann

2. REDE GUIAS    Speaker: Ignacio Marin Leon

3. New NICE: Public Health Excellence   Speaker: Mike Kelly

 

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