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Joint meeting on Environmental Exposure and Epidemiology in Paris

Two international societies fostering the scientific foundation of the public health discipline of environmental health will meet this fall on the theme of Science, Population Diversity, Caution and Precaution.

The International Society of Exposure Analysis (ISEA) and the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) will meet together in Paris, Sept. 2-6, 2006, to discuss science and policy around three main themes.  The themes are:
*    The relationship between early-life exposures, early damage to developing systems, and chronic disease in later life;
*    The interaction between environmental exposures and genes; in particular, how understanding the diversity of gene expression in humans and testing the gene-environment interaction will improve the study of environmentally caused disease; and
*    The scientific and societal basis of protective public health policy developed when scientific information on environmental hazards is incomplete or uncertain.

This exciting meeting in an acclaimed city has something for every scientist and policy-maker involved in environmental health.  A wide variety of sessions, classes and workshops are designed to bring together exposure scientists and environmental epidemiologists to exchange skills, techniques, ideas, and viewpoints on the common goal of improving the sciences that link environmental exposure and disease, and the policies for prevention.

Visit the conference Web site (http://www.paris2006.afsset.fr/) to learn more about the conference. Registration for the conference is now open and the deadline for early registration is June 15, 2006.  

The conference is hosted by the AFSSET, a new public administrative body reporting to the French ministers for ecology, health, and employment. Learn more at http://www.afsset.fr.

Members of the two societies publish their research in the official journals, The Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology and Epidemiology.  For more information about them, please see www.iseaweb.org and http://www.iseepi.org/, respectively.

Pamela Shubert, Environmental Toxicologist
Minnesota Department of Health
Environmental Health Division  

Michael Dellarco, Dr. PH, President of ISEA, dellarco.michael@epamail.epa.gov
US EPA/NCEA (8623-N)