Title: 2006 North American Congress of Epidemiology
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Section/SPIG: Epidemiology
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The 2001 North American Congress of Epidemiology held in Toronto was a great success. As a follow-up, the Society for Epidemiology Research, American College of Epidemiology and the APHA Epidemiology Section have begun plans for a second North American Congress. The Congress will be held the second or third week of June 2006 in Seattle, Washington. In addition to the above societies, the following societies have committed to participate as co-sponsors: American Academy of Pediatrics-Epidemiology Section, Statistics in Epidemiology, American Statistical Association Statistics (ASA),
Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE), International Epidemiology Association, International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE), International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE), Society for Pediatric & Perinatal Epidemiology (SPER), and the Society for the Analysis of African American Public Health Issues. Co-sponsors will arrange symposia and otherwise assist in putting on the meeting. We hope other societies will join as well!
The arrangements for the second Congress resulted from the efforts of the Epidemiology Leadership Group. The Group first met at the 2001 Congress and has had intermittent meetings since that time. In addition to arranging for the 2006 Congress, they have developed a directory of Epidemiology Societies, which you can access from the APHA-EPI section Web site or directly at <www.acepidemiology.org/societies/>.