We are pleased to report that the Epidemiology Section will be sponsoring nearly 50 scientific sessions. These sessions will cover myriad timely and critical public health and epidemiological topics, including infectious diseases, social epidemiology, epidemiological methods, health disparities, maternal and child health, adolescent health, cardiovascular disease, occupational health and obesity.

Other noteworthy items on the Annual Meeting agenda for the Epidemiology Section include:

• 3 business meetings to discuss various Section issues.
• A Social Hour
to meet and greet colleagues.
• Section awards
to honor those who have made significant contributions to the field of epidemiology.
• Career panel and student awards
to introduce students to various professional paths available in epidemiology and to recognize exemplary student performance.

Late Breakers

A Call for Late-Breaker abstracts will be released this summer (~July).　Late-breakers must be related to the Annual Meeting theme ("Social Justice") and/or reflect recent data/work that occurred after the general abstracts were due (February 2010).　 More details will follow as they became available.

Invited Sessions

Be sure to catch our exciting invited sessions at this year’s conference:

1. A Public Health Focus on Infertility

2. Future of epidemiology

3. The NIH Toolbox for the Assessment of Neurological and Behavioral Function

4. Epidemiological Criminology I and II

5. Current issues in the epidemiology of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in the United States

6. Data driven public health practice: a matter of social justice

7. Opportunities and obstacles with Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS)

8. Social epidemiology applied to understanding health disparities among injecting drug users (IDUS)

9. Using Immunization Information Systems (IIS) to support vaccination of vulnerable populations