Meeting tracks

* as of January 28, 2009 and is subject to change


The conference has been designed with sessions which link to form five main ‘tracks’.  Participants interested in these tracks will find that the sessions have been scheduled so that  they will be able to attend all of the sessions in their track without any conflict with other sessions in the same track.  A sixth area of interest (Pharmacovigilance) is also supported; participants interested in this area should also examine the workshops offered on May 25 and the special topic meeting which is tentatively scheduled for May 28/29. The remaining sessions are ‘untracked’ and will enable participants to attend sessions of more general or complementary interest.

Track #1: Knowledge Transfer and Policy

Tuesday

09:30-10:30:

KS1

Enthusiasm Versus Science in Screening Policy

 

13:30-15:00:

S1

Educational needs for epidemiologists and Public Policy

 

15:30-17:00

CS6

Health service research and Evidence based health practice

Wednesday

13:30-15:00

CS12

Knowledge transfer

 

15:30-17:00

S9

Communicating Health Risk to the Public

Thursday

11:00-12:30

PS2

Misleading metaphors and stupid strategies

Track #2: Cancer: Future Opportunities for Epidemiology and Prevention

Tuesday

09:30-10:30:

KS1

Enthusiasm Versus Science in Screening Policy

 

13:30-15:00:

CS2

Cancer epidemiology and prevention 1

 

15:30-17:00:

CS5

Cancer epidemiology and prevention 2

Wednesday

09:00-10:00

KS2

Gene-environment Interaction in Human Disease: from Discovery to Population Health Impact 

 

10:30-12:00

CS7

Environmental Epidemiology (alternate event to S6)

 

10:30-12:00

S6

Canada’s approach to promoting research on less common cancers

 

13:30-15:00

S8

Environmental Tracking systems in the US and Canada

 

15:30-17:00

S10

HPV vaccination and cancer prevention

Thursday

08:30-09:30

S11

Cancer risk and environmental epidemiology

Track #3: Infectious Disease

Tuesday

11:00-12:00:

PS1

Food Inspection in Canada

 

13:30-15:00:

CS1

Infectious Diseases Epidemiology 1

 

15:30-17:00

S4

Blood Borne Infections: Implications for Control (TBC)

Wednesday

10:30-12:00

S5

Harm reduction and HIV/HPC

 

15:30-17:00

S10

HPV vaccination and cancer prevention

Thursday

08:00-09:30

CS16

Infectious Diseases Epidemiology 2


Track #4: The Impact of the Social and Built Environment on Health

Tuesday

09:30-10:30:

KS1

Enthusiasm Versus Science in Screening Policy

 

13:30-15:00:

CS3

Social Determinants of Health

 

15:30-17:00

CS4

Injury epidemiology

Wednesday

10:30-12:00

CS7

Environmental epidemiology

 

13:30-15:00

S8

Environmental Tracking systems in the US and Canada

Thursday

09:30-10:30

KS3

Environmental Exposures and Child Health RIsk

 

11:00-12:30

PS2

Misleading metaphors and stupid strategies

Track #5: Biostatistics

Tuesday

15:30-17:00

S3

Biostatistics issues in epidemiology 1

Wednesday

10:30-12:00

CS9

Statistical and epidemiological methods

 

13:30-15:00

S7

Data mining methods applied to pharmacovigilance

Special Interest Area: Pharmacovigilence

Monday

0900 -1200

 

Workshop on Pharmacovigilaince

Tuesday

13:30-15:00

S2

Case Studies in pharmacovigilance: rosiglitazone (avandia)]

Wednesday

13:30-15:00

S7

Data mining methods applied to pharmacovigilance