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First IEA Capacity Building conference for the global South

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International Epidemiologic Association (IEA)

Jaipur, India April 5-17, 2009

Website: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/iea/Welcome.htm

The deadline for applications is: February 1, 2009

Information about the course and the application form are available at: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/iea/SEAsia.htm

The aims of the IEA are “to facilitate communication among those engaged in research and teaching in epidemiology throughout the world, and to engage in the development and use of epidemiological methods in all fields of health including social, community and preventive medicine and health services administration.”

To advance these objectives, the IEA publishes the bi-monthly International Journal of Epidemiology and every three year organizes a World Congress of Epidemiology, with regional conferences held in the interim.

In particular, one of the IEA’s current emphases is to build epidemiological capacity in the global South, as well as to increase equitable global South/global North research collaborations. An important focus of many IEA members is on health inequities, within and between countries and regions, with the aim of producing knowledge and evidence that can be used to reduce these inequities and improve population health.

To join the IEA: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/iea/application1.htm

Overview of the course
• Descriptive epidemiology
• Study design options (cohort, case-control, cross-sectional, intervention studies)
• Study design issues (confounding, selection bias, information bias, effect modification)
• Data analysis (stratified analysis, multivariable analysis)
• Writing and publishing epidemiological research (conducted with the editorial team of the International Journal of Epidemiology)

Course DIrectors
Professor Neil Pearce (New Zealand)
Professor Rodolfo Saracci (France)
Dr D Prabhakaran (India)

Other faculty
Professor George Davey Smith (UK)
Professor Shah Ebrahim (UK)
Professor Lorenzo Richiardi (Italy)
Dr Silvia Franceschi (France)
Dr Rajeev Gupta (India)
Professor K. Srinath Reddy (India)

Comments

Sustainable systems need a strong economic infrastructure or the social competition for scare resources and limited political influence to spark recovery will inevitably lead to self-interest, protectionist measures by governmental institutions, perpetuating the multiple crises now underway. Development and deployment of rapid recovery solutions that have a global impact on environmental and societal systems can succeed with a shared communication platform for multistakeholder action. This week's news on continuing decline in all primary US economic indicators - new unemployment numbers, job losses, new housing construction, consumer confidence, December consumer sales, and the Senate's failure to find sufficient votes for the current stimulus bill - foreshadows institutional failure across the political spectrum in the US. Bank rescue package failed to stem losses and the new administration continues to consider throwing good new money after bad money. Fed Reserve Board finding new tricks in its bag including guaranteeing and buying back all flavor of private credit and debt instruments. And interest rates are still ticking back UP at this point with long term 30 year fixed rate mortgage loans above 5.25% and banks further tightening, rather than liberalizing, lending standards. The lesson is that the US can't do this alone, our institutions are dysfunctional and our politics too divisive. A multinational approach is needed, along with a restructuring of the financial risk management principles for protecting country systemic risk. Let's post solutions that are practical, guided by responsible sustainable policies, and enforced through a shared system of risk/reward.

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