Rome is one of the most popular cities in the world for visitors and home of research centres with a long term record in excellence in research in environmental epidemiology.
On behalf of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, it is my pleasure to welcome you to Rome for the 28th Annual Conference of our society. Welcome to Rome, welcome to ISEE 2016!įrancesco Forastiere, Carla Ancona and Paola Michelozzi ISEE 2016, Conference Chairs 2 We would like to thank each one of you for attending the Conference and bringing your expertise to our gathering as well to all those individuals and organizations who have worked together to prepare this meeting and make it a unique event. Meanwhile, we hope you will have a fruitful and impressive experience in Rome. We hope you will find this meeting compelling and informative. We welcome you to this wonderful event, and to share and exchange ideas with your worldwide environmental epidemiology colleagues. However, offering its splendid culture, beautiful sights and delicious cuisine, Rome is ready to welcome everyone here for the ISEE 2016 Conference. Traffic, air pollution, noise, heat island effect, intense urbanization, migration and increasing poverty are all current visible issues and living experiences. These are to be appreciated together with all the current environmental and societal problems we face today. Rome sets the scene for the conference, with its fascinating historical background, impressive monuments, beautiful areas and districts. Thus “consequential” environmental epidemiology. Our final overall aim is to inform environmental policies to improve environmental conditions, limit exposure to noxious agents, and promote a healthy well-being. The main objectives of ISEE are to facilitate and promote research in environmental epidemiology, with International conferences as main promoters of such purposes. We are honored to host such an extremely high-caliber and diverse range of speakers from around the world, and we hope that the program will stimulate an enthusiastic and motivated discussion, the learning and exchange of experiences among researchers from different backgrounds. The challenge is to find innovative methods for exposure assessment, study design and data analyses to assess health effects and measure changes. The challenge is even more marked when we consider that during our “Anthropocene epoch” the equilibrium of nature has been distorted posing incredible threats to our planets’ sustainability and populations’ health. asbestos, pesticides, air pollutants, whose exposure are still to be eliminated or limited while several vested interests often represent unsurmountable obstacles. The challenge is evident because the world has to face the health consequences of well-established hazards, e.g. The theme for this conference is “Old and New Risks: Challenges for Environmental Epidemiology”. An exceptional program has been laid out for the next three days during which internationally renowned experts, researchers, and hundreds of young students from all over the world will present their research and discuss results. The Department of Epidemiology, Lazio Regional Health Service (ASL Roma1)ĭear Friends and Colleagues, On behalf of Department of Epidemiology, Lazio Regional Health Service (ASL Roma 1), and of the Program Scientific Committee, we are pleased to welcome the participants at the 28th Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE). TA B L E O F C O N T E N T S TABLE OF CONTENTS Restrooms are available outside each room 28th Annual Conference International Society for Environmental Epidemiologyĭ EP Lazio Department of Epidemiology Lazio Regional Health Service Italy (ex ASL RomaE)