#ISEE2022

34th Annual Conference
of the International Society
for Environmental Epidemiology

18-21 September 2022

Megaron Athens

International Conference Centre

Strengthening the global role of environmental epidemiology

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Dear friends, colleagues, interested citizens, ISEE Community,

With great enthusiasm we announce the 34th Annual ISEE Conference in Athens, Greece, in 18-21 September, 2022, which will be the first in-person Conference after two years of fully on-line Conferences (2020, 2021).


However, having learnt from recent experience, our Conference will also have a hybrid format, expecting, in addition to around 1,200 participants who will travel to Athens, to attract several hundreds on-line participants.


The main theme of the 2022 Conference is “Strengthening the global role of environmental epidemiology”, stressing the need to study and understand local conditions in order to synthesize the knowledge and make a difference for our Planet.


The city of Athens, where a civilization developed 2,500 years ago became a global legacy, will form the background for fostering the Conference theme.

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Dear friends, colleagues, interested citizens, ISEE Community,

With great enthusiasm we announce the 34th Annual ISEE Conference in Athens, Greece, in 18-21 September, 2022, which will be the first in-person Conference after two years of fully on-line Conferences (2020, 2021).


However, having learnt from recent experience, our Conference will also have a hybrid format, expecting, in addition to around 1,200 participants who will travel to Athens, to attract several hundreds on-line participants.


The main theme of the 2022 Conference is “Strengthening the global role of environmental epidemiology”, stressing the need to study and understand local conditions in order to synthesize the knowledge and make a difference for our Planet.


The city of Athens, where a civilization developed 2,500 years ago became a global legacy, will form the background for fostering the Conference theme. 

In the 2022 Conference we continue advancing our Society’s aims in promoting Epidemiological studies linking environmental exposures to human health. The issue of Climate Change and its impact on health, which needs global coordination for effective action, is central to our Conference, along with the other topics that formed the center of our activities in the past and where we have been very impactful.

 

On the exposure side we focus, in addition to climate/meteorology, on ambient and indoor air pollution, water pollution, noise, built environment and occupational exposures.

 

For health outcomes, our focus includes, effects on children and the ageing, with novel health outcomes (e.g. neurological/ neurobehavioral, mental health) and more studied ones, like cardio-metabolic and respiratory, for which we need to gain deeper understanding.

 

Environmental equity is a central topic with global dimension. Policy, following the release of revised air quality guidelines, and ethics considerations also need to be addressed both locally and globally. Our society has a tradition in working on the advancement of methodology and this Conference will include the in-depth methods developments.

 

We will work to make our Conference greener and accessible to all. We have a specific committee working on an environmentally friendly Conference and providing access to the conference for everyone who cannot or chooses, not to travel.

 

The local experience will be based on the traditional culture, including the Mediterranean cuisine emphasizing its gourmet vegetarian dishes and locally produced drinks.

 

So, we are looking forward to welcome you to ISEE 2022 and really hope that you will enjoy both the Conference as well as the Athens culture, life and spirit!

 

On behalf of the Local Organizing Committee

Klea Katsouyanni

Evangelia Samoli

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Klea Katsouyanni

Chair, Local Organizing Committee

Professor of  Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School Athens, Greece and Imperial College London, School of Public Health, Environmental Research Group, United Kingdom. Prof Katsouyanni is working in Environmental Epidemiology and is an old and committed member of ISEE. Her research focuses on the health effects of environmental stressors, mainly outdoor air pollution. She has coordinated the EU APHEA network which provided European wide results on the short-term effects of air pollution and participated in numerous projects investigating exposure to air pollution, gene-environment interactions, air pollution effects in sensitive sub-populations, health impact assessment. Prof Katsouyanni has previously organized the successful ISEE 1999 Annual Meeting in Athens, Greece, and has been a counselor of ISEE. She received the ISEE Goldsmith Award in 2006. She has organized various international meetings and workshops and has been a member of many organizational and scientific committees in scientific conferences. She has been a member of numerous WHO Committees and a Panel member of the European Research Council. Her scientific activity is reflected in over 200 scientific publications.

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Evangelia Samoli

Co-Chair, Local Organizing Committee

Associate Professor of  Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School. As. Prof Samoli’s research interests focus on the health effects of air pollution (mortality, morbidity and other health indices) and in Biostatistics, particularly in developing statistical methodology for the analysis of time-series and longitudinal data. She has participated as co-investigator in several funded epidemiological research programs since 1995 and in various scientific and organizational committees, while she has organized short-courses and international workshops. She is an active member of ISEE since 1998 and has been an associated non-elect member of ISEE European chapter since 2016, and a member of the scientific and the awards committees of ISEE Young Researchers conference in 2018. She has acted as an invited expert for WHO/EC and a reviewer for WHO, HEI and Research council in Hong King, while she participates in the Editorial Board of Environmental Epidemiology.
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