Educational Programme

Correspondence relating to international and regional organising committee activities; post- conference and meeting reports and statistics; bound volumes of proceedings and abstracts.

1957-2006

12 boxes

The section is arranged in three series as follows:

D/1 International Scientific Meetings 1957-2005;

D/2 Regional and European Seminars, Workshops and Meetings 1958-2006;

D/3 International Clinical Epidemiology Network (INCLEN) 1992-2002.

The educational programme of the IEA was established as a founding principle of the Association's aims and objectives: to facilitate communication, contact, research and teaching in the field of epidemiology throughout the world, and its application to health care planning and practice.

Initally an informal Corresponding Club, the Association's educational activities developed into an extensive global programme of International Scientific Meetings (ISM) held every three years, and more frequent Regional and European seminars, meetings and workshops.

The first ISM was held in 1957, and the Regional programme was initiated at the 5th ISM in 1968, following the IEA Council consideration that the ISMs were too infrequent and costly for many members to attend, especially from developing countries. Regional meetings would be held in regions containing a group of countries; the first of these, an African Regional meeting, was held in 1970 in Nigeria, successfully stimulating both interest in and membership of the Association. Following another successful Regional meeting held in Sydney, Australia in 1973, the IEA Council developed a more formal programme for organising Regional meetings and seminars in collaboration with the different World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Offices on a regular basis.

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