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Please give a briefing of your own observations and outcomes of the congress: : |
The 25th Epidemiology in Occupational Health e (EPICOH) conference was very well organized this year in Barcelona, Spain, 4-7 September 2016. This conference is normally taken place every two years and is scientifically relevant to my expertise (Occupational Toxicology) and I usually try to attend in this event. The latest scientific developments in the area of Occupational Health are discussed in the Conference. Regarding the scope of the Conference, different aspects of scientific communications were considered to be presented including: early morning sessions (6 cases), plenary sessions (6 cases), six parallel oral presentations depending of the different subjects (48 presentations), posters (347 presentations), symposia (14 cases), and workshops (3 cases). Therefore, everything was well scientific and useful for delegates from all over the world based on their scientific interests. It is worth mentioning that, such programming and organization can be scheduled for our scientific events especially for the national and international conferences in Iran too. However, for such scientific events, adequate financial sources are necessarily needed. Moreover, lots of fasciitis for delegates were also well organized. Addressing to reach the right places on time, transportations, break times, lunches based on delegates wish (vegetarian or normal food) as well as the guidance persons and general information desk were other facilities run during the conference time. However, there were some other gathering sessions called ceremonies or conference dinner/parties….., in which, I did not attended as culturally were not suitable for us as Muslim people. There were different city tours for participants (majority of them were taken place at the off time of the conference periods, in which, delegates did enjoy getting them too. In addition, different relevant commercial sectors presented their scientific products which were most welcomed very well by the participants in the conference area during the whole event time.
The 25th EPICOH covered all major scientific topics of current epidemiological research on occupational health including:
Allergies, Asbestos and other fibers, Burden of disease, Cancer, Cardio-metabolic disorders, Chemical and physical exposures, Child labor, Dermal exposure, Disease surveillance, e-Occupational Health, Endocrine disruption chemicals, Environmental exposure assessment, Ergonomic factors, Ergonomic risk factors for adverse pregnancy outcomes, Ethics, Exposure science, Exposure assessment, Exposure biomarkers, Exposure modeling, Exposures and musculoskeletal disorders, Gene-environmental interaction in reproductive health, Genetic epidemiology, Global occupational health, Health insurance and compensation, Healthy aging and work, Healthy worker effect, Healthy workplaces, Industrial hygiene, Infections, Injuries, Interventions at the workplace, Labor market and employment conditions, Labor trajectories and permanent disability, Male mediated developmental toxicity, Methodology and statistics, Migrant workers, Musculoskeletal disorders, Neurological effects, Noise, Novel exposure assessment devices and methods, Occupational health guidelines and regulations, Pesticides, Physical activity, Prevention, Psychosocial exposures at work, Psychosocial outcomes and stress at work, Radiation, ionizing and non-ionizing, Reproductive and developmental effects, Reproductive hazards in developing countries, Reproductive health in the electronics industry, Respiratory diseases, Risk assessment, Safety knowledge, Shift work, Sickness absence, Social protection and health, Socioeconomic status and health, Spatiotemporal patterns in exposure, Surveys of working conditions, Women's work and health.
I tried to cover tings I observed during the conference time. |