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The conference is now over. We would like to thank the 1400 delegates for their participation and helping to make the conference such a success. We look forward to seeing many of you at the next World congress in Anchorage, Alaska in 2014    |    Photographs from the Congress are now online and can be viewed via our Facebook page   |  Key note presentations are now available to attendees of the Congress via the presentations tab on this website   |  We would like to congratulate the chair of the IEA Congress International Committee, Sir Richard Peto, who has been awarded this year's British Medical Journal Group's Lifetime Achievement Award    |    The 2011 Richard Doll Prize has been awarded to Professor David Barker    |    The May 2011 IEA World Congress of Epidemiology Newsletter is now out and can be downloaded from the website via the News and Links tab    |    For information on the IEA Pre-Conference Course please click here     |   We would like to congratulate Dr Harry Burns, Scotland’s Chief Medical officer who is to be knighted in the Queens Birthday Honours, Dr Burns is a member for the Fundraising Committee. We would also like to congratulate Professor Sally MacIntyre one of the congress Plenary Speakers who is to receive a DBE (Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire).

2011 CONGRESS PHOTOGRAPHY Click this link to view photographs from the 2011 IEA Congress 2011 CONGRESS ABSTRACTS Click this link to view the online copy of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health QUESTIONNAIRE FEEDBACK RESULTS - Click to view the statistics of the feedback from the delegate questionnaire - Click to view the comments of the feedback from the delegate questionnaire

Welcome from Raj Bhopal,
Chairman, Executive Committee of the Congress

Scotland will be your host for the world’s international epidemiology and public health ‘party’ in 2011. It is my privilege to invite you to join us. Please come to the International Epidemiological Association’s showcase, triennial event.

The Congress theme is reflected in the title: “Changing populations, changing diseases: Epidemiology for Tomorrow’s World.” Within this future-orientated theme we will discuss the full span of research across the many disciplines contributing to our science and practice.

The Congress partners who are hosting the conference include the four academic departments leading epidemiology and public health in Scotland (in the Universities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow) and NHS Health Scotland. Congress committees-see below- are poised to deliver to you a memorable, low-cost (subsidised) academic and social programme in one of the most spectacular cities in the world.

I look forward to welcoming you personally at the Congress.

Yours sincerely

Raj Bhopal CBE, DSc (hon), MD, MPH
Chairman: Executive Committee of the Congress
Bruce and John Usher Professor of Public Health

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Public Health Announcement

Public Health is pleased to announce the publication of a special issue devoted to the World Congress of Epidemiology, which comes to Edinburgh this August. The Congress offers the rare opportunity for the global discussion of epidemiology, and this year will look towards the future to discuss the full span of research across the many disciplines contributing to science and practice. Public Health has been working with the International Congress Executive Committee to prepare the plenary papers for publication. These will represent the changing face of epidemiology and will focus on discussions on such topics as global health, cutting edge methodology, chronic diseases, neglected conditions, and epidemiology and policy. This special issue, which is to be guest edited by Raj Bhopal and others members of the International Congress Scientific Committee, will be published in late 2011.

Conference Publicity We would be extremely grateful if you could assist us in publicising the conference. Please click on the documents shown to download a Poster or PowerPoint slide. If you wish, please display them in a prominent place in your work place where it can be viewed by people who would find this conference of interest. We would also like to encourage you to use the PowerPoint slide during any presentations you may be giving over the coming year. We thank you in advance for helping us to promote this important conference.

Chairs of Organising Committees		Conference Organisers
Executive Committee International Committee Scientific Committee Fundraising Committee Social & VIP Committee Marketing Committee	Professor Raj Bhopal Sir Richard Peto Professor Cairns Smith Professor Jim McEwen Dr Alison McCallum and David Pattison Professor Gary Macfarlane	IEA Secretariat c/o In Conference Ltd 4-6 Oak Lane Edinburgh, EH12 6XH Scotland, UK Tel: +44 (0)131 339 9235       Fax: +44 (0)131 339 9798 Email: epidemiology2011@in-conference.org.uk