NewsYear: 2021Activity: Etiological epidemiology

The RIAS network, in collaboration with the University of Bologna, organizes a Summer School dedicated to the combination of Environment and Health, coordinated by Annamaria Colacci and Francesco Forastiere, which will be held online from 11 to 18 June.

Among the awarded researchers, Chiara Celestina Grasso, engaged in the EPSAM project which investigates the genetic variants responsible for the predisposition to germ cell cancer of the testis.

There are four meetings scheduled by the Italian Environment and Health Network on the occasion of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Italian Association of Epidemiology scheduled from 26 to 30 April.

The updated list of publications produced by the CPO Piemonte can be consulted online.

Epidemiology & Prevention launches a new call for papers, inviting researchers working on COVID-19 to submit scientific articles to contribute to the knowledge and control of the disease.

Registrations to participate in the OMEGA-NET webinar dedicated to ongoing studies on the new Coronavirus, scheduled for April 13, are open.

The full registration of the International Childhood Cancer Cohort Consortium Annual Webinar, held last February 22nd, is available online on the CPO youTube channel.

At the start a new information web space to understand the effects of environmental exposure in the first thousand days of life and to underline the importance of growing up in healthy living contexts.

Two articles have been recently published in Epidemiology & Prevention relating to self-perceived knowledge about COVID-19 and the relationship between socioeconomic inequalities and reproductive outcomes within the NINFEA cohort.

The Italian Association of Epidemiology presents the monograph dedicated to the new Coronavirus, taking stock of the studies conducted to date and exploring possible future scenarios. The webinar is available on YouTube.

The three OMEGA-NET webinars, the European coordination network of occupational and population cohorts, are scheduled for Tuesday 16 March.

"Epidemiological transitions: public health between chronic diseases and COVID-19" is the title of the XLV Conference of the Italian Association of Epidemiology which will take place from 26 to 30 April.

The recordings of the workshop on mediation analysis held as part of the LifeCycle project are available on the CPO YouTube channel.

It is called MADE and is a new tool for monitoring and analyzing COVID-19. The system uses the data published daily by the Civil Protection and is automatically updated every evening.

Registration is now open for the Webinar of the International Childhood Cancer Cohort Consortium which will be hosted on February 22 at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia.