Conferences
ISEE sponsors an annual scientific conference each year, generally in August or September. The scientific program includes plenary sessions, symposia, and poster and oral presentations of accepted abstracts. The annual John Goldsmith Award for Outstanding Contributions to Environmental Epidemiology is awarded and the awardee delivers the John Goldsmith lecture. Awards for best abstract by a student and best abstract by a young investigator are also made. A General Members meeting is held during the conference to communicate with the general membership about the Society's financial status, policy decisions, future meeting venues, and other matters of relevance to the Society and its members.
On these pages you will find information on future annual conferences, local meetings organized or co-sponsored by ISEE, and past annual conferences (with access to abstracts for recent past conferences).
Annual conferences are organized by local organizing committees after a process of selection between competing proposals *. In deciding on venues ISEE reflects the geographic spread of our membership by ensuring that the location varies from year to year. ISEE members interested in offering to host a future annual conferences should consult the guidance in the Members' section of the ISEE web site.
Carbon Neutral Conferencing
The members of ISEE have expressed enthusiasm for taking responsibility for the overall environmental footprint of our conferences by adopting measures to offset the impact of our travel and conference related activities by contributing to sustainable energy projects. The impacts of global climate change are now a common topic of scientific discourse at ISEE conferences, which provide a superb platform for hundreds of scientists to discuss health and other impacts of climate change. For the next ISEE conference we have provided links to a few simple websites that allow travelers to calculate the CO2 emissions associated with their air travel and then purchase credits that offset these emissions. We encourage you to join other ISEE members in becoming part of the solution.
http://www.betterworldclub.com/travel/neutral.htm
http://www.cdmgoldstandard.org/
*Note: Conference organizing companies and convention bureaus are discouraged from proposing to host or organize ISEE conferences. The initiative to host a conference comes only from ISEE members.