Regional Chapters and Local Groups
ISEE members have set up local groups in a number of regions, and where they are large enough they can be formally recognized as ISEE regional chapters. ISEE encourages the formation of these regional groups to provide a regional network of scientists involved in environmental epidemiology and to provide a way for potential members to join ISEE. You can contact the Secretariat for guidance on how to do this. Currently ISEE has local groups and chapters in the following areas. To find out about their activities, contact the local representatives listed for each.
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Caucasus
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Central and Eastern Europe
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Latin America and the Caribbean
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Eastern Mediterranean
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South Asia
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East Asia
Request for Proposals from Regional Chapters and Local Groups
Caucasus
The ISEE Caucasus Chapter was formed in 2001. The chapter has received two grants from the Open Society Institute (OSI) Assistance Foundation/Azerbaijan Public Health/Medical Program. In 2002-2003 the chapter translated the WHO textbook Environmental Epidemiology: Textbook on Study Methods and Public Health Applications into Azeri and organized two trainings. The project was supported by OSI-Azerbaijan in collaboration with WHO/Azerbaijan and Khazar University. The translated textbooks were distributed to training and round-table participants and to various organizations' libraries. The translated book is the first textbook on epidemiology in Azeri; the last Azeri book on epidemiology was published in 1954.
In 2004 the Chapter translated and published three WHO editions in Azeri: Cancer Pain Relief and Palliative Care; Cancer Pain Relief and Palliative Care in Children, and Safe Abortion: Technical and Policy Guidance for Health Systems.. The books were provided to the Ministry of Health of Azerbaijan. The Director-General of the World Health Organization granted translation rights for these editions in the Azeri language to the Caucasus Chapter.
The Chair has been involved in developing a module and organization of courses in Modern Epidemiology in the new School of Public Health in Azerbaijan. In 2004 the British Medical Association/British Medical Journal (BMA/BMJ) Information Fund provided books to the ISEE Caucasus chapter to establish a medical library, which is temporarily housed in the Khazar University. The Chapter invites ISEE members and others to send journals and books as gifts to enlarge the Caucasus chapter library.
If you have material to donate to the library, or for more information about the Chapter, please contact:
Samaya Ismayilova
Chair, ISEE Caucasus Chapter
Neftchilar Campus, Khazar University
11, Mehseti str.
Baku AZ 1096, Azerbaijan
Phone: 994 12 4 21 79 27; Fax: 994 12 4 98 9379
Email: isee_caucasus@yahoo.com
Central and Eastern Europe
Visit the chapter website: http://isee.zuova.cz/
2008 International Conference and Meeting of the Central and Eastern European Chapter (CEEC ISEE), October 19-22, 2008
For further information about the chapter, please contact:
Hana Slachtova, MA
President, ISEE Central and Eastern European Chapter
Head, Unit of Health Monitoring
Institute of Public Health
Partyzanske Nam. 7
70200 Ostrava, Czech Republic
Phone: +420-596200447; Fax: +420-596118161
Email: hana.slachtova@zuova.cz
Latin America and the Caribbean
See Chapter Report, September 2000
The Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Chapter was organized in 1991 with the mission of congregating Latin-American investigators who are members of ISEE. It was the joint effort of the Chapter that promoted the annual meeting of the ISEE in 1992 in Cuernavaca, Mexico, as well as other activities in the region.
The main aims of the LAC Chapter are to identify individuals and groups working in environmental health in the region; to facilitate transfer of information and communications between environmental epidemiologists in the region; to facilitate the establishment of collaborative networks among the different centers in the region; and to interact with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in order to contact and support academic and governmental institutions to establish an agenda of training in specific methodologies.
For further information, please contact:
Nelson Gouveia, PhD
Acting Chair, ISEE Latin America and Caribbean Chapter
Departamento de Medicina Preventiva
Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo,
São Paulo, Brazil
Fax: 55 11 280 7891
Email: ngouveia@usp.br
Eastern Mediterranean
For further information, please contact:
Ziad Abdeen, PhD, MPH
Co-Chair, ISEE Eastern Mediterranean Chapter
Al-Quds Nutrition and Health Research Institute
Faculty of Medicine, Al-Quds University
Abu Dies, West Bank
P.O. Box 20760, Jerusalem, Israel
Department of Public Health Sciences
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Toronto, ONT Canada M5S 1A8
Phone: 972-2-6289798; Fax: 972-2-6289849
Email: zabdeen@planet.eduTamar Berman, MSc
Co-Chair, ISEE Eastern Mediterranean Chapter
School of Pharmacy
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel
Phone: 972-2-5635224
Email: tamar.berman@mail.huji.ac.il
South Asia
The South Asian Regional Chapter of the ISEE was officially formed by epidemiologists from across South Asia, meeting at the Better Air Quality conference in Agra on December 6, 2004. Initial support for chapter formation was provided by the Health Effects Institute's Public Health and Air Pollution in Asia (PAPA) program as part of its regional capacity-building efforts.
The founding members are committed to work on a range of environmental risk factors in addition to outdoor air pollution, including indoor air pollution, arsenic in drinking water, and lack of clean water and sanitation. The chapter will facilitate the building of a strong network of professionals from across the region , enabling them to draw on international support and take the lead in the region to tackle these issues. A key priority will be to establish a strong network of regional members and strengthen the linkages with the current ISEE membership. Plans include organizing a symposium at the 2005 ISEE annual conference, expanding to a joint ISEE/ISEA regional chapter, creating a message board for employment and capacity-building/training opportunities, and organizing a regional conference. Chapter members are currently compiling a review of the health risks of natural disasters for health care workers in tsunami-affected areas.
South Asian Regional Chapter Constitution
Chapter Newsletter - July 2006For further information, please contact:
Sumi Mehta, MPH, PhD
Co-Chair, ISEE South Asia Chapter
Health Effects Institute
Charlestown Navy Yard, 120 Second Avenue
Boston MA USA 02129
Fax: 617-886-9335
Email: smehta@healtheffects.orgArin Basu, MD, MPH, DBI, DIH
Co-Chair, ISEE South Asia Chapter
Fogarty International Training Program in Environmental Health in India
Guru Tegh Bahadur Medical Center
11, DL Khan Road
Kolkata 700027 West Bengal, India
Email: arin99@rediffmail.com
East Asia
Visit the chapter web site: http://www.isee-eac.tw
Second East Asia Chapter Regional Conference:
"Opportunities and Challenges of Environmental Health in Asia"
April 17-19, 2008, Jeju, Korea
For further information about the chapter, please contact:
Y. Leon Guo, MD, MPH, PhD
Environmental and Occupational Medicine
National Taiwan University (NTU) and NTU Hospital
Rm 339, 17 Syujhou Road
Taipei 100, Taiwan
Phone: +886 2-3322-8216; Fax: +886 2-3322-8214
Email: leonguo@ntu.edu.twHow-Ran Guo, MD, ScD
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
National Cheng Kung University
138 Sheng-Li Road
Tainan 70428, Taiwan
Fax: +886 6 274 3748
Email: hrguo@mail.ncku.edu.tw
Regional Chapters