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2016 Congress Symposia

A Good Gene-Environment Interaction is Hard to Find: New Methods for GxE Discovery
Session Chairs: Brandon Pierce and Maria Argos

Agent-Based Models and the G-Formula: Comparable Approaches for Evaluating Population Intervention Effects?
Session Chairs: Magdalena Cerda and Brandon Marshall

Causal parameters without corresponding experiments: powerful abstractions or pitiful distractions?
Session Chair: Ian Shrier
Sponsored By: Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) and EPIDEMIOLOGY

A Critical Period? Prenatal Exposures and Adult Health
Session Chairs: Samantha Parker and Martha Werler
Sponsored By: Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research (SPER)

Controversies in Vitamin D Research: Clinical and Methodological Considerations
Session Chairs: Sunni Mumford and Lisa Bodnar

Disaster Resilience – Lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
Session Chair: Ichiro Kawachi

Emerging Environmental Epidemiology Issues Across the Americas
Session Chairs: Erik Svendsen and Francine Laden
Sponsored By: International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE)

Epidemiologic  Inference with Mechanistic Models. Merging the ‘Why’ With the ‘How’
Session Chairs: Justin Lessler and Arijit Nandi

Epidemiologic Methods for Implementation Science: From Patients to Policies
Session Chair: Daniel Westreich
Sponsored By: American Journal of Epidemiology (AJE)

Epidemiological Research on Child Mental Health in Latin-America: Advances Challenges and New Perspectives
Session Chairs: Alexandra Restrepo and Ezra Susser
Sponsored By: Autism Speaks

Epidemiology Across the Americas: Connecting Latin American, Caribbean, and North American Epidemiologists to Advance Epidemiological Thinking, Practice, and Health Equity — A Panel Discussion
Session Chairs: Nancy Krieger, Howell Sasser, and Rita Barata
Sponsored By: American Public Health Association, Epidemiology Section (APHA-Epi) and 
International Epidemiological Association (IEA)

Ethics Big Data and Computing in Epidemiology and Public Health
Session Chairs: Jennifer Salerno and Shalini Selvarajah

Extending the Reach and Relevance of Epidemiology Through Implementation Science
Session Chairs: Gila Neta and Ross Brownson
Sponsored By: American College of Epidemiology (ACE)

Fertility Treatments and Long-Term Health: What We Know and What We Wish We Knew
Session Chairs: Dmitry Kissin and Germaine Buck Louis

Fresh perspectives: Teaching epidemiologic methods from the perspective of your teaching assistants (TAs)
Session Chairs: Sonja Swanson and Ryan Seals

Health Equity in Latin America
Session Chairs: Maria Milla and Hermes Florez
Sponsored By: International Epidemiological Association (IEA)

Healthy Workers and Healthy Users: Comparing Approaches to Mitigate Confounding and Selection Bias in Occupational and Pharmaco-Epidemiology
Session Chair: Jennifer Lund
Sponsored By: International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE)

Causal Estimation of Direct and Indirect Effects in Studies With Clustering or Social Network Features
Session Chair: Donna Spiegelman

Meeting in the Middle: Systems Science and Causal Inference Models
Session Chairs: Eric Lofgren and Jess Edwards

Moving Beyond Numbers: How Qualitative Data Can Complement Your Quantitative Study
Session Chairs: Jessica Chubak and Kathleen Wirth

Novel Approaches for Bio-social Integration in Epidemiologic Studies
Session Chairs: Allison Aiello and Lydia Feinstein

Precision Medicine and Causal Inference – Beyond the Average Treatment Effect
Session Chair: Catherine Lesko

Research Strategy for Chronic Diseases Epidemiology in Latin American and Caribbean Countries
Session Chairs: Paulo Lotufo and Matias Irarrazaval

Working at the Nexus of Research and Policy: The International Joint Policy Committee of the Societies of Epidemiology
Session Chairs: Colin Soskolne and Stanley Weiss
Sponsored By: International Joint Policy Committee of the Societies of Epidemiology (IJPC-SE)