Aims
The objectives of the IEA are to:
- Promote the use of epidemiology and its application to the solution of health problems.
- Encourage the development of epidemiological methods and improvement in these methods.
- Promote the communication of epidemiological methods and findings amongst epidemiologists throughout the world as well as amongst all others concerned with health.
- Co-operate with both national and international organisations which are concerned with the promotion of health in the application of epidemiological methods in the solution of problems.
- Improve the dissemination of epidemiological findings nationally and internationally.
- Improve the recruitment, education and training of epidemiologists.
These objectives are achieved through networking professionals working in the field of epidemiology through different means, including its website: www.IEAweb.org ; holding national, regional and international scientific meetings and congresses, as well as individual contacts between professional members. These have guided IEA’s activities over the years.
A determined effort was made in this decade to develop regional activities and to strengthen IEA links and co-operation with the WHO.
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