The Membership
In the earlier years of the IEA, British and North American members were in the majority, mainly because the Association had its origins in the UK and USA. The Council of the Association has always been very conscious of this tendency and made active efforts to broaden the representativeness of the Association by encouraging members to nominate epidemiologists from other countries. Nowadays, membership is growing in the Association with over 2,000 current members from around the world. Current membership categories include:
- Ordinary Members (fully paid up members)
- Senior Members (eligible for 50% discount of annual membership)
- Student Members (eligible for 50% discount of annual membership)
- Joint Members (with national epidemiological associations)
- Sponsored Members
- Honorary Members
The IEA has recently introduced a scheme of joint membership with various national epidemiological societies. Members of participating national societies join IEA at 30% of the usual rate and have all of the benefits of regular IEA membership, except that they receive the e-version of the IJE only. Joint membership have established with the following associations:
| Name of Association | |
|---|---|
| Africa | |
| 1 | Epidemiological Society of Nigeria (EPiSON) |
| Eastern Mediterranean | |
| 2 | Saudi Epidemiological Association (SEA) |
| 3 | Lebanese Epidemiological Association (LEA) |
| 4 | Iranian Epidemiological Association (IrEA) |
| Europe | |
| 5 | Finnish Epidemiological Society (FES) |
| 6 | German Society for Epidemiology (DGEpi) |
| 7 | Spanish Society of Epidemiology (SSE) |
| 8 | Netherlands Epidemiological Society (VvE) |
| Latin America & Caribbean | |
| 10 | The Brazilian Association of Post-Graduation in Collective Health (ABRASCO) |
| North America | |
| 11 | Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) |
| South East Asia | |
| 12 | Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine (IAPSM) |
| 13 | Indian Society for Medical Statistics (ISMS) |
| 14 | Indian Public Health Association (IPHA) |
| Western Pacific | |
| 15 | Australasian Epidemiological Association (AEA) |
| 16 | Japan Epidemiological Association (JEA) |
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