The World Congress of Epidemiology (WCE)
With few exceptions, the scientific meetings of the Association have been held every three years since 1957 in different locations around the world. At the first Council Meeting held in Montreal 17–18 August 2002, it was agreed that all meetings formerly entitled International Scientific Meeting would henceforth be called World Congress of Epidemiology (WCE), with a continued sequence of numbering. Here is a list of the WCE held since 1957:
- I Noordwijk, Netherlands, September 1957
- II Cali, Colombia, August 1959
- III Korcula, Yugoslavia, August 1961
- IV Princeton, USA, August 1964
- V Primosten, Yugoslavia, August 1968
- VI Primosten, Yugoslavia, August 1971
- VII Brighton, England, August 1974
- VIII San Juan, Puerto Rico, September 1977
- IX Edinburgh, Scotland, August 1981
- X Vancouver, Canada, August 1984
- XI Helsinki, Finland, August 1987
- XII Los Angeles, USA, August 1990
- XIII Sydney, Australia, September 1993
- XIV Nagoya, Japan, August 1996
- XV Florence, Italy, August 1999
- XVI Montreal, Canada, August 2002
- XVII Bangkok, Thailand, August 2005
- XVIII Porto Alegre, Brazil, September 2008
- XIX Edinburgh, Scotland, August 2011
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