SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
The symposium will consist of 6 plenaries, 20 mini symposia and paper sessions and 9 poster sessions.

EPICOH 2004 will focus on emerging issues in occupational epidemiology and its role in preventing occupational disease and injury. This will include new methodological techniques as well as new and traditional topic areas, such as:
• Disease and injury surveillance
• Intervention studies
• Analytical study designs
• Exposure assessment
• Data analysis techniques
• Biomarkers
• Gene/environment interactions
• Mortality studies
• Work injuries
• Cancer
• Musculoskeletal disorders
• Veteran epidemiology
• Reproductive disorders
• Respiratory diseases
• Skin diseases
• Precarious employment
• Stress-related disorders

Keynote speakers who have committed to present at the 17th International Symposium on Epidemiology in Occupational Health include:

Dr Harvey Checkoway, School of Public Health & Community Medicine, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, USA

DR Philippa Gander, Sleep/Wake Research Centre, Research School of Public Health, University of Massey, New Zealand

DR Hans Kromhout, Exposure Assessment & Occupational Hygiene, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

DR Rene Loewenson, Training
and Research Support Centre (TARSC), Zimbabwe

DR Bill (AW) Musk, Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Group, School of Population Health, University Of Western Australia, Australia