News

The Third Conference organized by the “Bepi Ferro” asbestos victims Foundation, that took place in Padova on December, 4, aimed to examine progresses made in identification, early lung cancer diagnosis and health surveillance of former asbestos workers (...)

"Exposure to asbestos and PCBs in American schools" seminar by Sarah Gibson will be held in Grugliasco on November, 3, 2014 (...)

Slides of the workshop "Programma regionale di screening per il cervicocarcinoma Prevenzione Serena", that took place in Turin on November, 3, 2014, are now available online (...)

The meeting "I programmi di screening  oncologico della regione Toscana: situazione attuale e propsoettive" took place in Florence on December, 19 (...)

Applications for the "Master Universitario di II Livello in Epidemiologia 2015-2016", University of Turin, are still open. Deadline for submission is on Thursday November 20, 2014 (...)

XXXVIII Congress of the Italian Association of Epidemiology (IAE) will take place in Naples, November 5-7, 2014 (...)

The Annual Report 2013 on the cancer screening programs of Piedmont Region "Prevenzione Serena" has already been published. The report presents the results of the 2012 activity for breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screening and describes some issues relating to organization, quality, innovation and communication. 

The educational material of the course "HPV testing as a primary screening test", addressed to midwives involved in the cervical cancer screening programme "Prevenzione Serena", is available online (...)

The workshop "The nine months that change your life" took place in Turin, October 28th 2014, offering a unique occasion to discuss research lines in life-course epidemiology (...)

Last May the World Health Organization designated the Piedmont Reference Center for Epidemiology and Cancer Prevention as Collaborating Centre for early detection and screening of cancer (...)

Estimates from the World Health Organization show a continuous increase of respiratory diseases. For this reason, the scientific societies of Medical Statistics and Clinical Epidemiology, Pulmonology, Epidemiology, Allergology and Pediatrics have jointly organized the Workshop “Large scale population-based surveys on respiratory health in Italy and Europe” to be held on 23rd-24th October in Verona (...)

The event "Asbestos: a challenge to win!" will be organized by the Institute for Cancer Study and Prevention and will take place in Florence on Septembre 29, 2014 (...)

The European Statistical Forum 2014 will take place in Brussels on November 17, 2014. Focus will be on current status of application of Bayesian Methods in drug development (...)

Wednesday 18 June, the workshop "Healthcare: not just costs" took place in Turin at the Piedmont Economic and Social Research Institute (IRES).

A handbook, with practical information for health operators, has been presented during the conference “Working together to promote smoke-free environments” (Turin, May 27). 

Friday 6 June the workshop “Molecular Epidemiologic Studies of Colorectal Cancer” by Marc Gunter (School of Public Health, Imperial College, London) took place in Turin at the Human Genetics Foundation.

Monday 9 June, took place in Novara, at the Department of Translational Medicine, the seminar “Assessment of cervical cancer control in Rwanda and Bhutan" by Iacopo Baussano (IARC LIONE).

Friday 23 May took place in Novara, at the Department of Translational Medicine, the conference “Methods for the analysis of the exposure-time-response relationship in epidemiology" by Francesco Barone Adesi (Division of Population Health Sciences and Education St George's, University of London).