To celebrate the 30th year of the European Educational Programme in Epidemiology (EEPE) in 2017, we established the Inaugural Rodolfo Saracci lecture Maria Carolina Borges, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, “Challenges to epidemiology in a world of imperfect evidence, polarisation, misinterpretation, and conflicts of interest” which has now become an annual event.
The 2018 lecture will be Olof Akre, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, “Evaluating the outcome of surgery: the reflections of an epidemiologist turning surgeon” delivered on 6th July, the final day of the 2018 European Educational Programme in Epidemiology course in Florence, Italy. The Saracci lecturer will also particate in the final course dinner and celebration on the Thursday evening (5th July 2018).
About the Annual Rodolfo Saracci Lecture
The Saracci lecture is delivered by an early or mid-career researcher, who talks about a field in which (s)he is now actively working. It is not intended as a ‘life time career award’. The lecture can cover any topic in epidemiology, but we give preference to ‘big picture’ overview talks. These could be on a particular area of substantive research, on epidemiological methods, or on epidemiology and its links with public health.
The call is open to anyone working in the field, but we would particularly like to see applications from former students of the EEPE.
Applicants can be self-nominated or nominated by a current or former member of the EEPE faculty, and the nomination should involve: (i) a covering letter outlining the reasons for the nomination (including the year that the applicant attended the EEPE); (ii) brief cv (two pages plus one page of selected publications); and (iii) a one-page maximum abstract of the proposed talk.
EEPE covers travel and accommodation expenses.
The EEPE course was established in 1988 by Rodolfo Saracci, Franco Merletti, Dimitrios Trichopoulos and Jorn Olsen. Rodolfo Saracci served as the Course Director for the first 25 years of the course, and subsequently, the course has been directed by Matthias Egger, Manolis Kogevinas, and currently by Lorenzo Richiardi and Neil Pearce.
As well as his key role in the EEPE, Rodolfo Saracci has played a leading role in epidemiology internationally for many decades, including major contributions to the research work of the International Agency of Research on Cancer, and the International Epidemiological Association (for which he was president during 1996-1999).