2. About ISEE ISEE is an international organization with members from more than 50 countries and regional chapters and local groups in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Mediterranean, Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, South Asia, and East Asia. Topics addressed by ISEE members include environmental exposures (e.g. air pollution, hazardous waste, metals, pesticides, radiation), health effects (e.g. cancer, cardiovascular disease, neurologic effects, reproductive effects), methodology (e.g. biomarkers, ecologic investigations, experimental design, exposure/dose assessment, meta-analysis, risk assessment, statistics), environment-gene interactions, and ethics and law.

3. Benefits of Membership If you join ISEE, you will meet others who share an interest in health and the environment and receive: Subscription to our official journal, Epidemiology, including online access to full text Directory of all ISEE members Early notice of annual meetings Reduced rate registration at annual meetings Special subscription rates for the NIEHS Journal Environmental Health Perspectives

4. ISEE's Mission The International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) provides a forum for the discussion of problems unique to the study of health and the environment. With membership open to environmental epidemiologists and other scientists worldwide, ISEE provides a variety of forums for discussions, critical reviews, collaborations and education on issues of environmental exposures and their human health effects. These include annual meetings, newsletters, workshops and liaisons with academic, governmental, inter-governmental, non-profit and business institutions.

5. Regional Chapters and Local Groups ISEE members have set up local groups in a number of regions, and where they are large enough they can be formally recognized as ISEE regional chapters. ISEE encourages the formation of these regional groups to provide a regional network of scientists involved in environmental epidemiology and to provide a way for potential members to join ISEE. You can contact the Secretariat for guidance on how to do this. Currently ISEE has local groups and chapters in the following areas. To find out about their activities, contact the local representatives listed for each. Caucasus Central and Eastern Europe Latin America and the Caribbean Eastern Mediterranean South Asia East Asia

7. Offers: 1/ Reduced membership fees for members from developing countries (those whose economies are listed by the World Bank as "Low income," "Lower Middle Income," or "Upper Middle Income" in the World Development Report from the previous year) 2/ Reduced registration fees for member's participation in the annual ISEE conferences 3/ Participation in the conferences being organized by the ISEE CEE Chapter within Europe

8. 4/ Possibility of publication in English: Central European Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine http://www.fjokk.hu/cejoem/files/ e-mail: cejoem-editor@fjokk.hu Central European Journal of Public Health http://www.tigis.cz/cejp/ e-mail: jwagner@szu.cz

9. More information on the ISEE web-site: Your suggestions of future activities of the CEE Chapter are welcomed. Please use the following e-mail addresses: hana.slachtova@zuova.cz (current president of the CEE Chapter) dagmar.skybova@zuova.cz (secretary of the CEE Chapter) http://www.iseepi.org/

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