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Table 1 JECS international symposia

From: Japan Environment and Children’s Study: backgrounds, activities, and future directions in global perspectives

Conference title (date)

Venue

Co-sponsor

Country or organization of speakers/panelists

Titles of sessions/presentations

Japan Environment and Children’s Study (JECS) Workshop on International Linkage

(2–3 Feb. 2011/workshop was held for researchers)

Tokyo

 

Japan

Denmark

Korea

United States of America

Session 1: planning large-scale birth cohort studies (five speakers)

  

Japan

United States of America

Session 2: environmental exposure assessment in cohort studies (two speakers)

  

Japan

United States of America

Session 3: for what unexpected events must one prepare in site operations? (four speakers)

  

Japan

Session 4: follow-up activities in birth cohort studies (one speaker)

  

Japan

Session 5: outcome and measurements (one speaker)

  

Japan

Session 6: expectation for birth cohort studies (one speaker)

  

Australia

WHO

UNEP

Session 7: international liaison of national cohort studies (three speakers)

JECS International Symposium

(4 Feb. 2011/open to the general public)

Tokyo

 

Japan

Outline of Japan Environment and Children’s Study focusing on the effects of environmental chemicals

  

Denmark

The Danish National Birth Cohort

  

Korea

Mothers and Children’s Environmental Health Study

  

United States of America

The National Children’s Study

  

WHO

Coordinating and harmonizing long-term cohort studies of children’s environmental health

  

UNEP

An evaluation of environmental health risks and risk management strategies among children in developing countries

  

International Childhood Cancer Cohort Consortium (I4C), Australia

International Childhood Cancer Cohort Consortium initiative

  

Japan

International linkage in JECS

JECS International Symposium in Kitakyushu, Japan

(28 Feb. 2012)

Kitakyushu

University of Occupational and Environmental Health

Japan

Japan Environment and Children’s Study

  

United States of America

National Children’s Study USA

  

Germany

Concept of a birth cohort study as contribution to health-related environmental monitoring in Germany

  

WHO

Coordination and harmonization of the next generation of large-scale birth cohorts

  

Japan

Report from WHO Working Group for Coordination of the Next Generation of Large-scale Birth Cohorts

  

Japan

Progress in Japan Environment and Children’s Study

  

Japan

Current progress of the “Hokkaido Cohort Studies on Environment and Children: congenital abnormality, development, and allergy”

  

Japan

A study of child development in northeast Japan

  

Japan

Pilot studies for JECS

  

Japan

Expectations for JECS

JECS International Symposium, Nagoya, Japan

(15 Nov. 2013)

Nagoya

Nagoya City University

Japan

Background to international linkage

  

United States of America

U.S. National Children’s Study

  

Germany

German activities

  

China

Shanghai Birth Cohort

  

French

French National Birth Cohort

  

United States of America

Report from the working group related to the international collaboration in large-scale birth cohort studies

  

Japan

Roadmap of Japan Environment and Children’s Study (JECS) for the future

  

Japan

What has been proved and what will be proved in JECS

  

Japan

United States of America

Expectations for JECS (four speakers)

Fourth JECS International Symposium

(15 Dec. 2015)

Tokyo

Chiba University

WHO

Recent global environmental change and children’s health

  

Japan

Preliminary results of the Japan Environment and Children’s Study (JECS)

  

Norway

The Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study

  

Denmark

An overview of the Danish National Birth Cohort

  

Japan

Current status of birth cohort studies in Asia

  

Norway

Denmark

United States of America

Japan

Panel discussion: Promoting birth cohort studies: from the perspective of information dissemination (four panelists)