海外：Dr Ester Villalonga Olives（Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, University of Maryland, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen）

日本：菊池宏幸（東京医科大学）、桑原恵介（帝京大学大学院公衆衛生学研究科）

Early Career Epidemiologists (ECE) play important role for accumulation of evidence in epidemiology as well as the development of epidemiology. The Executive Council of the IEA has affirmed its support of an international ECE group within the IEA structure in 2011 for the purpose of facilitating communication, promoting development of epidemiological methods and setting up network to enhance scientific collaboration. On the other hand, there are local ECE groups in the regions and/or countries. However, the activities conducted by the ECE groups have not been shared. There would be plenty of room for improvement in the ECE groups activity.

The aim of the session is to clarify the requirement to encourage the activity of ECE groups. Current status of ECE activities in each group will be presented in the first part of the session. What is required to promote ECE activities will be discussed among small groups of participants in the second part of the session. The result of the discussion will be summarized and presented. The discussion of the session is expected to encourage ECE activities and to facilitate communication among ECEs in the world.