Program

General Remarks

This meeting is organized as an interactive, structured process in order to find
a consensus for core competencies, but with ample room for exchange and discussions. Attendance is restricted to 100 participants, with a goal of achieving broad diversity in terms of career stage (academic epidemiologists, advanced
PhD students and PostDocs), teaching experience, geography and subfields
of epidemiology. Together, participants will work towards a consensus on core competencies for epidemiologists that we expect to be important for our current
and future roles in health research. These core competencies would also be the foundation of curricula to be taught in graduate programs.

Starting from a preliminary set of core competencies that were elaborated during
an earlier meeting this year, we will discuss current and future opportunities and challenges in our field (e.g., students having more diverse professional backgrounds, big data, personalized health, digitalization, etc.). Against the background of
these developments, we will identify the need for refining or adding further core competencies. Finally, we will explore how these novel core competencies may
be integrated into current curricula and brainstorm on innovative teaching methods.

AIMS OF THE MEETING

1. To identify and agree on traditional and “emerging” core competencies for epidemiologists
2. To discuss how curricula for MSc and PhD programs in
   epidemiology could be adapted to help students acquire traditional and “emerging” core competencies
3. To have 1-2 papers on the above to share the results of the conference with the community of epidemiologists
4. To agree on how to proceed after the conference
   (i.e. organize exchange among schools, follow-up meeting, papers)

Tuesday, 26 June 2018

Wednesday, 27 June 2018