Table 1.
JECS international symposia
| 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) |