8:30-8:45 Welcome – Terry Fontham, Ed Trapido

8:45-10:15 Opening forum: Epidemiology and Advocacy – Michael Bracken, chair

• Introduction. Michael Bracken, Yale University – (5 minutes)
• Who Knows What I Believe? Or how advocating from science can be distorted by those who do not like the findings Carol Hogue, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory Univ. (12 minutes)
• The two activisms: truth telling and advocacy. Raymond Neutra, California Dept of Health (12 minutes)
• "How I became both a breast cancer activist and epidemiologist and lived to tell the tale" Kay Dickersin, Professor of Epidemiology, Brown University (12 minutes)
• Drug Safety in America: A Cause in Need of Advocacy. David Graham, FDA (12 minutes)
• Audience participation/responses from panelists (25 minutes)
• Closing comments from each panel member (~2 minutes each)
• Closing comments from the chair (~2 minutes)

10:15:10-30 Break

10:30-12:30 Plenary I: Research in the Public Eye: The Long Island Breast Cancer Study and research on Gulf War Illness – Deborah Winn and Irene Hall, co-chairs

• Researchers, the advocacy community, and the public: Insights from the study of breast cancer and the environment on Long Island. Marilie Gammon– UNC Chapel Hill (20 minutes)
• The challenges of uncovering causes of high breast cancer rates in geographic regions: The Long Island Breast Cancer Study project. Deborah Winn – NCI (20 minutes)
• Audience participation/responses from speakers (20 minutes)
• Gulf War Illness Research: Genesis and Evolution. Han Kang – Dept of Veterans’ Affairs (20 minutes)
• Gulf War Veteran Illnesses: After Ten years and a Billion Dollars What Have We Learned? Gregory Gray – University of Iowa (20 minutes)
• Audience participation/responses from speakers (20 minutes)

12:30-1:45 Buffet lunch – Luncheon Roundtables

• Epidemiology and Advocacy – Perspective from non-Profit Organizations (Faith Davis, moderator)
• Consortium epidemiology and the role of the junior investigators (Ed Trapido, moderator)

Audience participation/responses from speakers (20 minutes)

3:30-3:45 break

3:45-4:15 ACE business meeting

4:30-6:00 Poster Session (organized by the Publications Committee)

6:00-7:00 Meet the editors (Chair, tbd by the Publications Committee)

7:30-8:30 Breakfast roundtables (Sandra Sulsky, organizer)

• Stephen Coughlin – Centers for Disease Control – GLBT1 Health Advocacy.
• Rachael Enriquez, Vanderbilt University, Graphical presentation of data – tips, techniques, & pitfalls.
• Laura Sims, UNC Greensboro, The politics of fat – food and nutrition policy in the America.
• Olivia Carter-Pokras – University of Maryland - The Role of
  Epidemiologists in Cultural Competency Training for Medical Students.
• Jay Fowke – Vanderbilt University, Implications of identifying genetic markers for future disease.
• Vivian Chen - The use of registries in epidemiological studies.
• Susan Curry – Issues in smoking prevention and advocacy.
• [pending David Graham or Michael Bracken] – Cox II inhibitors – implications for the pharmaceutical industry, FDA, and the public.
• [pending Jess Krauss] – UCLA – Changing nature of injury epidemiology.
• [pending Bob Hiatt] – Epidemiology in a difficult political environment.
  

8:30-8:45 Presidential Address (Martha Linet)

8:45-9:30 Special awards presentations (Roger Bernier, moderator)

• Student prize paper (20 minutes)
• Contributions to Applied Epidemiology Award Winner (20 minutes)

9:30-11:00 Plenary III: Public Health and Preparedness: Are We Ready for the Pandemic – Betsy Foxman, Chair

11:00-11:20 Break

11:20-12:30 Debate (Carlos Camargo/Sandra Sulsky, organizers)

Topic: Money Talks and other Forces that Shape Scientific Inquiry

12:45 to 2:00 Awards Banquet/Luncheon (Roger Bernier, moderator)

Awarding of poster prizes