Executive Summary - Position Statement on Asbestos (2012) (English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish)

The INEP Position Statement on Asbestos: A Long-Overdue Appeal by Epidemiologists to Ban Asbestos Worldwide and End Related Global Environmental Injustice. Al-Delaimy, Wael, MD, PhD, Editorial in Environmental Health Perspectives, 121(5): A144-5, May 2013.

Soskolne CL, Al-Delaimy WK, Burns K, Finch MR, Gaudino JA Jr, Lanphear B, Oremus M, Phillips L, Ruff K, Weiss SH, Wing S. Letter in response to the BMJ Editorial, Medical journals and industry ties, November 28, 2014, published on-line as a "rapid response" on December 13, 2014.

Sim FM, Davis A, Franco E, Lanphear B, Phillips L, Soskolne CL, Letter in response to the BMJ Editorial, Medical journals and industry ties, November 28, 2014, published on-line as a "rapid response" on 11 January 2015.

Kathleen Ruff (INEP Expert Advisor) published, Scientific journals and conflict of interest disclosure: what progress has been made? in Environmental Health. The article made it to the top 10 of 2015 articles read in Environmental Health.

IJPC-SE Working Group (WG) on Conflict-of-Interest and Disclosure [COI&D] (2015)

Challenges to the census: international trends and a need to consider public health benefits was published in the Journal of the Royal Society for Public Health, Public Health, October, 2017; 151:87-97. The article was selected as the Editors' Choice article. The full citation is: Wilson RT, Hasanali SH, Sheikh M, Cramer S, Weinberg G, Firth A, Weiss SH, Soskolne CL. Challenges to the census: international trends and a need to consider public health benefits. Public Health. 2017 Oct; 151:87-97. MID: 28759883. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2017.05.015. Epub 2017 Jul 29.r

Kathleen Ruff, INEP Expert Adviser, attended the inter-sessional meeting of the UNFCCC from May 8 to 18, 2017 in Bonn, Germany. In the Opinion piece, Climate change—UN fails to address industry influence, published by the BMJ on July 21 2017

Colin Soskolne published, Addressing the problem of COI and moneyed influence in public health, in "The Role of Integrity in the Governance of the Commons: Governance, Ecology, Law, Ethics" (Editors: Westra, L., Gray, J., and Gottwald, F-T.) by Springer International Publishing AG 2017; pp.205-213.

The Editorial, The Role of Epidemiology in Firearm Violence Prevention: A Policy Brief was published in the International Journal of Epidemiology on April 27, 2018. Lead authors Amy B Davis, James A Gaudino, Colin L Soskolne, and Wael K Al-Delaimy.

The American Academy of Pediatrics announced its endorsement in the August 2018 issue of the journal, Pediatrics. The Policy Brief was endorsed by 18 INEP member organizations.

A Policy Brief: Climate Change and Epidemiology was published as a joint endeavor between INEP and the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) in Epidemiology, 30(1), January 2019. Lead authors, Wael Al-Delaimy and Michal Krzyzanowski. Its predecessor, the INEP Policy Brief on Climate Change and Epidemiology was endorsed by 14 INEP member organizations.

Gender Equity in Epidemiology: A Policy Brief (2019) was published in Annals of Epidemiology, the journal of the American College of Epidemiology (ACE). Lead authors, Melinda C. Aldrich (ACE), Anne E. Cust (AEA), and Camille Raynes-Greenow (AEA). Its predecessor is INEP Policy Brief Series: Gender Equity in Epidemiology, endorsed by ten member organizations.

INEP Position Statement: Conflict-of-Interest and Disclosure in Epidemiology, Adopted 16 September 2020, Publicly Released 05 Jan 2021 (rev 17 Mar 2021).

26 January 2021 - ETHICS & PHILOSOPHY COMMITTEE, INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY (ISEE) INEP Position Statement: CONFLICT OF INTEREST AND DISCLOSURE IN EPIDEMIOLOGY, COLIN L. SOSKOLNE, PhD, PROFESSOR EMERITUS, UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA, EDMONTON, CANADA, and JANE C. CALDWELL, PhD, U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (RETIRED), DURHAM NC, USA, ZOOM WEBINAR SLIDES (PDF).

25 February 2021 - Colin L. Soskolne in collaboration with Jane C. Caldwell delivered a webinar, INEP's Position Statement on Conflict-of-Interest and Disclosure in Epidemiology, to the Science Response Network, University of California, San Francisco, Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment. ZOOM WEBINAR SLIDES (PDF).

A 2021 article published in the International Journal of Epidemiology on behalf of INEP called for epidemiological literacy as an ability that is essential for public dialogue and policy decisions for health protection measures and their implementation in communities.

The role of epidemiologists in communicating SARS-CoV-2 evidence: a call for adopting standardsMeredith Y Smith, Priya Bahri, James A Gaudino, Jr,, Rafael S Moreira, Gregory M Danyluk, Sheila L Palevsky. International Journal of Epidemiology, https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyab128
Published: 28 June 2021