6-9 OCTOBER 2025, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Program

The preliminary program gives an overview of the event. The program will be updated as soon as there are more details.

Sunday 5 October 2025: Pre-conference workshops

(separate registration necessary)

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10.00 – 16.00Workshop A: Quantitative Bias Analysis in Epidemiologic Data
10.00 – 14.00Workshop C: Shaping the Future of Climate and Occupational Health: Stakeholder Priorities and Research Agenda

Monday 6 October 2025

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12.00LunchFlame
12.45Chair: Susan Peters
Opening of EPICOH
Keynote by Thomas Rustemeyer: Allergic contact eczema and occupational exposure: a doctor-patient interaction
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14.00Parallel sessions 1See details
15.30Coffee breakFlame
16.00Parallel sessions 2See details
17.30-18.30Welcome receptionFlame

Tuesday 7 October 2025

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9.00Chair: Roel Vermeulen
Keynote by Bernice ScholtenEvidence synthesis: Can AI help?
Followed by 2 short plenary talks – selected abstracts
Data-oriented digital worker-twin simulation: A methodologically innovative analysis of stressed “workers” operating within constraints indicated by The Health and Occupation Research (THOR) dataset (Mark Johnson)
OPERAS: The development, evaluation, and impact of a decision support system for job coding (Mathijs Langezaal)
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10.30Coffee break & Poster viewingFlame
11.00Parallel sessions 3See details
12.30LunchFlame
13.30Panel discussion I: Between Rigor and Relevance: Rethinking risk of bias in occupational epidemiologyPolar
14.30Speed talks 1 & Poster presentationsSee details
15.30Coffee break & Poster viewingFlame
16.00Parallel sessions 4See details
17.00 – 17.45Chair: Laura Beane Freeman
Awards session
Lecture by recipient EPICOH Mid-Career award
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17.45-18.30EPICOH Business meetingFlash
19.30Early Career Researchers event (including drinks, no dinner provided)Kanaal 30

Wednesday 8 October 2025

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9.00Chair: Hans Kromhout
Keynote by Jason Glaser & William Martínez: From evidence synthesis to action: the case of occupational heat stress and chronic kidney disease
Followed by 2 short plenary talks – selected abstracts
Interventions to reduce respirable crystalline silica (RCS) exposure in New Zealand engineered stone benchtop workers (Amanda Eng)
The impact of climate change on occupational injuries: do temperature and outdoor pollution affect work-related accidents? (Roberta Pernetti)
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10.30Coffee break & Poster viewingFlame
11.00Parallel sessions 5See details
12.30LunchFlame
13.30Parallel sessions 6See details
14.30Speed talks 2 & Poster presentationsSee details
15.30Coffee break & Poster viewingFlame
16.00 – 17.30Panel discussion II: Positioning SciencePolar
19.30-23.00Conference dinnerRailway museum

Thursday October 9 2025

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8.30Meet the editors Flash
9.30Parallel sessions 7See details
10.30Coffee breakFlame
11.00Chair: Dick Heederik
Keynote by Paul Demers: The challenges and limitations of using epidemiology to establish occupational causality for chronic disease cases
Closing of EPICOH
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12.30LunchFlame
13.30 – 17.30Lexces symposium on Occupational Disease CompensationPolar

Map of Jaarbeurs Media Plaza