Editoriali - 18/04/2023
The Italian Association of Epidemiology (AIE): how we started it and my hopes for its future
Associazione italiana di epidemiologia (AIE): come l’abbiamo costituita e le mie speranze per il futuro dell’associazione
This article is dedicated to the memory of Piero Morosini and Luigi Dardanoni, and is based on a keynote lecture at the “AIE-Youth section” meeting in Milan, November 22nd, 2022
The Italian Association of Epidemiology (Associazione Italiana di Epidemiologia, AIE)1 was established in the mid-1970s, a time when epidemiology in the Western world had undergone a substantial shift in research contents, emphasis having moved from communicable diseases to the raising waves of non-comm…