Brussels 2013 prize winners

Highest scoring abstract

Elaine Fuertes
School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Traffic-related air pollution as a risk factor for the development of childhood allergic diseases: the “Traffic, Asthma and Genetics” project
E Fuertes^1,2, E MacIntyre^1,2, E Melen^3,4, J Heinrich², M Kerkhof⁵, G Pershagen³, U Gehring⁶, A Kozyrskyj^7,8, M Chan-Yeung⁹, M Brauer^1,9, C Carlsten^1,9, the ‘Traffic, Asthma and Genetics’ Study Group
¹School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
²Institute Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Munich, Germany
³Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
⁴Sachs’ Children and Youth Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
⁵Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, GRIAC Institute, Groningen, The Netherlands
⁶Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
⁷Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, Women and Children’s Health Research Institute, Edmonton, Canada
⁸School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
⁹Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Ferenc Bojan Young Investigator Award

Aaron Reeves
Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Austerity’s health effects: a comparative analysis of European budgetary changes
A Reeves¹, S Basu², M McKee³, M Marmot⁴, D Stuckler^1,3
1Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
²Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA
³Department of Public Health and Policy, LSHTM, London, UK
⁴Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK

Best poster prize

Elena Azzolini
Post Graduate School of Public Health, University of Siena, Italy

Ab actu ad posse valet illatio? Epidemiological inferences from ex-voto