The Asia Cohort Consortium

ACC Meetings

January, 2026 Working Group Meeting

ACC WG at JEA/IEAWPR2026

Date/Time: January 30th, 2026 (7:30am-8:50am JST)
Venue: Dejima Messe Nagasaki, 1F Room105
           4-1, Onouemachi, Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
             (
about 1 minute walk, directly connected, from west exit (Inasa exit) of Nagasaki station)

Hybrid: The meeting will be hybrid. The registered participants will receive the online meeting link a week before the meeting.

*Please refer to the JEA/IEAWPR2026 website or Denima Messe website for further information on JEA/IEAWPR meeting and access/tranportation etc.

Registration, call for presentation

 Registration is available on the ACC members website. If you are willing to give a presentation in the meeting, please let us know via the registration.
 If you are not an ACC member but invited by a member or interested in ACC activity, please contact to the Coordinating Center at cc@asiacohort.org for the registration. 

Agenda

Registration (7:15-7:30)  

 



Part 1 Opening (7:30-7:40)
     

  • Opening remarks: Manami Inoue (onsite)
  • Updates from the ACC Coordinating Center: Shafiur Rahman (onsite)

◆ Announcements
- JEA/IEA Symposium 5: Digital Technology and AI in Epidemiological Research and Prevention: Aesun Shin (onsite)
- ACCGMM2026, JEA/IEA Symposium 7: Future Perspectives of International Epidemiologic Research: Insights from Global Collaborations in Cancer Research: Tomotaka Ugai (onsite)

Part 2: Working Group, Project updates (7:45-8:35)   

  • #102 Associations of dairy products with liver cancer incidence and mortality: Xuehong Zhang (online)
  • #101 Trends in Age at Menopause Across Birth Cohorts, Reproductive Working Group updates: Melissa Merritt (onsite)
  • Diet Working Group updates: Jung Eun Lee/Jeongseon Kim (onsite) 
  • #78 Impact of modifiable risk factors on cvd and cancer mortality in Asia and Europe: Thiess Lorenz (onsite)
  • GCVRC project (focusing on exposome and genetics): Thiess Lorenz (onsite)
  • #88 (95-100) Evaluation of the 2018 WCRF/AICR cancer prevention recommendations for use in Asia: Sarah K. Abe (onsite)

Part 3: Free Discussion (8:35-8:50) 

For members