General Business Meetings

For further detail regarding the history and financial structure of the IEA, see series A/1, History and Constitution and series A/3/1, Executive Commitee Minutes.

1957-1990

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The first formal meeting of the International Corresponding Club (ICC) was held in London, 30 June - 1 July 1956, at which the first Business meeting of the ICC took place. Initially an informal study group of medically qualified men and women working in the field of social and preventive medicine, increasing numbers of correspondents representing departments from now 18 countries necessitated a more formal organisational and business structure.

The first General Business Meeting of the ICC was held on 6 September 1957 in Noorwijk, the Netherlands, at the organisation's first International Scientific Meeting, chaired by Dr. Robert Cruickshank, with attendees including co-founder Dr. John Pemberton, and Dr. Richard Doll. At a meeting in 1959, the constitution, membership, and control of the organisation was formalised, and the name of the ICC changed to the International Epidemiological Association (IEA).

The General Business Meetings follow the triennial administrative cycle of the Association: the constitution specifies that a General Business Meeting of active ordinary members is held every 3 years at the International Scientific Meeting (ISM). The business transacted includes Officer's reports, audited statement of accounts and the election of Officers and Council Members, whose term of Office extends from the end of that ISM until the end of the next.

A quorum for any Business Meeting is 10 per cent of all active ordinary members, with Motions passed by simple majority.

Between 1957 and 1990, there were 21 General Business Meetings in total.

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