DIMACS Workshop on Applications of GIS Technology to
Environmental Public Health Tracking: Issues and Solutions
TBA
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
- Organizers:
- John Balmes, University of California at Berkeley
- Paul English, California Department of Health Services
- Ed Fitzgerald, University at Albany
- Len Flowers, New Mexico Department of Health
- Nick Jones, Johns Hopkins
- Sam Lefevre, Utah Department of Health
- Amy Monaco, National Cancer Institute
- Chris Paulu, Maine CDC
- Evelyn Talbot, University of Pittsburgh
- Tom Talbot, Vanderbilt University
- Doug Thompson, University of Southern Maine
- Dan Wartenberg, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, dew at eohsi.rutgers.edu
- LuAnn White, Tulane University
Presented under the auspices of the Special Focus
on Computational and Mathematical Epidemiology.
This workshop is jointly sponsored by:
- The UMDNJ Academic Partnership for Excellence in Environmental Public Health Tracking
- DIMACS
- The Center for Disease Control
A major goal of CDC's Environmental Public Health Tracking Program is
the development of a national network of health and environmental data
with analytic and visualization tools for rapid evaluation of specific
national or regional environmental health concerns. Geographic
information systems (GIS) offer researchers tools for such activities
including data storage, display and analysis using geographical
methods. These tools can be used for etiologic investigation of
spatial patterns of health outcomes and their risk factors. In this
workshop, we present and compare approaches for these GIS-based
methods in epidemiology. Session topics include:
- Smoothing, Modeling and Aggregation in Mapping (including Bayesian methods, Kriging and filtering)
- Understanding Spatial Models (including land use regression, spatial hierarrchical Bayes modeling, CMAC modeling)
- Cartography and Presentation Methods (including choosing display colors, setting class boundaries, and general design issues)
- Community Input and Participation in Environmental Health Mapping
- Contributed Posters on related topics
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