(Registration is closed for this event)
Center for Public Health Preparedness
University at Albany
School of Public Health
Rensselaer, NY 12144
For additional information please contact Mike Zdeb or Janelle Armstrong-Brown
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GIS & Public Health Day
April 19 , 2005
The Center for Public Health Preparedness is sponsoring a GIS and Public Health Day at the University at Albany School of Public Health. The purpose of this day is to give an overview of Geographic Information Systems and its use in Public Health. The GIS and Public Health Day will be held on April 19, 2005 and consist of a day of presentations. The morning session will focus on statistical applications of GIS. Epidemiological uses of GIS will be focused on in the afternoon session. This will be followed by a morning of classes on April 20, 2005 ranging from an introduction to EPIMAP to advanced topics using ArcView products.
Presentations by :
- Gerard Rushton, PhD, University of Iowa
- Martin Kulldorff, PhD, Harvard Medical School
- Peter Rogerson, PhD, University at Buffalo
- Daniel Wartenberg, PhD, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
- Mary Ward, PhD, National Cancer Institute
- John Nuckols, PhD, Colorado State University
Schedule:
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 am – 10:00 am Keynote Speaker
Gerard Rushton, Ph.D.-University of Iowa
The Promise and the Challenges
of Applying Geographic Information Systems in Public Health
10:00 am – 11:00 am
Martin Kulldorff Ph.D. - Harvard
Medical School
Space-Time Scan Statistics for Disease Outbreak
Detection Surveillance
11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Peter Rogerson, Ph.D. - University at Buffalo
Statistical Tests for Spatial Clustering Using Case-Control Data
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Dan Wartenberg, Ph.D.-Robert Wood Johnson
Medical School
Population Mixing: A Possible Infectious Etiology for Childhood
Leukemia Clusters
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Mary Ward, Ph.D. - National Cancer
Institute
Applications of Geographic Information Systems in Epidemiology Studies
of Cancer: Pesticides, Nitrate, and Industrial Pollutants
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
J. R. Nuckols, Ph.D.- Colorado State
University
Exposure Assessment for Environmental Epidemiology: Integrating
Earth and Health Sciences
Registration:
New York and Vermont Local and State Health Department
Personnel: $10.00
All others: $50.00 (see below for a training announcement)
Registration cost includes a continental breakfast and lunch.
When:
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Where:
University at Albany School of Public Health
George Education Center Auditorium
University at Albany East Campus, Routes 9 & 20 (near Interstate 787 & downtown
Albany).
GIS & Public Health Day
GIS Training on Wednesday,
April 20, 2005
Epi Map Training Session - 9AM to Noon
Epi Map is part of the free Epi Info software package distributed by the Centers
for Disease Control. It has an 'ArcView Style' interface and is both a good introduction
to GIS functions and a useful, low-level GIS tool. Epi Map training is intended
for those with little or no experience in using GIS. A series of exercises will
introduce you to Epi Map capabilities using sample data provided with Epi Info,
plus New York State geographic and data files. The data files comprise both 2000
census and health-related data on births, deaths, and hospital discharges. Each
attendee will be provided with a CD containing shapefiles of various levels of
New York State geography (counties, Attendees are welcome to bring their own laptop computers to the class and follow
along with the exercises.
NOTE: The latest version of Epi Info should be loaded on your laptop prior to the class. It can be obtained by clicking here.
Instructor:
Mike Zdeb,
Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology
and Biostatistics
University at Albany School of Public Health
ArcView Training Session - 9AM to 11AM
A major purpose of GIS is to integrate layers of geographic data (e.g., census
data and
boundaries, streets, sources of environmental hazards, and features of land
use) and
analyze relationships between these layers. The functions involved in processing
geographic data are basic to the GIS and important skills for the researcher.
This
training session will review geoprocessing functions in ArcView 3.2 and apply
these
functions to real public health questions. Some of the geoprocessing functions
that will
be applied are dissolving features based on an attribute, merging layers
or themes,
clipping one theme based on another, intersecting two themes, union of two
themes,
assigning data by location (spatial join), and spatial queries, such as buffer
analyses.
There will also be a review of cartographic procedures and how to best represent
your
results on a map. During the training session there will be time to ask specific
questions
about the implementation of GIS in public health practice.
Instructor:
Sue Grady,
Research Scientist
Center for Environmental Health
New York State Department of Health
