ANNOUNCING:
DISEASE MAPPING AND RISK ASSESSMENT FOR PUBLICH HEALTH
a two day course
This course is designed to provide an introduction to the area of disease
mapping and risk assessment in applications to Public Health and Epidemiology.
The course consists of sessions dealing with:
Basic concepts of disease mapping
Ecological Analysis
Disease cluster assessment
Risk assessment around health hazards
The emphasis in the course will be practical and
participants will be involved in tutorials with the DISMAPWIN mapping package.
In addition, a review and demonstration of GIS tools for disease mapping
will be provided. A novel feature of the course will be the group examination
of a case study.
The course is being presented by Dr Andrew B. Lawson (university of Aberdeen)
and Dr Fiona L. R. Williams (Univesrity of Dundee).
Dr Lawson is a World Health Organisation (WHO) advisor on Disease Mapping
and recently organised with the WHO an International workshop
on this topic which has led to an edited volume (available with the course).
Dr Williams has extensive experience within environmental epidemiology,
and in particular, the analysis of putative health hazards.
This course, in different forms, has been successfully run previously
in University of Aberdeen, Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium
and at the ISCB annual conference Dundee 1998.
The course is intended for epidemiologists and public health workers who
need to analyse geographical disease incidence. In addition, the course may
be of interest to statisticians or geographers and planners who deal with
spatial disease data. Some statistical/epidemiological background would
be beneficial but is not essential.
Date: 21st-22nd June 2000
venue: King's College Conference Centre
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen
Accomodation will be available within the conference centre
Included within the cost of the course is a discounted copy of
the Wiley/WHO volume 'Disease Mapping and Risk Assessment for Public
Health' Lawson, A. B., Biggeri, A.,Boehning, D., Lesaffre, E., Viel, J-F.
and Bertollini, R.(eds) (1999)
Cost (including discounted book)
: £495, £395 (academic)
Further details of the course can be obtained from Ms Nikki Musgrave
Vocational Training Unit, University of Aberdeen, Regent Walk , Aberdeen
AB24 3FX phone: 01224-272431, fax: 01224-272079
email: [log in to unmask]
For informal technical queries please contact Dr Lawson
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Dr Andrew B. Lawson
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen
AB24 3UE
UK
phone: 44-1224-272615 (voice mail)
fax: 44-1224-272607
email: [log in to unmask]
web page:
www.maths.abdn.ac.uk/maths/department/staff/pages/lawson_a.html
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