Announcing a Two-Day Course Sequence:
Introduction to Bayesian Disease Mapping (IBDM)
Advanced Bayesian Disease Mapping (ABDM)
**Offering of both Introductory and Advanced BDM courses in
MUSC, Charleston, SC, USA**
March 12 - 13th , and 15th -16th 2012
Historic Charleston, South Carolina
*Course content*
These courses are designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to
the area of Bayesian disease mapping in applications to Public Health
and Epidemiology: The IBDM course will run on March 12th -- 13th and
the ABDM course will run on March 15th -- 16th 2011.
(There will also be a half day open revision tutorial Wednesday 14th in
the PM.)
Both spatial and spatio-temporal analyses will be considered. Examples
will range over childhood asthma data from Georgia, influenza in South
Carolina, foot-and-mouth disease in the UK and Ohio respiratory cancer.
*The speaker*
Professor Andrew B. Lawson (Division of Biostatistics & Epidemiology,
College of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina) is a World
Health Organization (WHO) advisor on Disease Mapping and organized
with the WHO an International workshop on this topic which has led to an
edited volume "Disease Mapping and Risk Assessment for Public Health".
He has published a number of books focused on disease mapping and
spatial epidemiology. In particular, a new volume entitled *Bayesian
Disease Mapping* will be a course text for the IBDM course.
*REGISTRATION INFORMATION*
Detailed information and registration form is available from
http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/dbe/docs/IBDM_ABDM_flier_for_MARCH2012.pdf
Phone registration to:
Division of Biostatistics & Epidemiology
(843) 876-1578
Fax registration form to:
Division of Biostatistics & Epidemiology
(843) 792-6000
Booking Enquiries can be made by
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