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 18 - 19th , and 21st - 22nd 2013
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 18th – 19th and the
ABDM course will run on March 21st – 22nd 2013.
(There will also be a half day open revision tutorial Wednesday 20th in
the PM.)
Both spatial and spatio-temporal analyses using WinBUGS and INLA 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, the 2nd Edition of the volume
*Bayesian Disease Mapping* will be a course text for the IBDM course,
and is included in the IBDM course fee.
*REGISTRATION INFORMATION*
Detailed information and registration form is available from
http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/dbe/BDM/bdmfiles/IBDM_ABDM_flier_for_MARCH2013_AL.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
E-mail to June Watson at [log in to unmask]
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