Announcing a Two-Day Course Sequence:
Introduction to Bayesian Disease Mapping (IBDM)
Advanced Bayesian Disease Mapping (ABDM)
**The first offering of both Introductory and Advanced BDM courses in
MUSC, Charleston, SC, USA**
March 14 - 15th , and 17th -18th 2011
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 14th – 15th and the
ABDM course will run on March 17th – 18th 2011.
The IBDM two-day course consists of sessions dealing with:
*DAY 1*
· Basic concepts of Bayesian methods and disease mapping
· Bayesian computation and MCMC
· Basic R and WinBUGS use
· Demonstration of risk estimation and cluster detection using
WinBUGS
*DAY 2*
· Hands-on with simple WinBUGS models: Poisson-gamma;
convolution models for risk estimation
· Ecological analysis, cluster models and space-time analysis
· Infectious disease models and veterinary data
* *
This is designed for those who want to cover more advanced mapping
methods, and includes ecological analysis and the use of WinBUGS software.
The course will include theoretical input, but also practical elements
and participants will be involved hands-on in the use of R and WinBUGS
in disease mapping applications. Both human and veterinary examples will
be covered in the course as well as simple infectious disease space-time
modelling. Examples will range over congenital anomaly birth data,
influenza in South Carolina, foot-and-mouth disease in the UK and oral
cancer in Georgia.
The ABDM course consists of :
*DAY 1 Spatial topics*
· Spatial models and simple variants: convolution, proper CAR,
full MVN
· Special application: Case event modelling
Special applications: sparse count data: zip and factorial
regression
· Special applications: latent structure (L&C and mixtures)
· Spatial survival modelling
*DAY 2 Measurement Error, Multivariate and Spatio-temporal modelling topics*
· Measurement error, SEMS and Joint modelling. CPO and pseudo
Bayes factor
· Multiple disease analysis
· Basic ST models: Bernardinelli, Knorr-Held, Waller; seasonal
effects
· ST Kalman-filtering
· Clustering in ST data; surveillance and Infectious disease models
* *
This is designed for those who want to cover advanced BDM methods, and
includes advanced use of WinBUGS. The course will include theoretical
input, but also practical elements and participants will be involved
hands-on in the use of R and WinBUGS in disease mapping applications.
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. A copy of
the book is included in the course fee for that course only.
*Who should attend*
The courses are intended for epidemiologists and public health workers
who need to analyse geographical disease incidence. In addition, the
courses 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.
*Why attend*
Participants will gain an in-depth understanding of the basic issues,
methods and techniques used in the analysis of spatial health data using
a Bayesian approach. They will gain insight into the detailed analysis
of practical problems in risk estimation and cluster detection. The
course is presented by a leading researcher in the field of disease
mapping and spatial epidemiology.
*course fees*
IBDM Two-day Course - $500.00
Two-day course fee includes comprehensive course notes, lunch,
refreshments and a copy of /Bayesian Disease Mapping: Hierarchical
Modeling in Spatial Epidemiology,/ Lawson, A. B., (2009), CRC press, New
York.
ABDM Two-day Course - $500.00
Two-day course fee includes comprehensive course notes, lunch, and
refreshments.
Joint booking of both courses in the sequence is discounted to $800
*Attendees must bring a laptop with R and WinBUGS 1.4.3 software
preloaded*. Datasets will be provided. R and WinBUGS software can be
downloaded from the following websites: http://cran.wustl.edu
<http://cran.wustl.edu/> and/or www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/bugs
<http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/bugs>
*VENUE*
The courses will take place on the campus of the Medical University of
South Carolina, Division of Biostatistics & Epidemiology, Room 301, 135
Cannon Street, Charleston, South Carolina.
*AREA ACCOMODATIONS:*
Charleston Marriott Hotel
170 Lockwood Boulevard
Charleston, SC 29403
(843)723-3000/(800)968-3569
www.marriott.com/chsmc <http://www.marriott.com/chsmc>
Comfort Inn
144 Bee Street
Charleston, SC 29401
(843)577-2224
Holiday Inn Historic District
125 Calhoun Street
Charleston, SC 29401
(843)805-7900 Phone
http://www.charlestonhotel.com/
The Courtyard by Marriott
35 Lockwood Drive
Charleston, SC 29401
(843) 722-7229
Additional information on Charleston and area hotel accommodations may
be found at www.charlestoncvb.com <http://www.charlestoncvb.com/>.
Download a campus map at www.musc.edu <http://www.musc.edu/>.
*PARKING:*
If you plan to drive to Charleston and to campus, please contact June
Watson (843-876-1578 or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>)
for information on parking. Parking is limited in downtown Charleston.
Parking is available in the President Street parking garage (corner of
Cannon/Bee/President Streets) where a daily visitor pass costs $5. The
garage is about 200 yds from the course venue.
*REGISTRATION INFORMATION*
The form is available from
http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/dbe/BDM/bdmfiles/Combined%20courses-March%202011.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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