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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. 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/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 [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is for discussion of modelling issues and the BUGS software. For help with crashes and error messages, first mail [log in to unmask] To mail the BUGS list, mail to [log in to unmask] Before mailing, please check the archive at www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/bugs.html Please do not mail attachments to the list. To leave the BUGS list, send LEAVE BUGS to [log in to unmask] If this fails, mail [log in to unmask], NOT the whole list