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 MARCH 2013.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