Some places still available
on these short courses:
Introduction to Bayesian Disease Mapping (IBDM)
Bayesian Disease Mapping with INLA (BDMI)
Advanced Bayesian Disease Mapping (ABDM)
**Offering of Introductory and Advanced BDM courses and BDM with
INLA in MUSC, Charleston, SC, USA**
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 10th - 11th, the BDMI course
will run on March 12th
and the ABDM course will run on March 13th - 14th 2014.
The BDMI course provides a hands-on introduction to spatial
health modeling with INLA,
while more advanced INLA examples are included in the ABDM
course.
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 (Department of Public Health
Sciences, 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/phs/BDM/bdmfiles/flier%20for%20March2014_FINAL.pdf
Phone registration to:
Department of Public Health Sciences
(843) 876-1578
Fax registration form to:
Department of Public Health Sciences
(843) 792-6000
Booking Enquiries can be made by
E-mail to June Watson at
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