April 2013

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Apr 1

Dr. Pierre Goovaerts is presenting the talk "Geostatistics in Practice" at the Middle East Technical University

Location: Ankara, Turkey

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Apr 3

Dr. Geoffrey Jacquez is participating in the Vespucci Institute on Geographic Information Science

Location: Catalina (Island), California

The Vespucci Initiative for the Advancement of Geographic Information Science is announcing the Vespucci Institute on Geographic Information Science:  Synthesizing Health, Space and Time


Facilitators: Myles Cockburn (USC), Geoffrey Jacquez (SUNY-Buffalo), Martin Raubal (ETH Zürich), and John Wilson (USC)

Invited participants include:

  • David Balshaw, Emerging Technologies, Bioengineering, and Systems Biology Program, NIEHS
  • Daniel Janies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  • Jean Luc Neptune, Health 2.0
  • Todd Park, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • Doug Richardson, Association of American Geographers
  • Ben Sawyer, Games for Health

Aims & Scope

Celebrating the fifth centenary of Vespucci's discoveries, the Vespucci Initiative recaptures his spirit of multi-disciplinary intellectual inquiry to explore new frontiers of knowledge and new territories. To that end it organizes and conducts a range of research and teaching activities, bringing together senior scientists and promising young researchers from around the world. This unique interdisciplinary mix creates what has been called the Medici Effect and perhaps it is no coincidence that most Vespucci institutes have been held in Florence, Italy to date! All of the participants share a special interest in the locational aspects of societal challenges. These aspects are being studied and exploited in the emerging field of Geographic Information Science and are being implemented within the GIS, GPS, Location Based Services (LBS) and related industries (see http://www.giscience.org, http://www.agile-online.org, http://www.ucgis.org).

The workshops and other events sponsored by the Vespucci Initiative are open to post-graduate researchers at all stages of their careers in the academic, public, not-for-profit, and private sectors, selected on a competitive basis through an open call for expression of interest.

The 2013 Vespucci Synthesizing Health, Space, and Time Institute marks a new beginning given both its location and timing. This will be the first Vespucci workshop to be held outside Europe and the first to be scheduled in the northern hemisphere spring season. It provides an inspiring and productive opportunity for peer-to-peer interaction with leading international experts in the field. Participants will:

  • Learn the state of the art in health geography
  • Understand and explore tomorrow's research and market challenges
  • Be challenged to think laterally outside their daily work setting
  • Present their own work and ideas to receive feedback and advice
  • Get one-on-one access to experts in a relaxed and productive setting
  • Improve presentation and team work skills
  • Return home refreshed and newly motivated

The Vespucci format is multi-faceted and will include:

  • Topical presentations and group projects
  • Analyses of case studies
  • Discussions and critiques of methodology
  • Skill-development sessions
  • Opportunities for working on
    • joint publications in international journals
    • project proposals to funding agencies or management
    • business plans

The Spring Institute is a not-for-profit activity of the Spatial Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California (this year’s local host).

Who should apply?

  • University researchers and faculty at all levels, from health as well as spatial disciplines
  • Project managers and researchers in industry in the not-for-profit and government sectors
  • Developers of LBS, SDI, and e-Government solutions 

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Apr 3

Dr. Pierre Goovaerts is conducting the seminar titled "The role of Geostatistics in Environmental Epidemiology"

Location: INERIS Paris, France

Abstract

Since its development in the mining industry, geostatistics has emerged as the primary tool for spatial data analysis in various fields, ranging from earth and atmospheric sciences, to agriculture, soil science, environmental studies, and more recently exposure assessment. In the last few years, these tools have been tailored to the field of medical geography or spatial epidemiology, which is concerned with the study of spatial patterns of disease incidence and mortality and the identification of potential “causes” of disease, such as environmental exposure or socio-demographic factor.

This seminar will provide an overview of geostatistical methods available for the analysis of environmental and health data both at the individual-level and aggregated. It will also introduce a suite of techniques for the visualization and analysis of time series of health data, including 3D display of health outcomes in a combined time and geography space, binomial kriging to filter noise in the data, joinpoint regression analysis to model time trends, and hierarchical cluster analysis to classify geographical units according to their temporal trends.

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Apr 9
8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Dr. Geoffrey Jacquez is presenting at the AAG Annual Meeting: Encryption for confidentiality protection in geospatial studies with human subjects

Location: Los Angeles, California
Dr. Geoffrey Jacquez - sessions at the 2013 AAG meeting:

Encryption for confidentiality protection in geospatial studies with human subjects -- Chair, Organizer, Presenter
Geo-Health Research at NIH: Issues in modelling population based cancer statistics -- Discussant
Geographies of Obesity I: Causes, Rates, and Interventions -- Chair

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Apr 10
8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Dr. Geoffrey Jacquez is presenting at the AAG Annual Meeting: Encryption for confidentiality protection in geospatial studies with human subjects

Location: Los Angeles, California
Dr. Geoffrey Jacquez - sessions at the 2013 AAG meeting:

Encryption for confidentiality protection in geospatial studies with human subjects -- Chair, Organizer, Presenter
Geo-Health Research at NIH: Issues in modelling population based cancer statistics -- Discussant
Geographies of Obesity I: Causes, Rates, and Interventions -- Chair

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Apr 10

Dr. Geoffrey Jacquez, Discussant at AAG: Geo-Health Research at NIH-Issues in modelling population based cancer statistics

Location: Los Angeles, California

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has a long history of developing geospatial methods for calculating cancer surveillance statistics, and for the dissemination and use of these statistics in geospatial research. The methods developed by the NCI are often applicable to many other health concerns besides cancer. This session will include a number of papers describing recent NCI-initiated research work on issues in calculating and modelling population based cancer statistics.

Organizers: Dave Stinchcomb, Zaria Tatalovich

Chair: Zaria Tatalovich

Participants: Alicia Rolin, A Spatial and Statistical Method to Enable Computation of Cancer Statistics at the Congressional District Level

Li Zhu, Confidence Intervals for Ranked Age-adjusted Rates across Geographic Units

Discussants: Gerard Rushton and Geoffrey Jacquez

Sponsorships: Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group and Spatial Analysis and Modeling Specialty Group

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Apr 11
8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Dr. Geoffrey Jacquez is presenting at the AAG Annual Meeting: Encryption for confidentiality protection in geospatial studies with human subjects

Location: Los Angeles, California
Dr. Geoffrey Jacquez - sessions at the 2013 AAG meeting:

Encryption for confidentiality protection in geospatial studies with human subjects -- Chair, Organizer, Presenter
Geo-Health Research at NIH: Issues in modelling population based cancer statistics -- Discussant
Geographies of Obesity I: Causes, Rates, and Interventions -- Chair

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Apr 12
8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Dr. Geoffrey Jacquez is presenting at the AAG Annual Meeting: Encryption for confidentiality protection in geospatial studies with human subjects

Location: Los Angeles, California
Dr. Geoffrey Jacquez - sessions at the 2013 AAG meeting:

Encryption for confidentiality protection in geospatial studies with human subjects -- Chair, Organizer, Presenter
Geo-Health Research at NIH: Issues in modelling population based cancer statistics -- Discussant
Geographies of Obesity I: Causes, Rates, and Interventions -- Chair

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Apr 13
8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Dr. Geoffrey Jacquez is presenting at the AAG Annual Meeting: Encryption for confidentiality protection in geospatial studies with human subjects

Location: Los Angeles, California
Dr. Geoffrey Jacquez - sessions at the 2013 AAG meeting:

Encryption for confidentiality protection in geospatial studies with human subjects -- Chair, Organizer, Presenter
Geo-Health Research at NIH: Issues in modelling population based cancer statistics -- Discussant
Geographies of Obesity I: Causes, Rates, and Interventions -- Chair

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Apr 20

Dr. Geoffrey Jacquez is attending the Master's Level Graduate Research Conference

Location: The College at Brockport, Brockport, NY

The Master's Level Graduate Research Conference is open to the public and will feature work by hundreds of master’s level students across the disciplines from Brockport and other universities throughout New York, neighboring states, and nearby Canada.

These students will present original research and artistic endeavors in poster sessions, oral presentations, and creative performances. In addition to a luncheon and keynote presentation, there will be seminars for students on career development and doctoral study preparation and workshops for visiting faculty on government and foundation grant opportunities.

 

 

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Apr 20

Dr. Geoffrey Jacquez is attending the 2013 Master's Level Graduate Research Conference

Location: College at Brockport, State University of New York

Title: Evaluation of a Wearable Open Source Sensor Technology for Spatiotemporally Referenced Data Acquisition
Scheduled for: 2:15 PM (Session III)
Session chair: Kim Myers, The College at Brockport SUNY
http://www.brockport.edu/gradconf/2013/schedule/display.php?id=356

The schedule, directions to campus, and accommodation information
have been posted online at http://www.brockport.edu/gradconf/2013/

On the conference website you will also find very helpful tips for presenters, with detailed information about how to prepare your poster, oral presentation or performance. In addition, there are helpful tips for how to get the most of your participation in the Conference.

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Apr 23

Dr. Geoffrey Jacquez participated in the GSN Round Table: International health research collaboration

Location: Sweden

Funding into international joint innovation and research projects for 10 years was the focus of a Global Spatial Network Round Table Meeting in Sweden. Future Position X (FPX) will submit the funding proposal to the Swedish government in May. The Round Table meeting further developed Sweden’s Geo Health Innovation Strategy, which will become part of the proposal.

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