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Just Published: I-HEAT Feasibility Assessment Report

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Feasibility Assessment Report: Internet-based Heat Evaluation and Assessment Tool (I-HEAT) Authors: Susan Maxwell (PI), Robert Rommel, Geoffrey Jacquez – BioMedware, Inc.; Marie O’Neill, Kathryn Conlon, Natalie Sampson – University of Michigan School of Public Health Over the past two decades … Continue reading

Dr. Geoffrey Jacquez appointed to the Cooperative Research Centres Spatial Information (CRCSI) Health Program Scientific Panel.

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Health Program Board has appointed Dr. Jacquez to a 2-year term as Co-Science Director of the CRCSI Health Program. Continue reading

Advancing the use of GIS and spacial analysis to improve public health: First Annual Western New York GIS Day

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Western New York GIS day advances the use of GIS and spatial analysis to improve public health, health services, health planning and health research. Continue reading

Dr. Goovaerts’ prostate cancer research work recognized by the editors of UroToday

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Dr. Goovaerts’ journal article abstract, The impact of place and time on the proportion of late-stage diagnosis: The case of prostate cancer in Florida, 1981-2007, has been chosen for publication on the website UroToday.com.

Announcing the release of SpaceStat 3.6 and Jacquez’ Q, our new case-control method

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With our latest release, we’ve included support for our new Q-statistic, appropriately named Jacquez’ Q.  Q-statistics were developed for evaluating space-time clustering in residential histories of case-control data (Jacquez et al., 2006). Representing residential histories as space-time threads (those locations where people … Continue reading

Video: Geohealth Analysis and Data Visualization: Assessing and demonstrating relationships between dynamic local environments and human health outcomes.

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This presentation was given by Dr. Geoffrey Jacquez at the Population Health Data Analysis Conference on February 8th, 2012: Geohealth Analysis and Data Visualization: Assessing and demonstrating relationships between dynamic local environments and human health outcomes. The Conference was organized … Continue reading

Directions Magazine profile of Geoffrey Jacquez, President, BioMedware

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From Directions Magazine:  Meet Your Colleagues: Geoffrey Jacquez Ph.D. “This week, we introduce you to Geoffrey Jacquez, president of BioMedware, whose geohealth-focused scientific methods and software tools are used by public health departments around the globe.” Read more.

Dr. Pierre Goovaerts at Colloque Environnement-Santé video (en français)

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WebTV video of the plenary address given at the Colloque Environnement-Santé.

BioMedware: November 2011 Newsletter

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Announcing SpaceStat 3.5 with Geostatistical Discretization and Deconvolution Our new SpaceStat release expands support for kriging methods by adding discretization and deconvolution, providing the ability to perform kriging from one geography to another.  We’ve also introduced a new graph type, the … Continue reading

Interview with Pierre Goovaerts (en français)

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An Interview with Pierre Goovaerts, Chief Scientist at BioMedware, on the occasion of his plenary address “The Role of GIS, Geostatistics and Cancer Atlases in Medical Geography & Environmental Epidemiology” delivered during the symposium “Environment and Health”.

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