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GEOMED 2017 – “Deeper insight from big data and small areas”

Carla Oliveira 
Dear List,


The *Institute for Research and Innovation in Health (Instituto de
Investiga??o e Inova??o em Sa?de) *(i3S), is pleased to announce GEOMED
2017 ? ?Deeper insight from big data and small areas?. GEOMED 2017 is the X
international interdisciplinary conference on spatial statistics,
geographical epidemiology and geographical aspects of public health. This
conference will be held in Porto, Portugal, from 7 to 9 September 2017 and
aims to bring together statisticians, geographers, epidemiologists,
computer scientists and public health professionals to discuss spatial
and spatio-temporal methods in health studies.

The interdisciplinary mix of the invited speakers is designed to ensure
that the conference will be of interest to participants with a wide range
of different backgrounds.


We invite you to submit an abstract in any one of the topic areas  planned
for GEOMED 2017 which include: GIS in Public Health; Spatial Health
Surveillance; Spatial survival and registry data analysis; Clustering of
temporal trends in space-time disease mapping; Agent-based modeling;
Modifiable areal unit issues and methods; Social networks and spatial
epidemiology: tools, opportunities and challenges; Modelling
climate-sensitive disease; Places and health: implications for
understanding health in cities; Modelling and inference in infectious
disease epidemiology; The use of linked data in spatial epidemiology;
Joint Modelling with Spatial Variation; Health Applications of the Google
Earth Engine; Challenges and Advances in Spatio-Temporal Disease Modelling.


Important deadlines are:
April 15, 2017 - Deadline for submission of abstracts

May 25, 2017 - Notification of acceptance of contributed talk and poster

June 15, 2017 -Deadline for early registration


For more details, please visit the conference website at:
http://www.i3s.up.pt/geomed17/index.html


On behalf of the organizing committee, I very much look forward to
welcoming you to GEOMED 2017.