School of geospatial health

Under the auspices of the GnosisGIS Global Network on Geospatial Health, basic and advanced level GIS courses will be offered an a regularly scheduled basis at fixed sites where well equipped GIS laboratories are available on each continent. Additional 'portable' courses can be scheduled at nearly any location, for example as satellite course offerings of 3-4 days duration at scientific meetings. Together these represent a 'virtual campus' offering GIS courses to those interested in health applications of the geospatial sciences. Course content has been developed and sanctioned by the GnosisGIS short courses sub-committee. There are currently 5 permanent locations that have or are planning to offer courses regularly. Off-site courses can be scheduled by special arrangement. A standard course manual and GIS resource data CDROM's are provided.

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Bayesian Disease Mapping in Epidemiology and Public Health

8 - 19 August 2011 at Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute.

A course for researchers dealing with spatial data in epidemiology and public health.

Aims of the course
This 2-weeks course will provide a comprehensive introduction to Bayesian spatial modeling in public health and epidemiology. Participants will be introduced to the basics of Bayesian modeling and computation and they will learn how to model areal and geostatistical data for identifying significant covariates and for geographical prediction and mapping of a range of health-related outcomes.

Participants will be also introduced in Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in order to extract environmental predictors from satellite sources, process satellite data and map raw data as well as model-based predictions. The course will involve theory and computer practical exercises in R, Winbugs, IDRISI, and OpenGIS.

More information on the course here.