Francis P. Boscoe

Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
and Research Scientist, New York State Cancer Registry

518-474-2255, fpb01@health.state.ny.us


EPI 621 (GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND PUBLIC HEALTH) – Spring 2010

Co-instructors: Tom Talbot (tot01@health.state.ny.us), Glen Johnson (gdj01@health.state.ny.us)

GIS Day Director: Mike Zdeb (msz03@albany.edu)

SYLLABUS

READINGS

 

           

For 1/21:

 

Koch T, Denike K. Crediting his critics’ concerns: remaking John Snow’s map of Broad Street cholera, 1854. Social Science and

Medicine 2009; 69(8): 1246-1251.

 

For 1/26:

 

Gould P. “Skiing with Euler at Beaver Creek” in Becoming a Geographer, Syracuse University Press, 2000. pp. 176-184.

 

For 1/28:

 

Lozano-Fuentes et al. Use of Google Earth to Strengthen Public Health Capacity and Facilitate Management of Vector-Borne Diseases in

Resource-Poor Environments. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2008; 86(9): 718-725.

 

For 2/2:

 

None

 

For 2/4:

 

Kamadjeu R. Tracking the polio virus down the Congo River: a case study on the use of Google Earth in public health planning and mapping.

 Int J Health Geographics 2009: 8:4.

 

For 2/9:

           

                        Harrower M, Brewer CA. ColorBrewer.org: An Online Tool for Selecting Colour Schemes for Maps. The Cartographic Journal 2003;

40(1) 27-37.

 

           

LECTURE NOTES

 

          History of Disease Mapping, 1/21

            Intro to GIS, 1/26

          Data sources and data quality, 2/2

            Cartographic design principles, 2/9

           

 

LABS

Lab 1 – Google Earth

            Slides

            Handout, Part 1

            Handout, Part 2

            Chetumal infrastructure

            Chetumal dengue cases

            Chetumal dengue cases & oviposition traps

Lab 2 – MapInfo

 

            Lab 3 – ArcGIS

 

            Lab 4 Geocoding

 

Lab 5 – Spatial pattern analysis

 

Lab 6 – Image analysis

           

                       

LINKS

 

SaTScan User Guide

            2007 GIS Day presentations

            2008 GIS Day presentations

            2009 GIS Day presentations

 

 

LINKS TO 2009 GIS DAY SPEAKERS

 

Ellen Cromley, The Institute for Community Research

 

Molly E. Brown, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

 

Wayne Meyers, Pennsylvania State University

 

Deborah Balk, Baruch College, CUNY

 

Jared Aldstadt, University at Buffalo

 

Raoul Kamadjeu, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention