Francis P. Boscoe

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

518-473-5951, fpb01@health.state.ny.us

EPI 621 (GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND PUBLIC HEALTH)

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

READING LIST (updated April 7)

 

NOTES

           

History of health mapping (1/24)

            Intro to GIS (1/29)

            Cartographic design (2/5)

            Data sources and data quality (2/12)

            Data smoothing/spatial regression (2/26)

            Cluster detection (3/4)

            Geocoding (3/11)

            GIS and environmental health (4/1)

            GIS and infectious disease (4/8)

            GIS and health services (4/15)

            GIS and vector-borne disease (4/22)

 

LABS

 

Lab 1 – Intro to MapInfo

                        Part 1

                        Part 2

                        Assignment

            Lab 2 – Intro to ArcGIS

                        Part 1

                        Part 2

                        Assignment

            Lab 3 – Spatial pattern analysis

            Lab 4 – Geocoding

            Lab 5 – Image analysis

            Lab 6 – GPS

                         Handout

                         Assignment

                         Class GPS points

                       

LINKS

 

SaTScan User Guide

            2007 GIS Day presentations

            2008 GIS Day presentations

            Washington County poverty rates (for lab 2)