Thomas O. Talbot

Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Chief, Environmental Health Surveillance Section

Center for Environmental Health

NYS Department of Health

518-402-7986, tot01@health.state.ny.us

 

GIS and Public Health Course – Spring Semester 2009

    Lectures

 

 

          Geocoding

                   Lecture

                   Readings

                             Cromley EK and McLaferty Chapter 2 Spatial Data in GIS and Public Health. 2002

                             Cromley EK and McLaferty Chapter 3 Spatial Databases for Public Health in GIS and Public Health. 2002

                             Cayo MR and Talbot TO. Positional error in automated geocoding of residential addresses

                   Geocoding Lab    

 

          Cluster Detection and Spatial Aggregation

                    Lecture

                    Readings

                             Cromley EK and McLaferty Chapter 5 Analyzing Spatial Clustering of Health Events in GIS and Public Health. 2002

                   Lab

 

          GIS and Environmental Health

                    Lecture

                    Readings

                             Cromley EK and McLaferty Chapter 6 Analyzing Environmental Hazards in GIS and Public Health. 2002

 

          Infectious and Vector-borne Disease

                   Lecture

                   Readings

                            

Cromley EK and McLaferty Chapter 7 Analyzing the Risk and Spread of Infectious Diseases. 2002

                            

Cromley EK and McLaferty Chapter 8 Exploring the Ecology of Vector-Borne Diseases in GIS and Public Health. 2002

 

Craig MH, Sharp BL, Mabaso MLH, Kleinschmidt I Developing a spatial-statistical model and map of historical malaria prevalence in Botswana using a staged variable selection procedure.

 International Journal of Health Geographics 2007, 6:44 (24 September 2007)

http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/pdf/1476-072X-6-44.pdf