Francis P. Boscoe Assistant Professor School of Public Health,SUNY Research Scientist NYS Department of Health Address: New York State Cancer Registry 536 Corning Tower Empire State Plaza Albany, NY 12237 Phone:(518) 474-2255 Fax: (518) 473-6789 E-mail:fpb01@health.state.ny.us

Education:

• 2000 Ph.D., Geography, Pennsylvania State University
• 1996 MA, Geography, Kent State University

Courses Taught:
EPI 621 - Geographic Information Systems and Public Health (spring semesters)

Research intrests
Spatial analysis, GIS, Cancer Epidemiology, Disease Registration, Epidemiologic methods, History of epidemics.

Selected Publications:

2007 F.P. Boscoe, C.C. McLaughlin and D.S. O'Brien. Geographic Information Systems: Analysis and Presentation of Cancer Registry Data. In Central Cancer Registries: Design, Management and Use. H.R. Menck, ed. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt. In press.

2007 C.C. McLaughlin, F.P. Boscoe. Effects of Randomization Methods for Permutation Tests on Statistical Inference in Disease Cluster Detection. Health and Place 13(2): in press.

2006 F.P. Boscoe, C.G. Sherman. On socioeconomic gradients in cancer registry data quality. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 60(6): 651.

2006 F.P. Boscoe and M.J. Schymura. Sunlight Exposure and Cancer Incidence and Mortality in the United States, 1993-2002. BMC Cancer 6: in press.

2005 F.P. Boscoe. Encyclopedia of New York State, Syracuse University Press. P. Eisenstadt, ed. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press. Ten entries including Upstate Water Supply and Petroleum and Natural Gas Industry.

2004 F.P. Boscoe, M.H. Ward and P. Reynolds. Current Practices in Spatial Analysis of Cancer Data: Data Characteristics and Data Sources for Geographic Studies of Cancer. International Journal of Health Geographics 3:28.

2004 F.P. Boscoe, B.A. Miller. Year 2000 Population Estimation Error and its Impact on 1991-1999 Cancer Rates. Professional Geographer 56(4): 516-529.

2003 F.P. Boscoe, C.C. McLaughlin, M.J. Schymura and C.L. Kielb. Visualization of the Spatial Scan Statistic Using Nested Circles. Health and Place 9(3): 273-277.

2003 F.P. Boscoe and L.W. Pickle. Choosing Geographic Units for Choropleth Rate Maps, with an Emphasis on Public Health Applications. Cartography and Geographic Information Science 30(3): 237-248.

2003 F.P. Boscoe. The Insanities of an Exalted Imagination: The Troubled First Geological Survey of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 127(3): 291-308.