GIS DAY PAPERS

• 2011: GIS and Community Health Planning
  
  

  "All Public Health is Local" : The Community Perspective on GIS and Public Health
  Russell Kirby, University of South Florida
  
  

  Creating Community Health Indicators Using Spatial Smoothing, Aggregation and Masking
  Thomas Talbot, New York State Department of Health
  
  

  Global Geographies of Environmental Injustice and Health : Using GIS to Estimate Populations at Risk
  Florence Margai, Binghamton University-SUNY
  
  

  Effects of Material and Relational Deprivation on Community Health Status
  David Gregorio, University of Connecticut
  
  

  An Adolescent Sexual Health Community Needs Index: Solutions from Merging Spatial Statistics with GIS
  Glen Johnson, New York State Department of Health
  
  

  Dynamic GIS during Public Health Emergencies
  David Gruber, New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness
  
  

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• 2010: GIS and Public Health
  
  

  The Role of GIS in Advancing the Modern Health Transition in the U.S. (KEYNOTE)
  Gerard Rushton, University of Iowa
  
  

  Early Detection of Disease Outbreaks

  Influenza Disease Outbreak Detection Using Multiple Electronic Data Sources
  Martin Kulldorff, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
  
  

  Geographic, Socioeconomic, and Racial Disparities in Cancer Survival
  Kevin Henry, New Jersey Cancer Registry
  
  

  County Health Rankings: Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health
  Bridget Booske, Universty of Wisconsin
  
  

  An Overview of the American Community Survey
  Leonard Gaines, Empire State Development
  
  

  Connecting Data and Kids: The Power and Sinplocity of the Kids' Well-Being Indicators Clearinghouse (KWIC)
  Cate Bohn and Robin Miller, NYS Council on Children and Families Paul Marano, Cogent Technologies
  
  

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• 2009: GIS and International Health
  
  

  Developing Spatial Databases for Social Behavioral Health Research in Communities Outside the US (KEYNOTE)
  Ellen K. Cromley, The Institute for Community Research
  
  

  Climate Change and the Famine Early Warning System
  Molly E. Brown, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
  
  

  Tracking the Polio Virus down the Congo River: a Case Study on the Use of Google Earth in Public Health Planning and Mapping
  Raoul Kamadjeu, CDC
  
  

  A Spatial View of Urbanization: What Are the Implications for Understanding Climate Change, Poverty and Health?
  Deborah Balk, Baruch College/CUNY
  
  

  Spatial and Temporal Clustering of Dengue Virus Transmission in Thai Villages
  Jared Aldstadt, University at Buffalo
  
  

  Multi-factor Frameworks for Spatial Interaction Analysis: Coping with Complexity of Social/Environmental Issues--Health Plus
  Wayne Myers, Penn State
  
  

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• 2008: GIS and Infectious Disease
  
  

  Google Maps & Google Earth (KEYNOTE)
  Wansoo Im, Vertices LLC
  
  

  Tracking MRSA with GIS
  Abel Kho, Northwestern University
  
  

  Evaluation of Spatial Surveillance Methods
  Ken Kleinman, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
  
  

  GIS Analysis Utilized During a County-Wide Mass Vaccination Exercise
  Bob Brems, Zanesville/Muskingum (Ohio) County Health Department
  
  

  Use of Google Earth to Strengthen Public Health Capacity and Facilitate Management of Vector-Borne Diseases in Resource-Poor Environments
  Lars Eisen, Colorodo State University
  
  

  Using GIS to Forecast Infectious Disease Risk
  Gregory Glass, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  
  

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• 2007: GIS and Cancer
  
  NOTE: Presentations made in 2007 are available upon request from Mike Zdeb ([email protected])
  
  

  Spatial Analysis: Combining GIS and Statistical Tools (KEYNOTE)
  Linda Williams, StatNet Consulting (National Cancer Institute, retired)
  
  

  GIS-Based Research to Improve Services for Cancer Prevention, and Control
  Gerard Rushton, University of Iowa
  
  

  Examples of the Use of Geographic Patterns of Cancer Rates in Cancer Prevention and Control
  Ahmedin Jemal, American Cancer Society
  
  

  The Perils of Pareidolia: "Big" Problems and Some Solutions in Medical Geography
  Geoffrey M. Jacquez, BioMedware and University of Michigan
  
  

  Deprivation and Health: Using GIS to Characterize Social Environments and Cancer Risks
  David I. Gregorio, University of Connecticut
  
  

  Examining Geographic Patterns in Cancer Incidence Data and Environmental Factors in New Jersey
  Jerald A. Fagliano, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services