ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES RESEARCH CENTER
A National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Center of Excellence
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GIS & Public Health Workshop, May 21-22, 2007 On May 21-22, 2007, the EHSRC and the Department of Geography at the University of Iowa jointly held a workshop dedicated to improving the use of geographic information science in public health. The event drew 23 registrants from a wide range of disciplines, including occupational and environmental health, epidemiology, state/county departments of public health, medical and nursing informatics, library science, sociology, and pharmacy. Faculty organizers of this workshop included Naresh Kumar, Ph.D., Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Ph.D., and Gerard Rushton, Ph.D. The two-day workshop featured morning lectures on mapping and geocoding health data, access to health care methods, spatial clustering analysis in health outcomes and disease surveillance and modeling relationships between health outcomes and exposure to environmental contaminants. Lectures were also delivered on interpolation and aggregation of exposure data at different geographic scales, and methods of integrating exposure and health outcomes using geocoding and proximity analysis. The afternoons were devoted to lab sessions in which participants explored hands-on computer activities in geocoding, making density maps, data extraction and connection.
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