MGSG Bulletins

Two-Day course on Advanced Bayesian Disease Mapping: This meeting will be held on 10-11 December on the Medical University of South Carolina campus in Charleston, SC, USA. This course is designed for those who want to cover advanced BDM methods, and includes advanced use of Win BUGS and related R functions: R2WinBUGS, BRugs. The course will include theoretical input, but also practical elements and participants will be involved in hands-on use of R and WinBUGS in disease mapping applications. For full particulars, see:
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Prepublication Announcement and Discount:
GIS in Hospital & Healthcare Emergency Management
by Ric Skinner, GISP -- with a foreword by R. Tom Sizemore III, MD, Principal Deputy Director, Office of Preparedness & Emergency Operations, US Department of Health & Human Services, Washington, DC
Publisher: Taylor & Francis/CRC Press
Estimated publication early Spring 2010 @ US$99.95
20% Discount ($79.96) until 11/30/2009
Order by E-mail from: orders@crcpress.com

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Jacques May Thesis Prize

If you have recently written a thesis or dissertation in medical-health geography, and you would like to have your work considered for the Jacques May Prize, the Prize Coordinator or any member of the Board will accept submittals for the 2010 Award. Details
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The article, Medical Geography, from the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (July, 2009), is available in PDF form from the author, Robert Earickson. Simply send him an email request for your copy (go to "Read About Us" link on the home page, for email address).gratis
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The Environmental, Geographic, and Geological Sciences Department, Lehman College, City University of New York, is looking to fill a position for a departmental chair at either the full or associate professor rank, and are especially interested in someone with a background in Geography (environmental, urban health, or urban environmental) or environmental science, and who has Geographic Information Science as a research focus. Details.

InstantAtlas is an inexpensive, powerful data visualization and presentation tool. It enhances the value of data by making local demographic, epidemiological and health patterns easy to see and explore. No expertise in data publishing, delivery or mapping is needed - yet the results can be stunning and effective. See http://www.instantatlas.com/
Check out the Instant Atlas | Blog: http://instantatlas.wordpress.com/
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The six-volume International Encyclopedia of Public Health from (Elsevier). Available online and in print. Details
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Publishers currently soliciting manuscripts:
Bentham Open Access Journals
Epidemics
Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy
International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (IJAGR)

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