[Forum SIS] GEOMED 2015 (first announcement): call for contributed talks and posters

[emanuela dreassi]

Dear Colleagues,

It is my pleasure to announce and invite you to the meeting GEOMED 2015.

The meeting will be held on September 11-12, 2015 in Florence, Italy.

GEOMED 2015 is the IX international, interdisciplinary conference on
spatial statistics, geographical epidemiology and the geographical aspects
of public health. The conference brings together statisticians,
geographers, epidemiologists, computer scientists, and public health
professionals to discuss methods of spatial analysis, as well as present
and debate the results of such analyses.

The first GEOMED conference was held in Rostock (Germany) in 1997 and
since then it has been held in Paris (France) in 1999 and 2001, Baltimore
(USA) in 2003, Cambridge (UK) in 2005, Charleston (USA) in 2009, Victoria
(Canada) in 2011 and Sheffield (UK) in 2013.

A selection of invited/contributed papers will be published in scientific
journals.

Important deadlines
September 30, 2014 - Grants and Fees details
December 31, 2014 - Abstract and poster details (template from website)
May 15, 2015 - Abstracts deadline (invited/contributed talks and posters) 
June 15, 2015 - Contribution acceptance

Scientific Committee
Annibale Biggeri - Università di Firenze (Italy)
Charmaine Dean - Western University (Canada)
Emanuela Dreassi - Università di Firenze (Italy)
Robert Haining - University of Cambridge (UK)
Andrew Lawson - Medical University of South Carolina (USA)
Ying C MacNab - University of British Columbia (Canada)
Ravi Maheswaran - University of Sheffield (UK)
Toshiro Tango - Center for Medical Statistics (Japan)
Maria Dolores Ugarte - Universidad Pública de Navarra (Spain)

Organizing Committee
Annibale Biggeri and Emanuela Dreassi
Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni “G. Parenti” (DiSIA)
 Università di Firenze


The meeting will be supported by
Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni “G. Parenti” (DiSIA)
 Università di Firenze

and

Impresa Sociale Epidemiologia & Prevenzione s.r.l.



Contact
web http://local.disia.unifi.it/geomed2015 (under construction)
email geomed2015 a disia.unifi.it




On behalf of the Scientific Committee,
Emanuela Dreassi


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Emanuela Dreassi
Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni "G. Parenti" DiSIA
Universita' di Firenze
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