[Forum SIS] second call for contributed talks and posters for GEOMED 2015

[emanuela dreassi]

Dear colleagues,

this is the second call for contributed talks and posters for GEOMED 2015.
The meeting will be held on September 10-12, 2015 in Florence, Italy.

The meeting
GEOMED 2015 is the IX international, interdisciplinary conference on 
spatial statistics,
geographical epidemiology and geographical aspects of public health.
The conference aims to bring 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.

Meeting Venue
The meeting will take place at
Polo Biomedico e Tecnologico
NIC (Nuovo Ingresso Careggi)
Largo Brambilla, 3 Firenze
50134 - Firenze - Italia

Fees:
- 90 € early registration (before 30 June 2015)
- 130 € late registration
Social Dinner (25 €) not included on the fees

Abstract submission
Abstract and poster details will be available before December 31, 2014 
in the
website http://local.disia.unifi.it/geomed2015
Submissions will be closed on April 30, 2015.

Conference topics include:
Spatial Statistics
Spatial and space-time analyses of health data
GIS in Public Health
Health Geography and Spatial Data
Public Health Practice
Clustering and Public Health Surveillance
Disease Mapping
Spatial Statistics in Environmental Epidemiology
Spatial Point Processes and Applications
Ecological and Infection
Healthcare planning and policy in space and time
Disease mapping and cluster detection in Veterinary Epidemiology
Infectious disease

Important deadlines
December 31, 2014 - Abstract and poster details (template from website)
April 30, 2015 - Deadline for submission of abstracts 
(invited/contributed talk and poster)
June 1, 2015 - Notification of acceptance of contributed talk and poster
June 30, 2015 – Deadline for early registration

Special issues
Two special issues have been reserved for refereed papers from this meeting:
Statistical Methods in Medical Research (SMMR) and
Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Epidemiology (SSTE)

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

Contact adn further information
web http://local.disia.unifi.it/geomed2015
email geomed2015 a disia.unifi.it

Supported by
Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni “G. Parenti” (DiSIA)
Università di Firenze

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Emanuela Dreassi
Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni "G. Parenti" (DiSIA)
Università di Firenze
Viale Morgagni, 59 - I 50134 Firenze Italia
email dreassi a disia.unifi.it
skype emanuela.dreassi
tel (+39) 055 2751551
cel (+39) 3204209088
web http://local.disia.unifi.it/dreassi