Public Health Gis News and Information

By Environmental Protection Agency

Book Id: WPLBN0000123888
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 1.1 MB
Reproduction Date: 2007

Title:	Public Health Gis News and Information
Author:	Environmental Protection Agency
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Language:	English
Subject:	Ecology, Natural resource issues, Environemtal protection
Collections:	Environmental Awareness Library Collection
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Publisher:	United States Environmental Protection Agency


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Description
Excerpt: A. General News and Training Opportunities: 1. Editor: In case you missed it, the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Winter Meeting was held in Washington, DC, February 10-11, 2005. It was officially a ?Congressional Breakfast?, conducted in the Hart Senate Office Building, and provided a timely forum for UCGIS presentations to interested congressional staffers. It included the following presentations: ?West Nile Virus: Eco-epidemiology of Disease Emergence in Urban Areas,? Marilyn Ruiz, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Illinois; ?Using GIS to Eliminate Disparities in African American Infant Mortality,? Andrew Curtis, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University; ?Informing Public Health Policy through Geographic Science: Examples from Emerging Infections and Disaster Management,? Charles Branas and Joshua Metlay, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; ?Linking Health Encounter Data with Environmental Data- a Demonstration Project in Carroll County, Iowa,? Gerard Rushton, Department of Geography, University of Iowa, ?Protecting Public Health and Food Supplies: GIScience Research for Understanding Plant, Animal and Human Biohazard Interactions,? Eric Bernard, Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional and Community Planning, Kansas State University; and, ?Arsenic in Drinking Water and Bladder Cancer in Southeastern Michigan,? Jerome Nriagu, School of Public Health, University of Mic