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FAZD Center co-organizes symposium on geospatial technologies and public health
The FAZD Center's director and two principal investigators participated as presenters and panelists at the 2007 Texas A&M University Symposium entitled "Geospatial Technologies and Public Health: Mapping disease, promoting health" held Nov. 17 in the George Bush Presidential Conference Center.
The symposium was co-organized by the FAZD Center, the Division of Research and Graduate Studies at Texas A&M, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Texas A&M Health Science Center and Texas Cooperative Extension.
The one-day symposium was devoted to discussing the recent developments in geospatial technologies and their applications in mapping disease and promoting health by leading researchers and government program officers.
Dr. Neville P. Clarke, the FAZD Center's director, served as a panelist on the plenary discussion "Geospatial Technologies and Public Health Research: Toward a new synergy."
Dr. David Hartley, a principal investigator from Georgetown University, discussed epidemiologic models of the exotic, zoonotic disease Rift Valley fever with a focus on methodologies for risk assessment.
Dr. Tim Carpenter, a principal investigator from the University of California, Davis, made a presentation entitled "Epidemiologic Model for Foot and Mouth Disease: Moving from premises to national model."